Tale’ – Health

A Tale Of Four Cities: Wuhan, Seattle, New York, Chicago

A new study from Northwestern University in Chicago, available as an unreviewed pre-print, identifies three distinct strains of SARS-CoV-2 currently circulating in Chicago. The three strains, called clades, can be distinguished from one another by the sequence of viral RNA. The variant the authors call clade 2 was introduced into Chicago in mid-January 2020 by a… Read More »

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 3, Episode 5 Review: Don’t Trust Serena Joy

[Spoilers for The Handmaid’s Tale season three, episodes five,”Unknown Caller,” ahead.] This season of The Handmaid’s Tale would have you forget the past two years of its own show. In a new, more hopeful Gilead post-Nicole’s Canadian escape, Serena Joy (Yvonne Jaqueline Strzechowski) seems to have seen the light, striking up a dangerous understanding, dare… Read More »