Outbreak
As wealthier countries prepare for mass COVID vaccine rollouts, 70 poorer countries must beg for shots
The [People’s Vaccine Alliance] says that nearly 70 poor countries will only be able to vaccinate one in 10 people ...
Loss of smell, headaches, nausea and other neurological effects suggest COVID enters the brain through the nose
Although recent studies have noted the presence of viral RNA in the brain and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), it remains unclear ...
Fact check: 8 common COVID misconceptions
To help you out, we rounded up eight facts about the coronavirus to keep in mind if you see claims to ...
’25 days in China that changed the world’: How the country’s COVID bungling helped accelerate a global disaster
[The January 23 Wuhan] lockdown was the first decisive step in saving China. But in a pandemic that has since ...
Vaccines for COVID have been developed in record time. Here’s the story behind the miracle
[P]acked in dry ice were swabs from a patient who was suffering from a novel, occasionally fatal respiratory illness that ...
Africa has largely avoided the COVID scourge to date. Here’s why that may change
In South Africa, a crush of new cases that spread from Port Elizabeth is growing exponentially across the nation, with ...
Will approved vaccines stop the new South African COVID strain? Doubts emerge
Both Britain and South Africa have detected new, more transmissible variants of the COVID-19-causing virus in recent weeks that have ...
Which provides longer-lasting immunity: Getting COVID or a vaccine?
Which produces a stronger immune response: a natural infection or a vaccine? The short answer: We don’t know. But Covid-19 ...
What happens if you don’t get the second shot in a COVID vaccine two-jab regimen?
Two separate vaccines due to be released from pharmaceutical firm Pfizer and biotech Moderna appear to be more than 90% ...
COVID-19 vaccine tracker: What’s the status of all vaccines in development?
Vaccines typically require years of research and testing before reaching the clinic, but in 2020, scientists embarked on a race ...
Interactive: What’s your place in the COVID-19 vaccine line?
Health officials are considering vaccine timelines that give some Americans priority over others. If you’re a healthy American, you may ...
What you need to know about the fast-mutating strains of COVID-19
It’s still unclear how successful a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, can be. A lot will depend ...
How getting your flu shot could reduce the likelihood of a COVID infection
[A] new study suggests that there could be another key reason to get a flu jab this year: it might reduce ...
Voter fraud truthers add vaccine conspiracies to their social media disinformation efforts
As Mr. Trump’s challenges to the election’s results have been knocked down and the Electoral College has affirmed President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s ...
COVID-19 vaccine state-by-state availability tracker: When will you be able to get the shot?
The Post is tracking how many doses are expected to be delivered in the first set of Pfizer’s newly authorized ...
COVID tests often yield false results, underscoring the limits of testing to control pandemics
National coronavirus test shortages have emphasized testing’s critical role in containing and mitigating the pandemic, but these inconvenient truths remain: ...
How infectious are asymptomatic COVID carriers?
[E]vidence suggests that about one in five infected people will experience no symptoms, and they will transmit the virus to ...
Ellume: 91%+ accurate at-home COVID test given first emergency authorization in the US
The Food and Drug Administration on [December 15] issued an emergency authorization for the country’s first coronavirus test that can run from ...
COVID vaccine made from GMO tobacco? It’s now in human trials
While large pharmaceutical companies are already producing vaccines, [the company British American Tobacco] believes its own can be produced in ...
Viewpoint: COVID won’t subside in the US until 70% of us are immune. That means: ‘Get a vaccine’
The United States is one of the most seriously COVID-19-impacted countries, faring the worst among the ten most-affected countries worldwide, as ...
COVID could come back with a vengeance in mutated forms, jumping back and forth between animals and humans
Coronavirus could potentially leap to other animals, such as rats, mice, ferrets and voles, as well as mink, an expert ...
How most of Europe has kept schools open safely during the current COVID surge
Most of Europe kept schools open even during a worst-on-the-planet second wave of infections this fall. And still, schools appear to ...
Pfizer vaccine data offer hope for a return to normalcy
[A]dvisors to the US Food and Drug Administration voted in favor of emergency authorization for Pfizer’s covid-19 shot, and the data in ...
Foreshadowing repeat of spring chaos, Trump Administration leaves vaccine distribution to individual states
Federal and state officials agree that the nation’s 21 million health care workers should be first in line [for a ...
School children will not get a COVID vaccine in time for the next school year, experts believe
Children’s immune responses are different from that of adults, so there is a consensus that pediatric [COVID vaccine] trials are ...
37%-to-60% of Americans say they are not sure they will get a vaccine. If that resistance holds, we won’t reach ‘herd immunity’ and COVID will not go away
The World Health Organization estimates that 65 to 70 percent of a given population must be vaccinated to halt the spread of ...
‘We never got it under control’: COVID modelers say case surge in US and Europe is more than just another wave
The consensus among major Covid-19 modelers is that we could see 20,000 to 25,000 deaths in just the next two ...
