‘Weird MIS-C syndrome’: Children experiencing surge in rare disease linked to COVID-19

‘Weird MIS-C syndrome’: Children experiencing surge in rare disease linked to COVID-19

Jen Christensen | 
Doctors don't know what causes it. Often kids have Covid-19 first, but not always. The novel coronavirus doesn't usually cause ...
Vitamin-D and COVID: The polarized, messy debate and whether you should consider taking it

Vitamin-D and COVID: The polarized, messy debate and whether you should consider taking it

Angela Dowden | 
Views on Vitamin D are almost as polarized as politics; in fact the whole debate around COVID-19 and vitamin D ...
Fact-checking site pans Wall Street Journal opinion piece claiming US could have herd immunity by April

Fact-checking site pans Wall Street Journal opinion piece claiming US could have herd immunity by April

This Wall Street Journal opinion piece, published on 18 February 2021, claimed in its headline that the U.S. will “have ...
Scientists challenge China-WHO story of COVID emergence

Scientists challenge China-WHO story of COVID emergence

Colum Murphy, Corinne Gretler | 
The controversy over the investigation organized by the World Health Organization and China about the origins of Covid-19 heated up ...
Vaccine passports: While US holds back for now, China and Europe embrace ‘digital green pass’

Vaccine passports: While US holds back for now, China and Europe embrace ‘digital green pass’

Drew Hinshaw, Jason Douglas | 
Many international travelers will likely need to prove they are vaccinated or free of Covid-19 if they plan trips later ...
Behind the scenes of America’s troubled COVID vaccine rollout

Behind the scenes of America’s troubled COVID vaccine rollout

[W]hy is it taking so long to vaccinate Americans? The answer starts with tens of millions of Covid-19 vaccine doses ...
‘Long COVID’: One third of symptomatic survivors have long haul symptoms

‘Long COVID’: One third of symptomatic survivors have long haul symptoms

Dennis Thompson | 
About 33% of COVID-19 patients who were never sick enough to require hospitalization continue to complain months later of symptoms ...
Debunking 7 myths about the COVID vaccine

Debunking 7 myths about the COVID vaccine

Aaron Carroll | 
[W]idespread immunization is the fastest and best way to begin to return to a more normal way of life. Seven ...
Best in the world — 90% of Israelis over 50 are fully vaccinated against COVID. How did Israel do it?

Best in the world — 90% of Israelis over 50 are fully vaccinated against COVID. How did Israel do it?

A rush of Israeli medical research — some emerging too fast for academic journals to keep up — reveals that ...
COVID shots and "The Mark of the Beast'? Battling religious vaccine misinformation

COVID shots and “The Mark of the Beast’? Battling religious vaccine misinformation

Elizabeth Dwoskin | 
The Book of Revelation describes the End Time as a bloody battle filled with persecution, during which a beast forces ...
Video: Here’s why COVID mutant variants are spreading so fast

Video: Here’s why COVID mutant variants are spreading so fast

Daniela Hernandez, Liz Ornitz | 
As highly transmissible coronavirus variants sweep across the world, scientists are racing to understand why these new versions of the ...
Part 2: Why is Africa the global COVID-19 'cold spot'? — The historical challenge of disentangling genes and environment

Part 2: Why is Africa the global COVID-19 ‘cold spot’? — The historical challenge of disentangling genes and environment

Jon Entine, Patrick Whittle | 
Does greater prior exposure to pathogens, including other recent coronaviruses, help explain why Africa is a COVID-19 cold spot, despite ...
Mass vaccination campaigns are always challenging. Here’s how the US fared with a previous outbreak

Mass vaccination campaigns are always challenging. Here’s how the US fared with a previous outbreak

Jenny Gross | 
On April 12, 1955, the U.S. government licensed the first vaccine against poliomyelitis, created by Dr. Jonas Salk, after scientists ...
With symptoms from rashes to strokes, is COVID a blood vessel disease?

With symptoms from rashes to strokes, is COVID a blood vessel disease?

