Outbreak
Viewpoint: We still don’t know where COVID truly came from. Should we be concerned?
Ongoing mystery: We still don’t know how the pandemic started. Here's what we do know — and why it matters ...
Viewpoint: GOP Congressmen continue to question safety of the COVID vaccine, raising concerns of feeding vaccine hesitancy
Vaccine skeptics run the gamut from individuals with scientific credentials who nevertheless oppose public health policies from a libertarian perspective ...
A new COVID vaccine is arriving this fall. Will anyone take it?
Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax are slated to deliver new single-strain coronavirus shots targeting the omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 in September ...
Exposed but never caught COVID? Lucky genes may protect you
Researchers found that people who carry a genetic variant of a protein found on cell surfaces are less likely to ...
What are the prospects that we might soon face another coronavirus-like viral pandemic?
There are signs of a mid-summer surge in COVID-19 cases, particularly in the Midwest and West, that have some experts ...
COVID air detector: ‘You can know essentially in real time, or every 5 minutes, if there is a live virus in the air’
A team of researchers at the McKelvey School of Engineering and the School of Medicine has developed a proof-of-concept air ...
Long COVID-like symptoms may be side effect of COVID vaccines, FDA and university researchers tentatively say
A debilitating suite of symptoms that resembles Long Covid, has been more elusive, its link to vaccination unclear ...
Long-awaited National Intelligence report on COVID origins rejects China lab leak theory, sparking outrage among Wuhan skeptics and conspiracists
A new U.S. government report debunks the theory that the virus leaked from the Chinese lab ...
Scientific 180? One tech multi-millionaire’s journey from evidence-based advocate to COVID misinformation missionary
After boosting unproven covid drugs and campaigning against vaccines, Steve Kirsch was abandoned by his team of scientific advisers ...
25% of people who lost sense of smell and taste after COVID infection do not recover senses
Millions of Americans have been infected with COVID-19 since the pandemic of the novel coronavirus began in March 2020, and ...
Viewpoint: Genetics of COVID — Research into why some people never got the virus should explore genetic predisposition to long COVID
Genetics might explain why some people have never had COVID – but we shouldn’t be too focused on finding out ...
Dramatic visual evidence shows how COVID decimates the lungs and causes long-term damage
To better understand the long-term impact of Covid’s assault on the lungs, The New York Times spoke with three patients ...
What do we know about the debilitating persistence of long COVID?
Millions of Americans who contracted the disease continue to suffer from symptoms associated with long COVID ...
Viewpoint: Pandemic tribalism — Why shreds of COVID origin evidence are hailed by some as incontrovertible proof
Over the past year, we’ve been treated to a series of lab-leak news cycles prompted by vague intelligence reports and ...
How COVID can lodge itself in our brains
As the fourth year of the pandemic dawns, a study published in Nature from Daniel Chertow, MD, MPH, head of ...
Fact check: No, mRNA COVID-19 vaccines have not been added to livestock or produce
COVID-19 vaccines are not being passed along through livestock or produce, and experts say that would not be an efficient ...
Viewpoint: Is discovering the true origins of COVID an ‘arcane sideshow’? Here’s why that argument is terribly wrong
In many ways, you can tally the impact of the coronavirus without having to know whether it jumped to humans ...
Anti-vaxxers based their rejectionism on a study claiming COVID shots caused excessive deaths. Now it’s been retracted
Doubts about scientific papers related to COVID-19 have been rife during the pandemic. The database of retractions of COVID studies ...
Viewpoint: How the COVID lab leak theory spread like the virus itself
Covid had just reached American shores on Feb. 9, 2020, when Newt Gingrich invited Anthony Fauci, the longtime head of ...
Viewpoint: Florida Governor Ron Desantis is ‘all-in on vaccine skepticism’
He was for the COVID-19 vaccines before he was against them, but now Florida’s governor is all-in on vaccine skepticism—and ...
Not out of the woods on COVID threats: Animal reservoirs of SARS-CoV-2 pose unknown risks to humans
The COVID-19 pandemic has been one of the most devastating events in public health in the U.S. over the last ...
Almost everything you thought you knew about ‘long-hauler’ COVID is being revised
Long COVID comes Into the light: We’re finally starting to see the truth about the vexing condition. It’s not what ...
How would US health and government officials have handled COVID if we knew then what we know now?
In March 2020, the virus held many mysteries. Some early assumptions didn’t hold up, while other key findings wouldn’t come ...
NOVIDS: Why do some people never catch COVID despite frequent exposures?
While the exact number of people who have remained uninfected isn’t known with certainty, a review of comprehensive serologic data ...
Lab leak or animal source? Strong evidence that COVID traces to raccoon dogs in China
The strongest evidence yet that an animal started the pandemic: A new analysis of genetic samples from China appears to ...
Three years after WHO declared COVID a global emergency, Americans remain sharply divided over pandemic truths and myths
Trust in public health officials declined over the course of the pandemic, particularly among Republicans. Over the course of the ...
Is long COVID ‘psychogenic’? Challenging claims that the disease is ‘all in the head’
In the early months of 2020 as Covid swept the world, I was a science writer with a mandate to ...
