Outbreak
Why Joe Rogan is wrong about COVID mutations: ‘Evolution is, right now, occurring in the body of people who are not vaccinated’
Joe Rogan’s public misrepresentation of a 2015 vaccine study has gone viral. His misunderstanding of the study leads Rogan to ...
‘Two Americas’: How politics will shape our emergence from the pandemic
Newton, [Massachusetts] is an outlier even among outliers: More than 95 percent of people older than 30 have gotten at ...
Do we need a new COVID vaccine to fight new and potentially more lethal variants?
The rapid spread of the delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 has put more patients in hospital beds and led to reinstatements ...
Mice: The intrepid soldiers helping us fight COVID-19
As highly infectious variants of COVID-19 emerge and devastate regions across the world, scientists continue to rely on unexpected foot ...
Viewpoint: Republicans rally around Big Government controls, push top down, federal and statewide bans of local student vaccine and mask mandates
Seven Republican-led states have banned schools from requiring masks in the classroom. Ted Cruz and fellow Republican senator Kevin Cramer ...
What will Covid look like in the years ahead? Young children could be most vulnerable to new variants
Researchers predict SARS-CoV-2 could become endemic and primarily infect children, thereby shifting risk from older people to toddlers too young ...
Analysis: From horse dewormer to darling of the desperate — Here’s how the ivermectin disinformation train got rolling
[Editor's note: There has been a growing in the medical community about the surge in interest and use of the ...
Israel’s early COVID vaccine rollout went 1100% better than in the United States. What did they do differently?
[As of January 8, we had only] vaccinated 1.38% of our population [in the United States, while Israel had] vaccinated ...
We might be living with COVID risks for years to come
There’s a growing consensus among health experts: Covid-19 may never go away. We’ll likely always have some coronavirus out there, ...
Here are 6 of the most outrageous misconceptions circulating online about COVID vaccines
There are many reasons some Americans may be hesitant to receive the vaccine – some of which are based on ...
Vaccine mandates in schools are nothing new — they trace back to the 1800s
Several states, including Florida, Alabama, Arizona, Indiana, Montana, Ohio, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Utah have already enacted legislation to ban public ...
Delta surge sparks spike in virus disinformation
Coronavirus misinformation has spiked online in recent weeks, misinformation experts say, as people who peddle in falsehoods have seized on ...
New data suggest October 2019 could be SARS-CoV-2’s origin date. Here’s the timeline
A joint WHO study by Chinese and international researchers identified 174 SARS-CoV-2 infections throughout December, with the earliest going back ...
Video fact check: Renegade former British police officer rouses crowd with false claims that COVID vaccines hospitalize people
Footage of a British man making already debunked allegations about the SARS-CoV-2 virus and COVID-19 vaccines has spread rapidly on ...
How many COVID-19 academic papers have been retracted, and why? Here’s the growing list
We’ve been tracking retractions of papers about COVID-19 as part of our database. Here’s a running list, which will be ...
Fact check: Breakthrough infections from Delta or other COVID variants does not mean vaccines don’t work
Endless news cycles and viral social media warn of “breakthrough infections” in people already vaccinated for COVID-19. These reports leave ...
Can vaccine incentives break down COVID shot resistance?
While most people have got their vaccines, a still sizeable minority have not — and motivating them to do so ...
Is a Texas Republican politician’s vaccine denialism responsible for his own death? Here’s how the left and right fueled a partisan firestorm
When H. Scott Apley died at 45 of covid-19, he became a face of vaccine refusal by the political right ...
What’s next as FDA moves to grant full approval of COVID shots: Changing vaccine hesitant minds or more employee mandates?
The Food and Drug Administration on [August 23] offered its first full authorization for a coronavirus vaccine — the Pfizer-BioNTech ...
How the vaccinated have convinced their hesitant loved ones to get a COVID shot
We asked the BuzzFeed Community to share how they convinced the vaccine skeptics in their life to get vaccinated for ...
Public split on how to address Delta surge: Most favor mandatory masks but cautious on requiring vaccinations for kids
As the spread of the delta variant threatens the safety of classrooms, a poll released [August 11] found nearly two-thirds ...
Did COVID-19 originate in a laboratory? Many scientists still harbor questions
Nikolai Petrovsky was scrolling through social media after a day on the ski slopes when reports describing a mysterious cluster of ...
We have numerous vaccines, but still no effective COVID treatments. Why not?
Nearly a year and a half into the pandemic, researchers are still struggling to find effective, easy-to-use drugs to treat ...
Delta has disrupted the timeline for corralling COVID. What can we expect now in the months ahead?
In May, after the CDC ended indoor masking for vaccinated people, President Joe Biden gave a speech that felt like ...
60% of Fox News’ COVID shot segments include vaccine denialism: Media Matters study
Despite Fox News’ public-relations campaign to rebrand its poor vaccine coverage, its reporting has worsened: In a six-week period from ...
Delta variant tricks: Will the coronavirus continue to outsmart attempts to contain it?
The race between the evolution of the virus and the vaccination of human beings boils down to a math problem ...
Under what legal conditions can governments and businesses mandate vaccines?
Whether a vaccine requirement is legal will depend on who is imposing it and how they have shaped it. Mandates ...
