Outbreak
Globalization of disease: COVID has sparked bioarchaeological investigations of epidemics in prior centuries. What have we learned?
The previous pandemics to which people often compare COVID-19 – the influenza pandemic of 1918, the Black Death bubonic plague (1342-1353), the Justinian ...
Infographic: Fox vs MSNBC vs CNN — How media preferences shaped the COVID culture war
The key factor determining how Americans have handled COVID-19 — more than race, education or even political affiliation — is ...
Evusheld mystery: 7 million Americans are immunocompromised — but a drug that could protect the vulnerable against severe COVID is going unused
As much of the nation unmasks amid plummeting caseloads and fresh hope that the pandemic is fading, the Biden administration ...
More disappointing news on ivermectin: Largest trial to date shows no reduction in COVID hospitalizations
Researchers testing repurposed drugs against Covid-19 found that ivermectin didn’t reduce hospital admissions, in the largest trial yet of the ...
Rumors swirling around the web that COVID vaccines spawn variants. Here’s why that’s not true
Are COVID vaccines responsible for creating the multiple variants that keep hitting the world? I get this question all the ...
How did children fare at schools that all but ignored mask mandates? Pretty well, it turns out
As school systems around the country were battening down for their first remote start-of-school in the fall of 2020, the ...
COVID immunity — for both those who got shots or contracted the virus — is waning. What dangers does that pose?
As the U.S. experiences a dip in COVID-19 cases and mask mandates are being lifted, some have voiced concerns about ...
18.2 million deaths globally: World COVID death toll likely three times higher than current data claim
The global COVID-19 death toll may be three times higher than official tallies suggest, according to a systematic analysis of ...
When will the pandemic be over? Not when the CDC or WHO decides
All pandemics end eventually. But how, exactly, will we know when the COVID-19 pandemic is really “over”? It turns out ...
Viewpoint: ‘Bobby’s lies and fear-mongering were sickening and repulsive’ — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s emergence as feckless anti-vaccine conspiracist rattles family and friends
Once a top environmental lawyer who led the charge to clean up the Hudson River in New York, the third ...
What’s the likelihood of developing universal broad spectrum coronavirus vaccine?
Individual researchers from eclectic fields are finding new ways to prevent future pandemics. Artem Babaian, PhD, a computational biologist at ...
Part II: How COVID upended the taboo on limiting constructive discussion about human biodiversity
The coronavirus crisis has brought to light the societal downside of ignoring patterned, population-based differences. Consider the latest research findings ...
Tinnitus and COVID vaccines: Cases grow prompting calls for more research
It's now known that tinnitus may be an unexpected side effect of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination, and there is an urgent need ...
Social reckoning? Do we need cathartic nationwide acknowledgement of COVID’s horrific death and injury toll?
On May 24, 2020, as the United States passed 100,000 recorded deaths, The New York Times filled its front page ...
‘Deltacron’: New COVID variant arrives in US after showing up in Europe. What are the risks?
A potential new COVID-19 variant, a combination of the delta and omicron variants – you can call it "deltacron" – ...
Here’s how COVID attacks your ability to smell
Few of Covid-19’s peculiarities have piqued as much interest as anosmia, the abrupt loss of smell that has become a ...
The COVID myth that refuses to die — No, none of the coronavirus vaccines alters your brain DNA
As repetitive as I have been with respect to this, there is nothing new under the sun when it comes ...
US lags behind in providing COVID vaccine support to COVAX initiative
As Congress and the administration debate future funding for the global COVID-19 response, including for vaccines, we looked at how the ...
COVID virus variants may be ‘hiding’ and evolving in your organs
It looks like coronavirus variants can hide out in the human body much like some of their viral cousins do, ...
Reassessing what the US did right and wrong in managing the pandemic
As the nation exhales at the sight of descending curves of Covid-19 infections and deaths, top global health experts assessed ...
Even mild COVID can cause visible changes in the brain
Catching Covid may cause changes to the brain, a study suggests. Scientists found significant differences in MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) ...
What has COVID taught us about shaping ideal vaccine policy going forward?
Employers, the federal government, the military, schools, and colleges have a vested interest in keeping their personnel healthy, reducing absenteeism, ...
New COVID variant? Here’s why animals remain a possible source
It is important, for both human and animal health, to know what species are susceptible to infection by the coronavirus ...
A chewing gum to reduce the effects of COVID? Scientists say it’s a real possibility
A type of chewing gum mixed with a protein that is a gateway for infections with the novel coronavirus, or ...
Will you need a second COVID booster shot? Probably not.
As people across the world grapple with the prospect of living with the coronavirus for the foreseeable future, one question ...
Ivermectin doesn’t work: Yet another study shows no efficacy in reducing COVID disease progression
Ivermectin failed to prevent older adults with COVID-19 from progressing to severe disease compared with standard of care alone, an ...
Next generation flu shots could be mRNA technology-based
The rapid development of mRNA-based COVID vaccines has sparked fresh interest in earlier efforts to produce new and hopefully more ...
