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New COVID vaccine approved in Canada, made by Medicago and derived from plants
Medicago's plant-based COVID-19 vaccine is now approved by Health Canada, which will soon give Canadians the option of getting a ...
COVID ground zero: Three new studies again point to Wuhan live animal market as source of coronavirus outbreak
Scientists have released three studies that reveal intriguing new clues about how the COVID-19 pandemic started. Two of the reports ...
More than 7 million immunocompromised people in the US remain vulnerable to COVID. How should their concerns be addressed?
COVID-19 is still all around us, everywhere, and millions of people... are walking around with a compromised immune system. A ...
Danger ahead? How a COVID variant with the transmissibility of Omicron and the deadliness of SARS could emerge
As SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, has spread throughout the world, many observers have failed to take note of ...
On the path to a universal COVID vaccine
Is chasing the latest variant a viable strategy? Instead of testing and potentially deploying a new shot when a new ...
Vaccinating the elderly: An unappreciated strategy to reduce COVID deaths
No other basic fact of life matters as dramatically as age for COVID. Other common factors associated with risk—race, diabetes, ...
Tired of taking off your mask to unlock your phone? Apple’s face recognition now works when wearing face coverings
Apple Inc.’s next iPhone software update will finally address a grumble that’s been bugging users since the Covid pandemic started: ...
Babies of vaccinated mothers less likely to be hospitalized with COVID, CDC study finds
Mothers who get vaccinated against COVID-19 while pregnant are likely to pass on protection against the virus to their newborn ...
BioNTech’s audacious plan to bring portable vaccine factories to Africa and the rest of the developing world
At the heart of its site in Marburg, Germany, BioNTech is putting the finishing touches on a new kind of ...
How did the Omicron COVID variant emerge? Here are 3 theories
Omicron’s arrival in November 2021 took scientists by surprise. Not because there was a new variant on the block, but ...
4 ways to prepare for endless endemic COVID
The prospect of declaring victory is seductive at a time of widespread fatigue. Moreover, the challenge of unpredictability is daunting ...
Here are arguments for and against getting your child immunized against COVID
[Soon,] scientific advisers to the [FDA] will decide whether to endorse two doses of the vaccine for children 6 months ...
Viewpoint: Conspiratorial cognition — Anti-GMO US Right to Know plays point for ‘conspiracy activists’ pushing COVID lab leak theory and targeting virologists
From the beginning, the genomic evidence led most virologists who were investigating SARS-CoV-2 to favor a zoonotic origin involving a ...
Flurona: How likely are you to get both COVID and the flu simultaneously?
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, public health experts have worried about people getting infected with the influenza virus ...
Why will some people never get COVID — and why are they so important to researchers?
Some people don't get COVID despite being exposed to the virus — a mystery researchers are trying to unravel. Why ...
Living with chicken pox offers lessons for the COVID era
Last summer, at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an internal presentation on the coronavirus, which was leaked to ...
Substack media platform has helped anti-vaxxers pull in $2.5 million, Center for Countering Digital Hate finds
Popular email platform Substack generates some $2.5 million each year from anti-vaccine newsletters, according to a new report from the Center ...
Viewpoint: Even if dangerous variants emerge in the future, here’s a case for why it’s time to remove all restrictions
As the omicron blizzard recedes, and as more Americans itch for pandemic restrictions to be lifted, a vocal segment of the country ...
What science says about the future of COVID-19
With pandemic fatigue becoming more intense, there is increasing speculation about when the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, might become ...
Challenging the endemic hypothesis: ‘We have no idea what will happen next’
Endemicity, so the narrative goes, is how normal life resumes. (Some pundits and politicians would argue that we are, actually, already at ...
Why long COVID is like living with HIV
As noted by Kevin Kavanagh, MD... a core difficulty in society’s attempt to guide COVID-19 from pandemic to endemic is ...
Hybrid immunity: Does Omicron offer as much protection as a booster vaccine?
Many thousands of Americans have been infected with the omicron strain of COVID-19 in the last month, including many who ...
10 billion COVID doses: As global vaccine total hits milestone, country-to-country disparities remain
10 billion vaccine doses have been administered globally, a milestone that reflects the astonishing speed with which governments and drug ...
Question the ‘lab leak’ theory but don’t call it a conspiracy
A warning: This article will not tell you whether SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a lab and set off the Covid-19 pandemic, ...
Ivermectin conundrum: Why are so many doctors and their patients still pushing this ineffective treatment?
Contrary to scientific evidence and warnings from health agencies, hundreds of doctors nationwide continue to prescribe ivermectin – encouraged by ...
What can be done to overcome vaccine skeptics’ fear and opposition? Here’s how one clinic is meeting that challenge
Vaccine skepticism in Los Angeles County, where 72 percent of eligible residents are fully vaccinated, is bipartisan. Vaccination rates are ...
If Omicron is so much milder than prior COVID variants, why are hospitals packed with patients?
Omicron has filled up U.S. hospitals with more COVID-19 patients than any other surge of the pandemic. But there's been ...