Outbreak
Infographics: Black and Hispanic Americans are closing the COVID vaccination gap
With the continued spread of the more transmissible Delta variant, unvaccinated people remain at increased risk for infection, illness, and ...
COVID pills: Pandemic kick-started long-neglected effort to develop potent antiviral treatments for coronaviruses
Antivirals are already essential treatments for other viral infections, including hepatitis C and HIV. One of the best known is ...
Why are more kids being infected by — and some dying from — the Delta COVID variant?
Eighteen months into the covid-19 pandemic, with the delta variant fueling a massive resurgence of disease, many hospitals are hitting ...
How artificial intelligence (AI) can help prevent the next coronavirus from jumping from animals to humans
New research by scientists at the University of Glasgow suggests that machine learning (ML) models developed using viral genomes can ...
How can we navigate a winter with both COVID and flu threats? Here’s a guide
Many doctors are doubling down on pleas for Americans to get vaccinated — especially as the flu season could lead ...
Vaccine divide between wealthier and less developed countries grows larger
Nearly 10 months after the first Covid-19 vaccine became available to the public, the divide between nations that have shots ...
Who should get a COVID booster shot now?
Who exactly is eligible to get the booster? If you are eligible, should you rush to get inoculated? What should ...
Could COVID morph into just another common cold?
Within a few years, COVID-19 may behave like other coronaviruses, which usually result in milder colds. The virus will probably ...
How accurate are at-home COVID tests?
Rapid at-home [COVID] tests are a good option for people who have been exposed to the virus, who want to ...
Infographic: What should pregnant women know about the COVID shot?
Facing months of conflicting guidance and unanswered questions, it's been hard for pregnant women to decide whether or not to ...
WHO assembles new team to investigate origins of COVID in China or elsewhere
The World Health Organization is reviving its stalled investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 virus as agency officials warn ...
Will Republican political resistance to the COVID-19 vaccine mutate into broader vaccine hesitancy?
In recent years, outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, spurred by low vaccination rates in children, emerged in wealthy, liberal places.... But ...
Virus-fighting drugs are difficult to come by. Will COVID help crack the code?
Physician Claudette Poole doesn’t take long to rattle off a list of antiviral medications she prescribes to her patients. “There ...
Merck’s experimental drug molnupiravir cuts COVID hospitalizations and deaths in half
A five-day course of molnupiravir, developed by Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, reduced both hospitalization and death compared to a placebo ...
Tune out the media noise: Vaccine mandates are mostly being embraced — and they’re working
Apparently some editors have decided it’s just a fine idea to blast out the tidbit that Americans are quitting their ...
The increasingly isolated lives of a dwindling number of unvaccinated NFL players
Wherever you stand on vaccination, it’s difficult to argue that remaining unvaccinated is somehow not an impediment for an NFL ...
Pregnant women should get vaccinated as soon as possible, CDC urges
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an urgent recommendation [September 29] for pregnant women and those who ...
Viewpoint: ‘The vaccine is more harmful than the coronavirus itself’ — How one floundering Ohio lawyer played the right wing circuit and turned disinformation into a lucrative business
In one of dozens of recent media appearances, Ohio attorney Thomas Renz was claiming that coronavirus vaccines were more harmful ...
‘Simple and ugly’: Reddit group named after Republican COVID denier Herman Cain grimly catalogues those who died after mocking seriousness of the coronavirus
HermanCainAward, one of the fastest-growing subreddits on Reddit.com, is exactly what it sounds like: an archive of those who have ...
YouTube bans Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Joseph Mercola and other anti-vaccine activists from spreading COVID disinformation
YouTube is taking down several video channels associated with high-profile anti-vaccine activists including Joseph Mercola and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ...
mRNA COVID vaccines were decades in the making
In the 1990s and for most of the 2000s, nearly every vaccine company that considered working on mRNA opted to ...
How Delta was birthed and what that says about the potential for deadlier future variants
Somewhere in India last October, a person—likely immunocompromised, perhaps taking drugs for rheumatoid arthritis or with an advanced case of ...
Sharp increase in deaths and hospitalizations driving COVID vaccinations
More than 7 in 10 adults (72%) in the U.S. now report that they are at least partially vaccinated against ...
Although vaccinated people can contract breakthrough infections in rare cases, their chances of getting long COVID are low
People who experience breakthrough infections of the coronavirus after being fully vaccinated are about 50 percent less likely to experience ...
Evangelical faith app goes rogue: How Subsplash went from spreading the word of Jesus to disseminating junk science and COVID conspiracy theories
Tim and Kristy Turner believe they were called to spread the word of Jesus through apps. In 2005, the pair ...
COVID has cut life expectancy the most since World War II — and men have been hit the hardest, losing 2 years on average
The COVID-19 pandemic reduced life expectancy in 2020 by the largest amount since World War Two, according to a study ...
Breakthrough COVID cases are uncommon — but are they always mild? Health experts say no
Public health experts continue to believe that breakthrough infections are relatively uncommon, and rarely result in severe illness or hospitalizations ...
