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By DAVID BROOKS

Back in December I was clinging to hope – irrationally, but isn’t all hope irrational at heart? – that we would dodge the winter COVID surge. No such luck.As of Thursday, the New Hampshire Hospital Association says more people are in its beds with...

By DAVID BROOKS

New COVID vaccines have been approved but rollout remains slow, with few if any pharmacies in Concord having them available Tuesday.The SARS-CoV2 virus that causes COVID appears to be widespread in New Hampshire, as it is in much of the country....

By DAVID BROOKS

If New Hampshire is being hit by a summer surge in COVID cases being seen in parts of the country, as hinted by increased amounts of virus in our wastewater, it’s not sending people to the hospital.“As I’ve talked to hospital leaders … they certainly...

By DAVID BROOKS

The uncertainty caused by the arrival of COVID reduced births by a greater percentage in New Hampshire than any other state, according to estimates in a just-released study.The study by the Brookings Institution, based on data recently released by the...

By DAVID BROOKS

Next weekend marks four years since New Hampshire saw its first death from what was then called “the novel coronavirus,” and although COVID-19 isn’t taking many lives these days, the passage of time shows it has ushered us into an unhappy new normal...

By DAVID BROOKS

I went to a vaccine conference at Dartmouth last week to learn more about the most depressing piece of research I’ve ever encountered. Amazingly, I came away a tiny bit more optimistic.The ongoing research by Brendan Nyhan, a professor of government...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

PLAINFIELD — One day in this past May, Susan Kahn, a 77-year-old Plainfield resident, was unable to get up.Her husband, Chris Rollins, called 911. She was unconscious with heart palpitations and says there were no Upper Valley cardiologists available...

By DAVID BROOKS

Supplies of the updated COVID-19 vaccine have started to arrive in New Hampshire in anticipation of a fall increase in cases, and officials say anybody over the age of 6 months should get one.The updated vaccine, available from both Pfizer-BioNTech...

If you should make lemonade when life hands you lemons, what should you do when life hands your big project a pandemic lockdown?Make ventilation.“We had broken ground and one week later everything shut down. We literally put up a (construction) fence...

By DAVID BROOKS

You don’t want to hear this, I know, but there are signs that we’re headed for something of a COVID resurgence.On Thursday, the New Hampshire Hospital Association reported more COVID-19 patients than at any time since April. Alice Peck Day Hospital in...

By DAVID BROOKS

I think we’ve reached a turning point in COVID: I can’t fit all my vaccines on a single card any more.This realization came about when I got the Pfizer bivalent booster last week (I meet the over-65 age requirement, alas).It follows my Moderna...

By DAVID BROOKS

With Concord Hospital dropping a mask mandate that began three years ago, New Hampshire seeing much lower COVID-19 hospitalization and death rates and the national public health emergency ending in a month, it feels like the pandemic is finally behind...

By DAVID BROOKS

The pandemic is dead. Long live the endemic.Wishful thinking? No, more like a not-as-good-as-it-sounds prediction.The good part is that the Monitor’s COVID Tracker is prepared, at long last, to call the pandemic over in New Hampshire. Several factors...

By DAVID BROOKS

It has been three full years of pandemic-era carnage in New Hampshire.“Carnage” is a little strong, perhaps. It’s more like a slow, steady increase in the number of New Hampshire residents who die, day in and day out, since our first official COVID-19...

By DAVID BROOKS

Three times in 2022 it looked like I might be able to finally stop wearing that annoying face mask in public.In late February the number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in New Hampshire, which is the best metric for the spread of the disease,...

By TEDDY ROSENBLUTH

Methamphetamine is flooding into New Hampshire at alarming rates, overwhelming first responders and filling recovery programs.Jon DeLena, an agent at the New England field division of the Drug Enforcement Agency, said the new influx of methamphetamine...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

Dartmouth College freshman Elizabeth Reimer received an email May 19 from an assistant dean warning her of a looming deadline for a non-recording grade option. The administrator explained that she could withdraw from the course, a first-year seminar,...

By SCOTT MERRILL

As new cases of COVID-19 and hospitalizations continue to rise, the news that a vaccine will be available by the beginning of the year couldn’t have come at a better time for Granite Staters.Of course, for every bit of good news these days, many...

By DANICA KIRKA and LINDSEY BAHR

In the latest blow to the beleaguered film industry, the second-largest movie theater chain in the U.S. is temporarily shuttering its locations due to a lack of blockbusters on the calendar and major domestic markets like New York remaining...

By OLIVIA BURDETTE

If you’re looking to plan a beach day at one of New Hampshire’s state parks, you might want to book your reservations now.The first opening to get in at Wallis Sands State Park in Rye isn’t until Tuesday, July 28 and there’s only a handful of parking...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

Victims of domestic violence and stalking in New Hampshire can now apply for protective orders online, in addition to filing in person at their local courthouse.The new remote filing option requires victims to contact one of the state’s 13 crisis...