Outbreak
How COVID is upending how we normally experience the common flu
At one point last month, children were admitted to Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital with a startling range of seven ...
Anosmia and COVID: Does loss of smell from coronavirus signal more serious neurological issues ahead?
The sudden inability to smell and taste that comes with COVID is startling and difficult to describe. I was lucky ...
Long COVID’s biological puzzle: Untangling the difference between true disease and pandemic disruptions
Soon after SARS-CoV-2 surfaced in 2020, rapidly sending countries around the world into panicked lockdowns, a new specter arose: "Long ...
Can we blame Neanderthal-human sex for a million COVID deaths?
About 60,000 years ago, a human had a sexual encounter with a Neanderthal. Now, a genetic scientist has claimed that ...
New COVID Omicron variants become dominant strains in US, especially in South
The United States appears to be in the midst of another biological baton pass between Covid-19 variants. The Omicron lineage ...
COVID risk genes: 1370 gene variants predispose people to severe virus and even death
Researchers from the University of Sheffield and Stanford University in the US have discovered there are specific genetic signals in ...
Why this is no time to ease up on efforts to contain COVID-19
Many of us in the medical community feel as though we’re having one of those dreams in which we’re shouting ...
COVID ad infinitum: Why the coronavirus could be part of our lives for a very long time
Experts knew from early on that, for almost everyone, infection with this coronavirus would be inevitable. As James Hamblin memorably ...
Genetics plays outsized and underappreciated role in how COVID victims cope with virus after effects
A new paper looks at the genetic contribution to individual wellbeing during the pandemic, seeking to find support for the ...
Genetic differences key to why sub-Saharan Africans have lower rates of COVID infections and fewer severe cases than other population groups
Why did COVID-19 impact certain populations more than others? That mystery is slowly coming into focus. For the first time, ...
Conspiracist Alex Jones spreads factless claim that monkeypox linked to COVID vaccines
Well, it was only a matter of time before someone started blaming the Covid-19 vaccines for the current ongoing monkeypox ...
Infographic: Trump-voting Republican counties suffered more than twice the death rate from COVID than Democratic ones
Even with widely available vaccines and newly effective treatments, residents of counties that went heavily for Donald Trump in the ...
We have no idea what lies ahead with COVID
Recently on the local news, New York governor Kathy Hochul confidently proclaimed that we would not experience another COVID surge ...
Could Paxlovid help treat long COVID?
In the two years since she caught the coronavirus, 38-year-old Jessica McGovern has cycled through “well over 100 drugs, supplements, ...
Why the US won’t spot the next big COVID wave until it’s too late
Lines on charts can tell you something about the state of the Covid pandemic in the United States. Deaths: declining, ...
Omicron has birthed a slew of COVID subvariants. Here’s what you need to know to stay safe
Two years into the coronavirus pandemic, Americans can be forgiven if they've lost track of the latest variants circulating nationally ...
COVID human trials controversy: Were the potentially deadly risks worth the benefits?
In February 2021, scientists at Imperial College London gained approval to conduct an [human challenge trial, or] HCT of COVID-19 ...
Natural COVID immunity? Some people are exposed to SARS-CoV-2 but never get sick
More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, most Americans have some immunity against the virus — either by vaccination ...
Some patients who take COVID medication Paxlovid experience rebound symptom recurrence
I had low expectations for Pfizer’s anti-Covid medication, Paxlovid, before its clinical trial data was released. After all, novel antivirals ...
Epidemic of loneliness: Post-COVID update on how emotional isolation damages our health
For two years you didn’t see friends like you used to. You missed your colleagues from work, even the barista ...
COVID nasal vaccines nearing rollout could ease resistance
While coronavirus shots are among the greatest medical achievements of all time, reaching the market in less than a year ...
Viewpoint: Anti-vaccine backlash is not going away — and its long term consequences are grim
As of January 25, 2022, some 40% of Americans [1] have not been fully vaccinated. [2] This, notwithstanding valiant efforts ...
Food shortages and growing public anger boils over as Beijing-ordered lockdowns shut down major Chinese cities
Anger and anxiety over the Shanghai lockdown, now in its fourth week, has posed a rare challenge for China’s powerful ...
Viewpoint — COVID fallout raises prickly question: Does science need a ‘rebrand’ to restore credibility as nonpartisan?
Harley-Davidson is one of the most iconic brands in the world. Harley-Davidson, however, doesn’t sell motorcycles – it sells a ...
Viewpoint: Is China overreacting to mild COVID variant outbreak?
What exactly is the function of China’s zero-Covid lockdowns, which individually and cumulatively now are far bigger than even the ...
How COVID steals sense of smell
Few of Covid-19’s peculiarities have piqued as much interest as anosmia, the abrupt loss of smell that has become a ...
Switch in strategy: Why the next COVID vaccine could be a nasal spray
The virus had gained a stunning ability to infect people, jumping from one person’s nose to the next. Cases soared ...
