Outbreak
Infographic: Deaths from COVID-19 are far higher than reported estimates
More than 2.8 million people have lost their lives due to the pandemic, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis ...
51,418 times higher — For one surviving baby infected with a new COVID variant, their viral load was astronomical. What might this portend?
[O]ne newborn [treated for COVID at the Children’s National Hospital in DC] was unusual. The baby was very sick, for ...
Half of US travelers say they prefer to visit destinations that require COVID vaccines
Of the Americans who are interested in traveling in 2021, the majority (76%) are as likely, if not more, to ...
Slideshow: COVID-19 myths keep coming. Here’s how to separate fact from conspiracy
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Infographic: South Africa sees surprising drop in COVID-19 cases and deaths despite presence of more infectious and dangerous variant
Since mid-January, confirmed Covid-19 infections in South Africa have fallen from a record of nearly 22,000 a day to around ...
COVID’s Achilles’ heel: Will the DNA of disease-resistant patients offer clues to blocking the virus?
Mayana Zatz, director of the Human Genome Research Centre at the University of São Paulo has identified 100 couples, where ...
Vaccine refusal mania has captured entire indigenous communities in Mexico
In Aldama, a small town of about 7,000 located in the central highlands of the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, ...
Herd immunity is the key to controlling COVID. How many people need to get the vaccine?
It has been clear for a while that, at least in the U.S., the only way out of the coronavirus ...
Will Trump-country, vaccine-hesitant Republicans block the US from reaching herd immunity?
[U]nlike many at-risk Americans seeking safety and an end to the pandemic, [80-year-old retiree] Margaret refuses to get a coronavirus ...
‘Crisis of confidence’: What’s causing the panic around AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine?
AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine is facing a crisis of confidence, with one European country after another, as if seized by a ...
Europe at a tipping point? Coronavirus gloom deepens as vaccine rollout lags, COVID resurges
Contagion is rising again in much of the EU, despite months of restrictions on daily life, as more-virulent virus strains ...
Simulation: Here’s how herd immunity works
When you click "Run Simulation" [below], you are witnessing how a disease can spread through a population and how increased ...
Do you need two vaccine shots if you’ve already been infected with COVID?
Six recent studies suggest that people who've already come down with COVID-19 might not need to get a second vaccine ...
How churches and community groups are responding to vaccine hesitancy among Black Americans
[West Baltimore resident Reverend Derrick] DeWitt is a field marshal in the local war against poverty, disease and hunger. "My ...
Infographic: Is COVID here to stay? Why the virus may never be eradicated
Nature asked more than 100 immunologists, infectious-disease researchers and virologists working on the coronavirus whether it could be eradicated. Almost ...
Vaccine clinical research trials skewed towards White Americans, marginalizing minorities, study finds
An analysis of the demographics of a decade’s worth of vaccine clinical trials has found that Black Americans, Latinos, American ...
Going forward, taming COVID may depend more on logistics and administration than science
The US can emerge from the depths of the COVID-19 crisis in the coming months if the federal government leads ...
Decades-long battle over GMOs can teach scientists how to combat COVID conspiracies in Africa
As the second wave of COVID-19 sweeps across Africa, bringing steep increases in infections and deaths, the battle between facts and conspiracies – ...
The Anti-Vaxx Playbook: Exposing the 5-step anti-vaxx conversion program escalating the COVID pandemic. Its proponents include Barbara Loe Fisher, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Sherri Tenpenny
The Anti-Vaxx Playbook is based on in-depth analysis of speeches and presentations by leading digital anti-vaccine advocates at a meeting ...
Virus wars: The evolutionary battle between humans and COVID-19
The past (horrible, tragic, no-good, very bad) year might have seemed like a straightforward battle between scientists and a virus ...
When it comes to COVID, identical doesn’t always mean the same: Twins got COVID together but their illnesses followed different trajectories
Early last spring, [twin] sisters from Rochester, Mich., checked themselves into the hospital with fevers and shortness of breath. While ...
Republicans, young people and minorities: How to persuade the vaccine hesitant to get a COVID shot
As the United States screams past 500,000 fatalities, the choice between a deadly disease and a shot in the arm ...
‘You can’t be in Tuskegee and not have the syphilis study in the back of your mind’: Understanding Black COVID vaccine hesitancy
Beginning in the 1930s, federal officials enrolled hundreds of Black men in Tuskegee in an experiment to examine the effects ...
COVID-19 Survival Guide: The virus will be with us forever. Here’s how we can adapt
Eventually—years or even decades in the future—COVID-19 could transition into a mild childhood illness, like the four endemic human coronaviruses ...
Apocalyptic and conspiratorial views are escalating as the pandemic persists
Since ancient times, pandemics have spurred sharp turns in political beliefs, spawning extremist movements, waves of mistrust and wholesale rejection ...
Video: Between Us, About Us — Black healthcare workers challenge misinformation and spread encouraging news about COVID-19 vaccines
The Conversation: Between Us, About Us is a new campaign to provide Black communities with credible information about the COVID-19 ...
‘A golden age of vaccinology’: Gene-based vaccines can combat infectious diseases of the future
Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine, which was authorized [February 27] for use in the U.S., is at the vanguard of ...
