Outbreak
Why we might need not annual COVID boosters
In many parts of the world, the variant’s record-breaking wave is receding. Having a bespoke vaccine in 100 days would ...
Why is COVID usually less severe in children?
Although some children do fall seriously ill after coming down with Covid-19, the most have mild symptoms or no symptoms ...
Vaccine debate: Is it dangerous for children under five to get a COVID shot?
After the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) delayed authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine last week for children under ...
Many people equate COVID with flu. Here’s why it’s more like smoking
It’s suddenly become acceptable to say that COVID is—or will soon be—like the flu. Such analogies have long been the ...
Public health officials share their views on what the coming months of the COVID outbreak might look like
As the United States approaches the second anniversary of its initial COVID-19 shutdowns, we're daring to dream about what the ...
Will the fast-spreading Omicron variant BA.2 sideline momentum to near-normal return?
As the omicron surge continues to decline in the U.S., infectious disease experts are keeping a close eye on an ...
Viewpoint: Physicians for Informed Consent has emerged as the leading voice for COVID anti-vax movement. Their science-rejectionist roots run far deeper
The website for the group Physicians for Informed Consent (PIC) reads like an apolitical, educational resource that provides information on ...
‘Paper terrorism’: Parents opposed to school mask mandates use sham legal claims to intimidate teachers
Teachers and staff members of her school district in Bethalto, Illinois, a small town outside of St. Louis, were suddenly ...
New COVID vaccine approved in Canada, made by Medicago and derived from plants
Medicago's plant-based COVID-19 vaccine is now approved by Health Canada, which will soon give Canadians the option of getting a ...
COVID ground zero: Three new studies again point to Wuhan live animal market as source of coronavirus outbreak
Scientists have released three studies that reveal intriguing new clues about how the COVID-19 pandemic started. Two of the reports ...
More than 7 million immunocompromised people in the US remain vulnerable to COVID. How should their concerns be addressed?
COVID-19 is still all around us, everywhere, and millions of people... are walking around with a compromised immune system. A ...
Danger ahead? How a COVID variant with the transmissibility of Omicron and the deadliness of SARS could emerge
As SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, has spread throughout the world, many observers have failed to take note of ...
On the path to a universal COVID vaccine
Is chasing the latest variant a viable strategy? Instead of testing and potentially deploying a new shot when a new ...
Vaccinating the elderly: An unappreciated strategy to reduce COVID deaths
No other basic fact of life matters as dramatically as age for COVID. Other common factors associated with risk—race, diabetes, ...
Tired of taking off your mask to unlock your phone? Apple’s face recognition now works when wearing face coverings
Apple Inc.’s next iPhone software update will finally address a grumble that’s been bugging users since the Covid pandemic started: ...
Babies of vaccinated mothers less likely to be hospitalized with COVID, CDC study finds
Mothers who get vaccinated against COVID-19 while pregnant are likely to pass on protection against the virus to their newborn ...
BioNTech’s audacious plan to bring portable vaccine factories to Africa and the rest of the developing world
At the heart of its site in Marburg, Germany, BioNTech is putting the finishing touches on a new kind of ...
How did the Omicron COVID variant emerge? Here are 3 theories
Omicron’s arrival in November 2021 took scientists by surprise. Not because there was a new variant on the block, but ...
4 ways to prepare for endless endemic COVID
The prospect of declaring victory is seductive at a time of widespread fatigue. Moreover, the challenge of unpredictability is daunting ...
Here are arguments for and against getting your child immunized against COVID
[Soon,] scientific advisers to the [FDA] will decide whether to endorse two doses of the vaccine for children 6 months ...
Viewpoint: Conspiratorial cognition — Anti-GMO US Right to Know plays point for ‘conspiracy activists’ pushing COVID lab leak theory and targeting virologists
From the beginning, the genomic evidence led most virologists who were investigating SARS-CoV-2 to favor a zoonotic origin involving a ...
Flurona: How likely are you to get both COVID and the flu simultaneously?
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, public health experts have worried about people getting infected with the influenza virus ...
Why will some people never get COVID — and why are they so important to researchers?
Some people don't get COVID despite being exposed to the virus — a mystery researchers are trying to unravel. Why ...
Living with chicken pox offers lessons for the COVID era
Last summer, at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an internal presentation on the coronavirus, which was leaked to ...
Substack media platform has helped anti-vaxxers pull in $2.5 million, Center for Countering Digital Hate finds
Popular email platform Substack generates some $2.5 million each year from anti-vaccine newsletters, according to a new report from the Center ...
Viewpoint: Even if dangerous variants emerge in the future, here’s a case for why it’s time to remove all restrictions
As the omicron blizzard recedes, and as more Americans itch for pandemic restrictions to be lifted, a vocal segment of the country ...
What science says about the future of COVID-19
With pandemic fatigue becoming more intense, there is increasing speculation about when the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, might become ...
