Outbreak
Flashing red on college campuses: As schools reopen, universities emerge as COVID petri dishes
[Researchers] studied 30 [US college] campuses nationwide with the highest numbers of reported coronavirus cases and found that more than half ...
Viewpoint: COVID vaccine successes have made headway in rebutting facile arguments about the dangers of biotechnology
It turns out that, despite the destruction and heartbreak caused by the COVID pandemic, there is a silver lining: Scientists ...
Crash effort to develop coronavirus vaccines has revolutionized disease treatment
The COVID-19 experience will almost certainly change the future of vaccine science, says Dan Barouch, director of the Center for ...
Neanderthals, COVID-19 and you: Exploring how our inherited genes are harming us and could have decimated our hominid ancestors
[Researchers Svante] Pääbo and colleague Hugo Zeberg announced that the major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neanderthals… By ...
Video: Infrared camera shows how COVID spreads through a room
More than 288,000 Americans have been killed by a virus that public health officials now say can be spread through ...
‘Year of the Plague’: The New Yorker explores America’s continuing tragedy
In October, 2019, the first Global Health Security Index appeared, a sober report of a world largely unprepared to deal ...
Global health groups urge countries to donate COVID vaccines to humanitarian stockpiles, protecting stateless people in asylum camps
Public health groups are lobbying countries to commit a portion of their Covid-19 vaccine supplies to a “humanitarian buffer” that ...
How virtual reality could become a vital treatment to deal with the uncertainty of COVID
A national shortage in mental health clinicians existed before COVID-19. Now, health care organizations must decide how to rapidly scale ...
People with certain DNA sequences are much likelier to get severe COVID. Is that you?
A new study of thousands of COVID-19 patients has revealed eight genetic sequences that are more common in people who ...
Here’s how to address the confusing data hampering the USA’s COVID response
The challenges of defining the spread of COVID-19 relates in part to existing deficiencies – “We don’t really have a ...
Here’s why you still need to wear a face mask after you get a COVID vaccine
While [recent vaccine] developments mark a historic moment and hold much promise, that doesn't mean Americans can stop wearing masks ...
Heated copper mesh face masks that kill viruses may soon be available
Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have submitted a patent for a prototype mask with a heated copper mesh, a news ...
Should schools reopen for in-class study? Evidence suggests they are not major COVID spreaders
Emerging data on contact tracing — which illuminates the origins of infections — shows that the virus does not seem ...
Could the world be dealing with COVID-19 in all its mutations for decades to come?
We are currently faced with the question of how the CoV-2 severity may change in the years ahead. Our analysis ...
‘At this stage, I’m not ready to get vaccinated’: Some Russian doctors refuse to take Sputnik V shot, citing efficacy concerns
Moscow opened the doors of Russia's first 70 vaccination centers [December 2], offering healthcare workers and other crucial groups a ...
Early COVID vaccine recipients are reporting numerous side-effects. Believe it or not, that’s great news. Here’s why
Two criteria for a good vaccine are “effective” and “safe.” The coronavirus vaccine technically named BNT162b2 and developed by industry ...
Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine appears to protect against South African, UK COVID variants
[A new] study showed the immunity conferred by the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine could block a version of the virus that contained one key ...
COVID vaccine benefits appear to outweigh minimal potential dangers for pregnant and breastfeeding women
[T]he American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the S.M.F.M. and other organizations have been calling on the F.D.A. to allow pregnant and lactating ...
Why the Big 4 repurposed COVID drugs—hydroxychloroquine, Remdesivir, Lopinavir and Interferon—are all now viewed as failures
Six months ago it seemed that every other lab had a kick-ass, repurposed drug that was only weeks away from ...
How the Chinese government suppressed the real story of the country’s coronavirus catastrophe
The news was spreading quickly that Li Wenliang, a doctor who had warned about a strange new viral outbreak only to be ...
New COVID variants raise spectre of a global health catastrophe. Will they outpace vaccine development?
Scientists want to understand why SARS-CoV-2 variants identified in the United Kingdom and South Africa seem to be spreading so ...
How COVID deniers are taking pages out of the anti-vaccine movement’s playbook
One of the most notable things about the COVID-19 pandemic has been how fast two science denialist movements made common cause ...
Fox’s Laura Ingraham emerges as major peddler of COVID mask disinformation
[Fox News host Laura] Ingraham, who has no background in medicine or virology, is one of the most prominent members ...
Current vaccines likely work on new South African COVID variant, but effectiveness may be reduced
[A new COVID] variant, which has already shown up in patients in Europe and other African countries, has quickly become the predominant ...
Vaccine diplomacy: China hopes its vaccine development and outreach to the developing world will refurbish its image
Brazil is among the countries worst hit by the pandemic, with over six million cases and nearly 170,000 deaths. China ...
More or less deadly? Which way is SARS-CoV-2 evolving?
No lethal pandemic lasts forever. The 1918 flu, for example, crisscrossed the globe and claimed tens of millions of lives, ...
15-minute CRISPR-based COVID test uses smartphone camera to identify coronavirus
Scientists at UC Berkeley and Gladstone Institutes have developed a new CRISPR-based COVID-19 diagnostic test that, with the help of a smartphone ...