Will Stone | 
Some of the earliest insights into how COVID-19 can act like a vascular disease came from studying the aftermath of the most ...
Defying world trends, India sees dramatic drop in COVID cases, stumping scientists

Defying world trends, India sees dramatic drop in COVID cases, stumping scientists

Krutika Pathi | 
[Early on in the pandemic, COVID] infections climbed dramatically for months and at one point India looked like it might ...
Part 1: Defying all predictions, Africa is the global COVID-19 ‘cold spot’. How come health officials and the media are not honestly exploring why?

Part 1: Defying all predictions, Africa is the global COVID-19 ‘cold spot’. How come health officials and the media are not honestly exploring why?

Jon Entine, Patrick Whittle | 
The first confirmed COVID-19 case in Africa was on February 14, 2020 in Egypt. The first in sub-Saharan Africa appeared ...
COVID evolution: ‘What other variants might be out there?’

COVID evolution: ‘What other variants might be out there?’

Andrew Joseph, Emma Hodcroft | 
Tracking the subtle changes to the virus’ RNA is like global detective work, requiring health officials around the world to ...
Lagging global vaccine rollout could open the door to more mutant strains, complicating recovery

Lagging global vaccine rollout could open the door to more mutant strains, complicating recovery

Sarah Toy | 
The virus continues to spread rapidly in many parts of the world, even as segments of the population have gained ...
‘Spread like wildfire’: Conspiracy theories undermining COVID vaccine efforts spreading from Western countries to Africa

‘Spread like wildfire’: Conspiracy theories undermining COVID vaccine efforts spreading from Western countries to Africa

Anti-vaccine sentiment, often fed by rumours spread on social media, is already thriving in the West. But a similar dynamic ...
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Here is COVID good news: It’s jumpstarted biomedical innovation

Anne White | 
As we look back at the past few months, I see three lessons that health care researchers can take from ...
Optimizing vaccine rollout: Should we be concerned about taking possibly less effective — but easier to distribute — COVID shots like AstraZeneca's and J&J's?

Optimizing vaccine rollout: Should we be concerned about taking possibly less effective — but easier to distribute — COVID shots like AstraZeneca’s and J&J’s?

Heidi Ledford | 
Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi knows that a vaccine that offers 70% protection against COVID-19 could be a valuable tool against the ...
Is the flu more dangerous than COVID, as many people believe? Study shows risk of COVID death is 3.5 times higher

Is the flu more dangerous than COVID, as many people believe? Study shows risk of COVID death is 3.5 times higher

"We can now say definitively that COVID-19 is much more severe than seasonal influenza," said… Dr. Amol Verma, a researcher ...
What you need to know about the one-shot vaccine by Johnson & Johnson

What you need to know about the one-shot vaccine by Johnson & Johnson

Lori Robertson | 
More than two months after its last COVID-19 vaccine authorization, the FDA authorized for emergency use a one-shot vaccine from ...
Could vaccines accelerate the evolution of more dangerous mutant COVID variants?

Could vaccines accelerate the evolution of more dangerous mutant COVID variants?

Richard Harris | 
Some scientists have argued that it would be better to use the scarce vaccines to give first doses to as ...
Hundreds of novel coronaviruses likely lurking in animal species around the world

Hundreds of novel coronaviruses likely lurking in animal species around the world

Nicoletta Lanese | 
[New research] identifies hundreds of animal species that may become infected with known coronaviruses, although many of these infections haven't ...
Long COVID: Some people may never fully recover

Long COVID: Some people may never fully recover

Moises Velasquez-Manoff | 
They hadn’t been hospitalized. They were relatively young and otherwise in good health, without the underlying conditions like obesity and ...
Emerging symptoms of COVID: Stuttering, forgetfulness, mania, and even psychosis

Emerging symptoms of COVID: Stuttering, forgetfulness, mania, and even psychosis

Stephani Sutherland | 
An early survey of 153 COVID-19 patients in the U.K. and a more recent preprint study of people hospitalized with ...
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