Outbreak
Infographic: How contagious are the various COVID variants compared with other diseases?
The cleanest way of comparing the pure biological spreading power of viruses is to look at their R0 (pronounced R-naught) ...
Does your college require a COVID shot to return this fall? It mostly depends if you are in a red or blue state
More than 500 colleges and universities plan to require coronavirus vaccination for at least some of their students and employees, ...
Vaccine two-fer: ‘Synthetic protein’ technology used in Vaxxinity’s COVID shot can treat neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
US biotech company Vaxxinity is developing a novel coronavirus vaccine using synthetic proteins, which can also help treat neurodegenerative diseases ...
A pill to treat COVID? US pours $3 billion into crash antiviral research targeting year-end treatment
The Biden administration will invest more than $3 billion on developing and manufacturing antiviral pills to treat coronavirus, the Department ...
What do infectious disease experts say about the Wuhan lab leak COVID origins hypothesis?
So what do infectious disease researchers and evolutionary biologists say about [arguments for the Wuhan lab leak COVID hypothesis?] Is ...
Texas man who rejected a COVID shot in January received life-saving transplant after the virus destroyed his lungs in a matter of weeks
Joshua Garza, 43, of Sugarland, [Texas], decided not to get vaccinated in January because he didn’t think he needed it ...
Pfizer and Moderna vaccine recipients may not need booster shots for years — if COVID variants don’t evolve too much beyond the virus’ original form
[A recent] study bolsters growing evidence that most people immunized with the mRNA vaccines may not need booster shots, with ...
The delta COVID variant originally identified in India is not only more transmissible — it causes different symptoms than earlier strains
Scientists have warned that the data suggests the delta variant is around 60% more transmissible than the “alpha” variant (previously ...
Vaccinate the world against COVID? Why the ambitious multi-billion dollar plan to protect the world’s poor failed
The Covax program, conceived in early 2020 as a kind of Operation Warp Speed for the globe, was supposed to ...
Why are vaccine passports running into such intense opposition?
[A]s gyms, theaters, and airplanes also start making new rules, it's still unclear exactly how they'll verify vaccinations or how ...
Find coffee bitter? Taste-linked gene identified that could be protecting millions of people from getting COVID
People’s perception of taste (coffee tasting very bitter, slightly bitter or not bitter at all, for example) has been known ...
Could COVID come roaring back in the fall and winter — but as a less threatening flu-like seasonal virus?
As with influenza and the coronaviruses that cause common colds, there appears to be a seasonal element to the spread ...
Viewpoint: Here’s why I dropped out of a COVID vaccine trial midway through
I’ve been wrestling with a dilemma the past few weeks: Do I stay in the COVID-19 vaccine trial I’ve been ...
22% of Americans identify as anti-vaxxers as a reflection of their ‘social identity’, poll finds
A study of more than 1,000 demographically representative participants found that about 22 percent of Americans self-identify as anti-vaxxers, and ...
COVID vaccine booster? Here are 7 reasons why we might not need one
Plenty of research in COVID-19 indicates a likely long-lasting response to the vaccine or infection. Here are seven of the ...
For those who got COVID-19, immunity could last for the rest of your life
Many people who have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 will probably make antibodies against the virus for most of their lives ...
Deadly COVID mutation wild card: Frightening lessons from the 1918 Spanish flu recovery
The influenza virus that caused the 1918 pandemic mutated into variants, much like the novel coronavirus has done in the ...
Vaccine disinformation and conspiracy theories run wild in California among Mexican farm workers. Here’s what’s being done to address that
For months, anti-vaccine conspiracy theories had ripped across northern California’s wine country, invisible wildfires of untruth spreading through some of ...
Detecting COVID-19 with a one-second test? It’s now possible
A group of scientists from the United States and Taiwan say they have developed a test that can detect whether ...
Viewpoint: Why are some people hesitant to get vaccines? It may have more to do with hard-wired personality than politics
After conducting a national survey of U.S. adults, we grouped people into distinct profiles based on their shared beliefs and ...
A post-pandemic economic boom is coming. History provides insight on how this surge might play out
Today, even as COVID-19 rages across poorer countries, the rich world is on the verge of a post-pandemic boom. Governments ...
Republicans, people of color, the young, less educated and uninsured — these are the groups most likely to remain unvaccinated, poll shows
Unvaccinated adults are a shrinking population in the U.S. that, as of late May 2021, consists of about one-third of ...
Global COVID vaccine supply crunch? Wealthy developed countries snap up two years of supplies, hardening rich-poor divide
The European Union, Canada and other developed countries have signed deals to get hundreds of millions of doses of Covid-19 ...
Viewpoint: Who is behind anti-vax propaganda claiming COVID shots are killing people? Meet disinformation provocateurs Peter McCullough, Mike Adams and RFK, Jr.
At the extreme end of the antivax hysteria is, as one might expect, Mike Adams at NaturalNews.com proclaiming... VACCINE HOLOCAUST ...
Maybe both sides are right: If SARS-CoV-2 was leaked from a Wuhan lab, it doesn’t mean the virus was necessarily engineered
The “lab leak” hypothesis about the origin of Covid-19 has been getting a lot of attention lately, and deservedly so ...
In between belly rubs, dogs are on the front lines in hunting down COVID
[T]hree Labradors, operating out of a university clinic in Bangkok, are part of a global corps of dogs being trained ...
Nearly 500 Trump-voting US counties have less than 25% of their populations vaccinated, opening door to fall COVID revival
As much of the country emerges from masking and social distancing, undervaccinated pockets in the U.S. still threaten to bring ...
