Outbreak
COVID variants present new threat as US virus cases plateau
Dr. Ashish K. Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health and a leading expert on infectious diseases, ...
Is it beneficial, and safe, to mix COVID vaccines from different manufacturers?
Participants in [a] 13-month study will be given the Oxford/AstraZeneca and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines in different combinations and at different intervals, ...
Many long-term care workers resist COVID vaccinations. Can they be mandated?
It’s a question that many long-term care employers, from individual families to big national companies, are confronting as vaccines become ...
Which offers more protection: Vaccination or natural immunity?
According to Sen. Rand Paul – an ophthalmologist, not an infectious disease specialist – natural immunity is better. While not ...
Variants on top of variants: COVID continues to mutate in Brazil, posing more perils to country already crushed by the pandemic
The unchecked spread of the more contagious SARS-CoV-2 variants in Brazil appears to have created even more dangerous versions of ...
‘When, where and how’: WHO report on COVID’s origins leaves many unanswered questions
A World Health Organization-led team investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic said in a report that data examined during ...
While many prisoners agree to vaccinations, prison guards emerge as hotbed of vaccine hesitancy
As states have begun COVID-19 inoculations at prisons across the country, corrections employees are refusing vaccines at alarming rates, causing ...
‘Another animal in the zoo’: Indian virus expert expects coronavirus to mutate into less harmful variants
Will the coronavirus, which has already killed more than 2 million people worldwide, eventually be eliminated by a global vaccination ...
WSJ Viewpoint: Europe looks like the Keystone Kops in its bungled vaccine rollout
Protectionism, mercantilism, bureaucratic ineptitude, lack of political accountability, crippling safety-ism—it’s all here. The Keystone Kops in Brussels and European capitals ...
76% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients have at least one symptom six months after infection
One recent analysis from China found that 76% of hospitalized patients had at least one symptom six months after they ...
Why some diseases confer lifelong immunity and others do not
Some diseases, like the measles, infect us once and usually grant us immunity for life. For others, like the flu, ...
Even as restrictions on vaccine eligibility disappear, hesitancy mushrooms
Places like Mississippi that have already scrapped their eligibility rules offer the rest of the country a glimpse of the ...
The B.1.1.7 British COVID variant is sweeping across the United States. How will vaccines fare?
The B.1.1.7 variant, first spotted in the UK, is not only more easily transmitted, but it also appears to be ...
FDA warns Joe Mercola to stop selling fake COVID remedies and cures
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned Joseph Mercola, an osteopath who heads a large online “alternative ...
QAnon followers play key role in infecting Facebook with vaccine conspiracy theories
[A new research effort by Facebook] is a large-scale attempt to understand the spread of ideas that contribute to vaccine ...
Long COVID: This woman’s symptoms started the day COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic. A year later, she is still struggling
The same day a global pandemic was declared, [Rachel Van Lear] developed symptoms of COVID-19. A year later, she's still ...
How COVID-19 deranges our immune systems
Scientists say unprepared immune cells appear to be responding to the coronavirus with a devastating release of chemicals, inflicting damage ...
Hope for long-haulers? Vaccines quell symptoms in some patients
Some people who have spent months suffering from long-haul covid-19 are taking to social media to report their delight at ...
How business is battling employee vaccine denialism and doubt
Across industries, business leaders are turning to all-hands staff meetings, video memos and other workplace forums to address skepticism about ...
Dark web scam: Here is why you shouldn’t source your vaccine from the internet
Sellers on 15 different "dark web" marketplaces have dispersed hundreds of doses of what they allege are COVID-19 vaccines, according ...
Less than 0.2% — that’s how many fully vaccinated Israelis developed COVID-19 symptoms
Out of those who were tested for the coronavirus at least a week after their second shot, less than 1 ...
Infographic: Africa and Asia are lagging behind rest of the world in mass vaccinating their populations
More than 345 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been administered worldwide in the three months since mass inoculation began ...
COVID-19 Variant Handbook: How many there are and which vaccines effectively protect against them
As the pandemic has progressed, new coronavirus variants have been detected around the world. Some that you may have heard ...
Vaccine diplomacy: Already supplying 97 countries and counting, China is winning the public relations war
The country that can manufacture and distribute lifesaving injections to others less fortunate sees a return on its investment in ...
COVID can ravage our sense of smell. It’s also sparking research on the sense we often take for granted
Smell is a startling superpower. You can walk through someone’s front door and instantly know that she recently made popcorn ...
Why so many people in the LGBTQ community are vaccine hesitant
Research has shown that sexual and gender minorities, and especially people of color, are more vulnerable to becoming infected with ...
More than 80% of Russian-originated tweets on US COVID vaccines are negative. Here is the story of Putin’s disinformation campaign
An official with the State Department’s Global Engagement Center, which monitors foreign disinformation efforts, identified four publications that he said ...
