Outbreak
Going maskless: CDC lifts almost all recommendations for mask wearing and physical distancing for the fully vaccinated
Fully vaccinated people don’t need to wear a mask or physically distance during outdoor or indoor activities, large or small, ...
Viewpoint: Tribalism and COVID — Many progressives rejecting science on lockdowns and becoming major hindrance to return to near-normalcy
The spring of 2021 is different from the spring of 2020... Scientists know a lot more about how COVID-19 spreads—and ...
Most people have mild reactions to COVID vaccines — but for some side effects are serious. Understanding why is challenging
In an ideal situation, an adverse event would be directly linked to a vaccine using a specific lab test. For ...
Making the leap from ‘no’ to ‘yes’: Here’s why some vaccine hesitators decided to get a shot
Kim Simmons, a 61-year-old small-business owner in Illinois, vividly remembers the moment she went from vaccine skeptic to vaccine-ready: watching ...
Vaccine advertising moonshot: Behind the scenes of the campaign to convince Americans to get the COVID shot
The question of whether to vaccinate sits at the center of America’s deepest sources of discontent: political hatred, racial injustice, ...
COVID and the Amish: Ohio congregants face soaring infectections and vaccination rate is only 1%. Here’s why
Holmes County, where half of the population is Amish, has the lowest vaccination rate in Ohio, with just 10% of ...
People with compromised immune systems are likeliest evolutionary source of rogue COVID variants
A coronavirus typically gains mutations on a slow-but-steady pace of about two per month. But this variant, called B.1.1.7, had ...
Science Facts and Fallacies podcast: Dr. Paul Offit takes on anti-vaccine activism as COVID shots stem new infections
Early in the pandemic, Children's Health Defense—the anti-vaccine group headed by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.—alleged that SARS-COV-2 was being used ...
36% of Gen Z-ers say ‘no’ to getting a vaccine: How can we convince skeptical young people to get a coronavirus shot?
A new Quinnipiac University poll found that 36% of Americans under 35 don't plan on getting the vaccine. ... Some ...
Should COVID vaccine patent rights be waived as a commitment to ‘vaccine equity’ for countries without access to shots?
To get the pandemic under control ― a universal goal, to be sure ― a growing number of voices in ...
COVID-19 variants pose new threats but our antibodies are evolving to fight them
The emergence of “variants of concern” has raised questions about our long-term immunity to the coronavirus. Will the antibodies we make ...
Viewpoint: Vaccine resistance is a growing concern. So far, the US is bungling its response
Research shows that vaccine skepticism appeals to people who already distrust authority. Solutions proposed during the COVID-19 pandemic may be ...
Good and bad news: What we know about vaccines and containing COVID variants
Glimmers of hope are beginning to shine through the gloom of the past year. That was evident in a recent ...
5 reasons why we might never reach COVID herd immunity
Long-term prospects for the pandemic probably include COVID-19 becoming an endemic disease, much like influenza. But in the near term, ...
50,000 athletes and visitors could descend on Tokyo for the Summer Olympics with COVID cases rising and just 1% of the population fully vaccinated. Japan is worried
The International Olympic Committee [recently] unveiled updated plans for holding the Summer Games in Japan, meticulous “playbooks” that promise to ...
Photographs: As COVID crisis surges in India, tragedy spreads
[India now] accounts for almost half of new [COVID] cases worldwide. Experts say a combination of factors gave rise to ...
A clue to long-haul COVID symptoms: Coronavirus might change gene expression
Results from a new cell study suggest that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein can bring about long-term gene expression changes. The ...
Video: Many people are asymptomatic to COVID. Why?
For many people infected, COVID has been a devastating virus. However, there are people who test positive, yet don't exhibit ...
How long do vaccines provide COVID protection? Data coming into focus and it’s promising news
Exactly how long does a COVID-19 vaccine last? More information exists about Pfizer BioNTech and Moderna vaccines than the Johnson ...
Are rogue COVID variants ahead? ‘It’d be a brave person to say that the virus is nearing the end of its evolutionary route’
As the global infection count surges for a seventh consecutive week, after initial optimism that the pandemic had peaked, leading ...
Home cure for COVID? Pfizer testing a pill that offers promise
At two anonymous Pfizer buildings, one in the U.S. and one in Belgium, a remarkable experiment is under way. Up ...
Biden administration supports easing patent rights on COVID vaccines in effort to accelerate global distribution, breaking from European Union
The Biden administration, in a major decision [May 5], said it would support easing patent rules on Covid-19 vaccines after ...
Viewpoint: COVID lockdown denialists are immune to the hard realities of a relentless virus
I am no lockdown junkie. I’d like to get that straight before I explain why the most extreme variant of ...
Podcast: How to live in a partially COVID-vaccinated society
[A]bout a quarter of the U.S. population is fully vaccinated. So until many more people get their shots, Americans remain ...
Video: ‘The palette of modern therapeutics’ — mRNA and the COVID vaccines explained
Rather than tinkering with the virus or its parts, [mRNA vaccine technology] harnesses the “beauty of our biology” to deliver ...
Viewpoint: Critical juncture — ‘Situation getting enormously better in growing vaccinated population, while growing worse in the unvaccinated group’
Life has become even riskier for unvaccinated people, particularly those who have never had covid-19. ... While treatments for covid-19 ...
Unwitting COVID carriers: 20-college study trying to answer when it will be safe to go maskless
All three authorized vaccines in the United States offer recipients robust protection against illness, particularly the worst cases. But how ...
