Outbreak
9 out of 10 COVID deaths are in people over 65, reviving questions about what we consider to be ‘acceptable loss’
More than 300 people are still dying each day on average from covid-19, most of them 65 or older, according ...
Next generation monoclonal antibody treatments target elusive mutating COVID virus
In the evolutionary chess match between the coronavirus and humans, scientists’ next move can’t come soon enough for the millions ...
Genes play larger role in how we respond to COVID than originally thought
Getting COVID-19 can feel a little like playing roulette: It causes colds for some, but severe disease and death for ...
‘A finite pool of worry’: Why humans are unable to focus on climate change and the pandemic at the same time
It's safe to say that the first two years of the pandemic left a lot of people exhausted and emotionally ...
Are Americans too complacent about a winter surge of COVID infections — and deaths?
To the old saying about the inevitability of death and taxes, we should add another: another health crisis linked to ...
Mini-brain organoids the size of pinheads help scientists decipher the impact of long COVID
In a new study published in Molecular Psychiatry, researchers from Sweden and a Harvard-affiliated hospital in Boston tried to find ...
Only 38% of eligible kids have received COVID shots. Here’s how misinformation is keeping the numbers low
Nearly all Americans have been eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccines since June, with the vast majority having gained access at ...
Debate erupts over necessity of ‘risky’ viral research
When researchers at Boston University (BU) in Massachusetts inserted a gene from the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 into a strain ...
‘Children of Omicron’: What public health threats lie ahead as COVID evolves?
Throughout the pandemic, the virus that causes COVID-19 has been evolving fast, blindsiding the world with one variant after another ...
COVID research transparency: Lab loopholes can lead to unnecessarily risky experiments. What can be done?
Scientists at Boston University came under fire this week for an experiment in which they tinkered with the Covid virus ...
First large-scale long COVID study finds nearly half of survivors experience lingering symptoms
Ask anyone who has experienced the lingering maladies of the pandemic, and they’ll tell you long covid is no figment ...
‘Omicron has started to splinter’: Winter COVID wave may come with a ‘dizzying barrage’ of new variants
The last big variant of concern — the hypertransmissible Omicron offshoot known as BA.5 — peaked in July. Since then, ...
Immunity boost: Some people with ‘lucky genes’ may get an extra strong protection from COVID shots
Researchers analysed blood samples from people who took part in five different trials, including 1,600 adults who had either the ...
What happens if a nurse spreads fake COVID facts — and what counts as misinformation?
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many healthcare membership associations and organizations took a stance on the spread of misinformation by licensed ...
How might COVID evolve this fall? Here are 3 possible scenarios, and none is great
As the United States enters a third fall with COVID-19, the virus for many is seemingly gone — or at ...
Here comes COVID winter 3. What can we expect?
Hospitals nationwide are preparing for another winter with Covid — the first one that's also expected to include high levels ...
‘The third time might not be the charm’: Is there a limit to how many times you can get COVID?
One wonders whether the cycle could continue forever—whether many of us will eventually get covid for a fourth time, or a fifth, ...
A common flu strain all but vanished last winter. Could COVID have pushed it to extinction?
Many subtypes of the influenza virus all but vanished. But most notably, one entire lineage—one of only four flu groups ...
How the coronavirus pandemic flipped uber-liberal Marin County from vaccine rejectionist hub to shaming COVID vaccine skeptics
In the pandemic age, getting a Covid-19 shot has become the defining “vax” or “anti-vax” litmus test, and on that ...
How safe are the new COVID vaccine boosters?
In case you haven’t heard, there’s now a new set of vaccine booster shots that protect against the latest variant ...
‘Olfactory training’: 5% of COVID survivors have long-lasting smell and taste problems. Here’s what can help recover their senses
Without smell, you may not recognize the telltale signs of fires, natural gas leaks, poisonous chemicals or spoiled food and ...
Why do some people suffer mild COVID while it debilitates others? Gene variant plays decisive role
It may be the most baffling quirk of COVID: What manifests as minor, flu-like symptoms in some individuals spirals into ...
‘Blood on your hands’: WHO says richer nations cannot back away from helping the developing world still coping with COVID
If rich nations think the pandemic is over, they should help lower-income countries reach that point too, a senior World ...
When will we see a combined annual shot for flu and COVID? Moderna CEO talks about dual shot timeline and research on personalized cancer vaccine
Moderna Inc. didn’t have an approved product before the pandemic hit. Now it is a household name, as the maker of ...
Q&A on the future of versatile mRNA-based vaccine development
Robert Langer, ScD, is the David H. Koch Institute professor at MIT and a co-founder of Moderna, the pharmaceutical company ...
Beyond brain fog: COVID infection linked to variety of neurological diseases, including epilepsy, dementia, psychosis
People who got COVID have a higher risk of developing brain disorders such as dementia, psychosis, and brain fog two ...
Here’s why researchers believe COVID shot mandates are fueling a backlash, undermining vaccine education
Research going back many years has shown that vaccine mandates tend to backfire. Forcing people to get shots they don't ...
