Outbreak
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 ...
Can we know for sure COVID’s origins? Why is Omicron so persistent? Knowing how evolution works provides guidance
The latest phrase borrowed from biology in COVID conversations is convergent evolution. It refers to pairs of unrelated species that ...
All in your head? Long COVID has been dismissed by some as a psychological phenomenon and not a medical condition. Here’s why they are wrong
Despite all the patient voices and validating studies from university labs, long Covid has been dismissed by some doctors and ...
Viewpoint: Should the US House investigate COVID origins? Here’s the case for leaving that to scientists
One of the world’s most sensitive and consequential scientific questions will soon be grist for discussion among the members of ...
Viewpoint: Did health officials bungle by embracing mRNA vaccines at the expense of J&J’s single shot?
How many times have public-health experts told us that Covid isn’t like the flu? Suddenly that’s changed. The Food and ...
It’s not just humans that get COVID — other animals are susceptible too
Humans aren't the only mammals susceptible to infection by, or testing positive for SARS-CoV-2. There have been instances among quite ...
Science or ideology: What’s behind the ongoing debate over masks to limit the spread of viruses?
What the never-ending mask debate is really about — Hint: It's not the science ...
Meet the women who described, named, and brought long COVID into the light
Years into the pandemic, scientists are still trying to understand long COVID ...
It affects 50 million Americans, and for now it’s incurable. Here’s what we know about the ear ringing disorder tinnitus — and its possible links to COVID-19 and vaccines
This past March, the CEO and founder of the Texas Roadhouse steakhouse chain, Kent Taylor, committed suicide. According to family ...
Long COVID: How long do symptoms linger? Experts disagree
The majority of long Covid symptoms resolve within the first year after infection for people with mild cases of Covid-19, ...
Fact checking social media posts claiming COVID vaccines are unsafe
A vaccine safety surveillance study from the Food and Drug Administration has been misrepresented online. The paper did not establish ...
Strep throat, flu, RSV: What’s behind recent strange patterns of common childhood illnesses?
RSV, Strep A, the flu: a range of familiar bugs are worrying doctors and parents with strange new patterns. What's ...
XBB.1.5 spreading rapidly through the US: Why the coronavirus continues to confound scientists and public health officials
The SARS-CoV-2 virus is threatening to surge again. In the past few weeks alone, a recent version, XBB.1.5, has quickly ...
COVID and cognition: How severe cases can age your brain
In a recent article published in Nature Aging, researchers found that severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) triggers aging-like changes in ...
‘Free to fabricate’ or ‘barred from teaching’? Discord over COVID underscores threats to academic freedom — and the public
Two scientists. Two prominent institutions. One is a tenured professor running a microbial research laboratory where she investigates mechanisms of antibiotic ...
Anti-vaxxers, COVID conspiracists, FOX’s Tucker Carlson and the far right link vaccines to NFL player Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest
Moments after Buffalo Bills defensive back Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field after making a tackle on 2 January, Covid-19 conspiracy theorists and right-wing personalities baselessly blamed ...
3-years and counting: GLP contributing writer and geneticist Ricki Lewis highlights 100 articles on the COVID pandemic
Three years ago, health officials in China announced the first cases of infection with a “novel coronavirus.” Dr. Zhang Jixian reported ...
As China’s daily COVID cases soar into the millions, questions remain about the country’s vaccines. Here are the answers
China is in the midst of its first major COVID surge, and it's one of the world's largest. China rolled ...
Our individual genetic makeups drive how we respond to a COVID infection
A striking characteristic of COVID‑19 is that the severity of clinical outcomes is remarkably variable. Establishing a prognosis for individuals ...
GOP House house report claims possible link of COVID to China biological weapons
Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee are alleging in a newly released report that there are "indications" that COVID-19 could be ...
3+ million lives saved: COVID vaccines prevented mass death in the US
A study released December 13 by the Commonwealth Fund shows that in those two years, the Covid vaccines have averted over ...
Simon & Schuster faces criticism for publishing book claiming ‘discredited’ ivermectin stops COVID
Pierre Kory, MD, one of the most vocal proponents of ivermectin for COVID-19, has the support of Simon & Schuster, ...
‘They were trolling her obituary’: Ant-vaxxers attack families of people who got COVID shots then died unexpectedly
"Seven days, 18 hours, 39 minutes ago my beloved... died suddenly of cardiac arrest". When Victoria Brownworth logged onto Twitter ...
Monoclonal antibody treatments no longer work against new COVID variants. Why not?
Monoclonal antibodies were once the star of COVID-19 outpatient treatments. Since they first became available in 2020 – even before the first ...
Life expectancy is improving in many high-income countries — but not in the US. Why?
Life expectancy in most countries took a hit during the COVID pandemic. But the U.S. has seen a sharper drop-off ...
9 out of 10 COVID deaths are in people over 65, reviving questions about what we consider to be ‘acceptable loss’
More than 300 people are still dying each day on average from covid-19, most of them 65 or older, according ...
