Outbreak
Is the US underestimating COVID reinfection risks?
As millions of Americans struggle to recover from covid and millions more scramble for the protection offered by vaccines, U.S ...
How entrenched is COVID vaccine resistance? It depends on how survey questions are asked
[H]ow many people will accept the shot? The answer might depend on how you ask the question. Four different groups ...
Vaccine passports: A threat to our freedom or a grudgingly acceptable health precaution?
The U.S., U.K. and European Union are among those considering whether to introduce a digital passport that will allow citizens ...
Anxious about getting a COVID vaccine because you don’t know what’s in it? We know a lot more about it than the safety of hot dogs
“So, you’ve been eatin’ hot dogs and chicken nuggets all your life and you don’t want the vaccine ‘cuz you ...
For some COVID victims, it’s a tortured path regaining a sense of smell
Smell is instrumental in our perception of flavors, allowing us to differentiate strawberry from raspberry ice cream and warning us ...
World War II mobilization provided groundwork for successful COVID vaccine development through Operation Warp Speed
To date, [Operation Warp Speed] has managed to produce and deliver about 50 million vaccine doses—all made in the U.S.—with ...
COVID variant warning: Brazil P.1 variant infects many who had recovered, devastating Manaus
B.1.1.7, first identified in Britain, has demonstrated the power to spread far and fast. In South Africa, a mutant called ...
‘Weird MIS-C syndrome’: Children experiencing surge in rare disease linked to COVID-19
Doctors don't know what causes it. Often kids have Covid-19 first, but not always. The novel coronavirus doesn't usually cause ...
Vitamin-D and COVID: The polarized, messy debate and whether you should consider taking it
Views on Vitamin D are almost as polarized as politics; in fact the whole debate around COVID-19 and vitamin D ...
Fact-checking site pans Wall Street Journal opinion piece claiming US could have herd immunity by April
This Wall Street Journal opinion piece, published on 18 February 2021, claimed in its headline that the U.S. will “have ...
Scientists challenge China-WHO story of COVID emergence
The controversy over the investigation organized by the World Health Organization and China about the origins of Covid-19 heated up ...
Vaccine passports: While US holds back for now, China and Europe embrace ‘digital green pass’
Many international travelers will likely need to prove they are vaccinated or free of Covid-19 if they plan trips later ...
Behind the scenes of America’s troubled COVID vaccine rollout
[W]hy is it taking so long to vaccinate Americans? The answer starts with tens of millions of Covid-19 vaccine doses ...
‘Long COVID’: One third of symptomatic survivors have long haul symptoms
About 33% of COVID-19 patients who were never sick enough to require hospitalization continue to complain months later of symptoms ...
Debunking 7 myths about the COVID vaccine
[W]idespread immunization is the fastest and best way to begin to return to a more normal way of life. Seven ...
Best in the world — 90% of Israelis over 50 are fully vaccinated against COVID. How did Israel do it?
A rush of Israeli medical research — some emerging too fast for academic journals to keep up — reveals that ...
COVID shots and “The Mark of the Beast’? Battling religious vaccine misinformation
The Book of Revelation describes the End Time as a bloody battle filled with persecution, during which a beast forces ...
Video: Here’s why COVID mutant variants are spreading so fast
As highly transmissible coronavirus variants sweep across the world, scientists are racing to understand why these new versions of the ...
Part 2: Why is Africa the global COVID-19 ‘cold spot’? — The historical challenge of disentangling genes and environment
Does greater prior exposure to pathogens, including other recent coronaviruses, help explain why Africa is a COVID-19 cold spot, despite ...
Mass vaccination campaigns are always challenging. Here’s how the US fared with a previous outbreak
On April 12, 1955, the U.S. government licensed the first vaccine against poliomyelitis, created by Dr. Jonas Salk, after scientists ...
With symptoms from rashes to strokes, is COVID a blood vessel disease?
Some of the earliest insights into how COVID-19 can act like a vascular disease came from studying the aftermath of the most ...
Defying world trends, India sees dramatic drop in COVID cases, stumping scientists
[Early on in the pandemic, COVID] infections climbed dramatically for months and at one point India looked like it might ...
Part 1: Defying all predictions, Africa is the global COVID-19 ‘cold spot’. How come health officials and the media are not honestly exploring why?
The first confirmed COVID-19 case in Africa was on February 14, 2020 in Egypt. The first in sub-Saharan Africa appeared ...
COVID evolution: ‘What other variants might be out there?’
Tracking the subtle changes to the virus’ RNA is like global detective work, requiring health officials around the world to ...
Lagging global vaccine rollout could open the door to more mutant strains, complicating recovery
The virus continues to spread rapidly in many parts of the world, even as segments of the population have gained ...
‘Spread like wildfire’: Conspiracy theories undermining COVID vaccine efforts spreading from Western countries to Africa
Anti-vaccine sentiment, often fed by rumours spread on social media, is already thriving in the West. But a similar dynamic ...
Here is COVID good news: It’s jumpstarted biomedical innovation
As we look back at the past few months, I see three lessons that health care researchers can take from ...
