‘Children of Omicron’: What public health threats lie ahead as COVID evolves?

‘Children of Omicron’: What public health threats lie ahead as COVID evolves?

Rob Stein | 
Throughout the pandemic, the virus that causes COVID-19 has been evolving fast, blindsiding the world with one variant after another ...
COVID experiments on mice

COVID research transparency: Lab loopholes can lead to unnecessarily risky experiments. What can be done?

Benjamin Mueller, Carl Zimmer | 
Scientists at Boston University came under fire this week for an experiment in which they tinkered with the Covid virus ...
Long COVID

First large-scale long COVID study finds nearly half of survivors experience lingering symptoms

Ask anyone who has experienced the lingering maladies of the pandemic, and they’ll tell you long covid is no figment ...
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‘Omicron has started to splinter’: Winter COVID wave may come with a ‘dizzying barrage’ of new variants

Andrew Romano | 
The last big variant of concern — the hypertransmissible Omicron offshoot known as BA.5 — peaked in July. Since then, ...
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Immunity boost: Some people with ‘lucky genes’ may get an extra strong protection from COVID shots

Smitha Mundasad | 
Researchers analysed blood samples from people who took part in five different trials, including 1,600 adults who had either the ...
What happens if a nurse spreads fake COVID facts — and what counts as misinformation?

What happens if a nurse spreads fake COVID facts — and what counts as misinformation?

Charla Johnson | 
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many healthcare membership associations and organizations took a stance on the spread of misinformation by licensed ...
How might COVID evolve this fall? Here are 3 possible scenarios, and none is great

How might COVID evolve this fall? Here are 3 possible scenarios, and none is great

Marcia Frellick | 
As the United States enters a third fall with COVID-19, the virus for many is seemingly gone — or at ...
Covid's third winter predictions

Here comes COVID winter 3. What can we expect?

Akshay Syal, Erika Edwards | 
Hospitals nationwide are preparing for another winter with Covid — the first one that's also expected to include high levels ...
‘The third time might not be the charm’: Is there a limit to how many times you can get COVID?

‘The third time might not be the charm’: Is there a limit to how many times you can get COVID?

Dhruv Khullar | 
One wonders whether the cycle could continue forever—whether many of us will eventually get covid for a fourth time, or a fifth, ...
Covid might have caused flu strain b to become extinct.

A common flu strain all but vanished last winter. Could COVID have pushed it to extinction?

Beth Mole | 
Many subtypes of the influenza virus all but vanished. But most notably, one entire lineage—one of only four flu groups ...
The anti-vax movement of Marin County may be coming to a close

How the coronavirus pandemic flipped uber-liberal Marin County from vaccine rejectionist hub to shaming COVID vaccine skeptics

Soumya Karlamangla | 
In the pandemic age, getting a Covid-19 shot has become the defining “vax” or “anti-vax” litmus test, and on that ...
How safe are the new COVID vaccine boosters?

How safe are the new COVID vaccine boosters?

Steven Salzberg | 
In case you haven’t heard, there’s now a new set of vaccine booster shots that protect against the latest variant ...
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‘Olfactory training’: 5% of COVID survivors have long-lasting smell and taste problems. Here’s what can help recover their senses

Sandee LaMotte | 
Without smell, you may not recognize the telltale signs of fires, natural gas leaks, poisonous chemicals or spoiled food and ...
Why do some people suffer mild COVID while it debilitates others? Gene variant plays decisive role

Why do some people suffer mild COVID while it debilitates others? Gene variant plays decisive role

It may be the most baffling quirk of COVID: What manifests as minor, flu-like symptoms in some individuals spirals into ...
‘Blood on your hands’: WHO says richer nations cannot back away from helping the developing world still coping with COVID

‘Blood on your hands’: WHO says richer nations cannot back away from helping the developing world still coping with COVID

Jennifer Rigby | 
If rich nations think the pandemic is over, they should help lower-income countries reach that point too, a senior World ...
Covid-19 vaccine creator Moderna

When will we see a combined annual shot for flu and COVID? Moderna CEO talks about dual shot timeline and research on personalized cancer vaccine

Jonathan Rockoff | 
Moderna Inc. didn’t have an approved product before the pandemic hit. Now it is a household name, as the maker of ...
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Q&A on the future of versatile mRNA-based vaccine development

Robert Langer | 
Robert Langer, ScD, is the David H. Koch Institute professor at MIT and a co-founder of Moderna, the pharmaceutical company ...
Beyond brain fog: COVID infection linked to variety of neurological diseases, including epilepsy, dementia, psychosis

Beyond brain fog: COVID infection linked to variety of neurological diseases, including epilepsy, dementia, psychosis

Ralph Ellis | 
People who got COVID have a higher risk of developing brain disorders such as dementia, psychosis, and brain fog two ...
Here’s why researchers believe COVID shot mandates are fueling a backlash, undermining vaccine education

Here’s why researchers believe COVID shot mandates are fueling a backlash, undermining vaccine education

Cameron English | 
Research going back many years has shown that vaccine mandates tend to backfire. Forcing people to get shots they don't ...
Elderly are more affected by COVID brain fog, but ‘cognitive rehab’ could be an effective treatment

Elderly are more affected by COVID brain fog, but ‘cognitive rehab’ could be an effective treatment

Judith Graham | 
Eight months after falling ill with covid-19, the 73-year-old woman couldn’t remember what her husband had told her a few ...
Is long COVID likely to be progressive or permanent?

Is long COVID likely to be progressive or permanent?

Wes Ely | 
Covid is biologically dangerous long after the initial viral infection. One of the leading hypotheses behind long covid is that ...
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Targeting 2024: The quest to create a universal COVID vaccine

David Cox | 
Jonathan Heeney and colleagues face a challenge that has long proved insurmountable for scientists: to develop vaccines that can not ...
‘Cognitive evolution’: How our brains learned to quickly adapt to jarring new environments

‘Cognitive evolution’: How our brains learned to quickly adapt to jarring new environments

Chantel Prat | 
I am positive that every person reading this is fundamentally different from when the pandemic started. Because that's how our ...
All the science you need to know about COVID-19

All the science you need to know about COVID-19

Maggie Koerth | 
If there's one thing we've learned since March 2020, it's that pandemics are all about hard decisions. It's hard to keep track ...
Shadow of the AIDS crisis hangs over emerging monkeypox threat

Shadow of the AIDS crisis hangs over emerging monkeypox threat

Matt Lavietes | 
As cases of monkeypox surge around the globe, four pioneers of the AIDS activist movement watch in awe and with ...
Polio was found in New York City wastewater. Should we brace for another epidemic?

Polio was found in New York City wastewater. Should we brace for another epidemic?

Buzz Hollander | 
It’s easy to feel a bit of panic in the air. A young man was paralyzed in the New York ...
There’s still a lot of confusion about how monkeypox spreads. Here is what we know so far

There’s still a lot of confusion about how monkeypox spreads. Here is what we know so far

Megan Molteni | 
Monkeypox has spent most of its evolutionary history living inside Central and Western Africa’s small mammals — squirrels, rats, mice, ...
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