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Coronaviruses thrive in animals. Could a far more lethal COVID variant emerge in pets?
The recent suggestion that ministers may have to consider culling or vaccinating animals to prevent the coronavirus from picking up another ...
Viewpoint: ‘Digital version of snake-oil salesmen’ — Vaccine hesitant ‘Frontline Doctors’ group charging up to $700 for inexpensive ivermectin treatments
Over the past three months, a TIME investigation found, hundreds of AFLD [America’s Frontline Doctors] customers and donors have accused ...
COVID-fighting pills edge closer to proof-of-efficacy
Osaka-based Shionogi, which helped develop the blockbuster cholesterol drug Crestor, said it designed its pill to attack the Covid-19 virus ...
We will all likely get COVID. How can we adapt to living with the virus?
We don’t know exactly how the four common-cold coronaviruses first came to infect humans, but some have speculated that at ...
COVID vaccine and mask guidance confusion? Why we should cut the CDC some slack — It’s the norm when dealing with fast-evolving disease crises
There is continuing confusion, and even consternation, over what seem to be disparate policies, recommendations and mandates emerging in response ...
Is Delta rendering the COVID vaccine useless, as some people claim? Shot found to reduce breakthrough infections to 1 in 13,000
With tens of millions of Americans now vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of August, so-called "breakthrough" cases are bound ...
Some fully-vaccinated people are seeking out booster shots — and the CDC is exploring potential side effects
People seeking a COVID-19 booster vaccine dose in hopes of greater protection are doing so as the evidence relating to ...
Facebook allowed COVID conspiracies to circulate unchecked, more evidence shows
Facebook earlier this year faced a torrent of criticism from President Biden and others who have alleged that the company ...
‘Vaccine refusal has always been a place where left meets right’: Deconstructing the politics of the pandemic vaccine response
The modern anti-vaccination movement in America has often been associated with a stereotype of left-wing, coastal, white, wealthy moms — ...
Unvaccinated Americans 11 times as likely as the vaccinated to die of COVID, research finds, bolstering case for mandatory shots
Just a day after President Biden issued broad mandates aimed at encouraging American workers to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, ...
How can we encourage people to wear masks?
Researchers from Stanford, Yale, the Bangladeshi nonprofit GreenVoice and the research group Innovations for Poverty Action, among others, are conducting ...
‘Understanding long COVID is like trying to nail Jell-O to a wall’: Research emerges on long-time sufferers
“There is currently no accepted case definition for symptoms or duration of long COVID. Consequently, it is difficult to estimate ...
Russian internet meme: No, the COVID vaccine can’t turn people into chimps
Russian trolls have been using Planet of the Apes memes in a vain attempt to convince vaccine skeptics that the ...
Viewpoint: Ivermectin dewormer folly — How the right fell in love with the latest bogus COVID cure
For much of the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump and his allies pushed an unproven drug, ...
Anti-mask and vaccine rejectionist protests increasingly turn violent
Across the country, anti-vaccine and anti-mask demonstrations are taking scary and violent turns, and educators, medical professionals and public figures ...
‘Window rapidly closing for scientists to evaluate COVID-19 origins’, says international Wuhan investigation team
The search for the origins of SARS-CoV-2 is at a critical juncture. There is willingness to move forward from both ...
Viewpoint: Case closed — Ivermectin doesn’t work for treating or preventing COVID despite social media and rightwing media claims
Ivermectin doesn’t work. It doesn’t prevent Covid-19, nor does it treat it. Unfortunately, the official government response to this misinformation ...
Who needs a COVID vaccine booster shot, and when?
On August 12, the FDA announced that third doses of Pfizer and Moderna’s vaccines would be made available for patients ...
Viewpoint in the Daily Beast: Reactionary ‘COVID biotechnophobia’ was seeded by anti-GMO activists and compliant media — and it continues today
On Dec. 31, 2019, the first case of the coronavirus was recorded, a global pandemic was en route and emerging biotechnology would be our ...
Inside the quest to develop second-generation vaccines, variant-proof boosters and a shot that works against future pandemics
Even as vaccine supplies outstrip demand in the United States, the scientific quest for coronavirus shots has scarcely eased. In ...
Vaccine mandate war: Is it unethical for health workers to forgo COVID shots?
On [July 13], seven health organizations—including the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, the Association for Professionals in Epidemiology and ...
Children are the ‘final frontier’ for COVID shots, and many parents are resistant. But not these, and here’s why
Toddlers and babies as young as 6 months old are testing Covid-19 vaccines to help make sure they're safe for ...
‘Give me whatever’: Republican governors and vaccine hesitators who question safety and effectiveness of ‘medically proven’ shots embrace unproven antibody therapies
[A]fter she fell ill with covid last month, [Joelle Ruppert, an unvaccinated] Florida preschool teacher, found herself desperate to try ...
False COVID claims multiply — Find out the latest at Politifact’s ‘Coronavirus Fact Check’
Since its outbreak in Wuhan, China, in late 2019, the virus officially known as SARS-CoV-2 and the disease COVID-19 have ...
And the death count keeps growing: At least four vaccine-bashing conservative talk show hosts have died of COVID complications
[Marc] Bernier was at least the fourth talk-radio host who had espoused anti-vaccine and anti-mask sentiments to succumb to the ...
The painful life of a long COVID victim
Most days I wake up in pain and go to bed with pain. I have vertigo, migraines and blurred vision ...
Delta won’t be the last: What challenges might future COVID variants bring?
During this pandemic, we’ve developed and deployed vaccines in real time. Meanwhile, sars-CoV-2 is replicating not in a dozen flasks ...
