The U.S. has recently taken a sharp turn toward “living with,” rather than trying to avoid, COVID-19. Masks are no longer advised indoors for Americans in most parts of the country, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and many mask and vaccine requirements have been repealed even in the most COVID-cautious parts of the country. In a poll conducted in March by Axios-Ipsos, 66% of Americans said they thought COVID-19 poses little or no risk.
It’s hard to blame people for relaxing a bit. For most vaccinated and boosted people, a case of COVID-19 is overwhelmingly unlikely to result in severe disease. But some experts say that the risk of Long COVID—the name for symptoms that last months or even more than a year after a COVID…
Conversion therapy—a practice aimed at changing someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity—has been widely discredited and is banned in 22 states and the District of Columbia. But more than 1,300 practitioners still offer conversion therapy in the U.S., according to a new report shared exclusively with TIME.
“It is shocking to still see so many different conversion therapy programs across the U.S., because all those programs are fraudulent,” says California Repคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. Ted Lieu, who in June introduced a bill to ban conversion therapy at the federal level. “There is no scientific or medical basis for conversion therapy. It is a huge sc…