Health and Wellness : ‘We’re in a Petri Dish’: How a Coronavirus Ravaged a Cruise Ship into Worldwide Pandemic

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How to stay positive during coronavirus: 4 habits to transform your happiness​

How to stay positive during coronavirus: 4 habits to transform your happiness

For Mental Health Awareness Month, "GMA" is sharing resources, tips and ways to protect your mental health. Four habits that take up just 21 minutes each day can be the key to more happiness in life, according to Shawn Achor, author of “The Happiness Advantage.” One of the habits, spending two...

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One of the habits, spending two minutes a day thinking of what you’re grateful for, can have dramatic results on your health and happiness, Achor's research shows.

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Women more stressed, burdened by coronavirus than men, poll finds. 5 ways to help change that​

Women more stressed, burdened by coronavirus than men, poll finds. 5 ways to help change that.

Women in the United States are more stressed than men about the global coronavirus pandemic and are taking more precautions because of it, according to a new report. Women are worried that they or someone in their family will get sick from the new novel coronavirus, known officially as...

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1. Give yourself five minutes to write down everything that is worrying you at the moment, Ali said. Next, look at your worries and see if you can pull from each one something that is in your control, something that you can manage.

Then, acknowledge in each worry the things you cannot do anything about, i.e., not being able to control when schools will reopen or whether someone at the grocery store may have coronavirus.

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Bipartisan group of senators pushes back on Biden Covid plan​

Bipartisan group of senators pushes back on Biden Covid plan

On a call with White House officials, senators objected to stimulus payments to wealthy Americans.

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The senators told the White House officials they support spending more on vaccine distribution but some balked at the stimulus payments, urging the White House to make them targeted toward those in greater need, according to sources on the call. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) pressed the Biden officials on why families making $300,000 would be eligible and urged a focus on lower-income workers.

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White people least likely to wear masks consistently, study finds​

White people least likely to wear masks consistently, study finds

A study from the University of Southern California found that white people are the least likely to wear masks consistently when engaging with people outside their household. An expert says it may be because it's 'unusual' for this group to be told what to do.

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An anti-mask protester in Austin, Texas, in April 2020. (Sergio Flores/Getty Images)

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Why Black Americans aren't being vaccinated for COVID-19 at the same rate as whites​

Why Black Americans aren't being vaccinated for COVID-19 at the same rate as whites

Early data on the rollout of the vaccines for COVID-19 shows that minority populations in the United States already disproportionately affected by the pandemic are not being immunized at the same rate as white Americans.

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Yahoo News Medical Contributor Dr. Uché Blackstock believes there are multiple factors contributing to this disparity.

“One of the problems that I saw very early on is that if you’re going to have mostly hospitals and pharmacies dispensing the vaccine, we’re going to miss a lot of people,” Blackstock said.

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Dr. Uché Blackstock, a Yahoo News medical contributor and CEO of Advancing Health Equity. (Bebeto Matthews/AP)

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