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Vaccine diplomacy: China poised to introduce first COVID shots to Latin America, increasing its regional influence
China is actively making “deals to try to get the vaccine deployed and employed” around the globe to stop the ...
As COVID is transmitted via airborne particles, there’s no evidence that sanitizing surfaces lowers risk of infection
All over the world, workers are soaping, wiping and fumigating surfaces with an urgent sense of purpose: to fight the ...
Viewpoint: If you care about science and the well-being of our children, don’t close schools
We should not be going to public events. We should not be eating indoors at restaurants. We should not be ...
Women and HIV: 6 shots a year shown to be more effective than daily pill
Women have had only one approved option for pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, a course of drugs taken to prevent contracting ...
After a vaccine or infection, how long will immunity to COVID last? It could be years, hopeful new data suggest
Eight months after infection, most people who have recovered still have enough immune cells to fend off the virus and prevent ...
Childhood asthma linked to maternal depression during pregnancy
Researchers had the parents of 4,231 children fill out well-validated questionnaires on psychological stress in the second trimester of pregnancy, ...
Long hauler phenomenon explained? In some COVID survivors, normally protective antibodies turn on their own cells
At some point, the body’s defense system in [some COVID survivors shifts] into attacking itself, rather than the virus, [a ...
Viewpoint: Not all the COVID news is gloomy
Clearly, the pandemic has not ended. So far some 215,000 Americans have lost their lives to the coronavirus, and reliable estimates suggest ...
First new human organs found in three centuries – camera-shy salivary glands in your head
A team of researchers in the Netherlands has discovered what may be a set of previously unidentified organs: a pair ...
Brain fog: COVID’s lingering threat
It’s becoming known as Covid brain fog: troubling cognitive symptoms that can include memory loss, confusion, difficulty focusing, dizziness and ...
Video: Viewpoint: The US wrote the global playbook on the coronavirus and then ignored it
A year ago, the United States was regarded as the country best prepared for a pandemic. Our government had spent ...
How COVID causes delirium
[A]bout half of [COVID] patients report neurological symptoms, including headaches, confusion and delirium, suggesting the virus may also attack the ...
Why intermittent fasting often doesn’t work
Many followers of the [intermittent fasting] diet, which has been popularized in best-selling diet books and touted by celebrities, routinely ...
Are vaccines now in development safe? The companies making them uniformly won’t release data
It’s standard for drug companies to withhold details of clinical trials until after they are completed, tenaciously guarding their intellectual ...
Controversial Great Barrington ‘focused protection’ herd immunity declaration finds support at the White House
Many experts say “herd immunity” — the point at which a disease stops spreading because nearly everyone in a population ...
‘Editing Humanity’: Kevin Davies’ new book on CRISPR, the ‘miracle of our age’
“The Crispr story has arrived for the grand telling as a miracle of our age,” the [MIT Technology Review announced ...
From confusion to comas: ⅓ of hospitalized COVID patients suffered deteriorating neurological function
Nearly a third of hospitalized Covid-19 patients experienced some type of altered mental function — ranging from confusion to delirium ...
Revolt escalates over Notre Dame president’s admitted ‘poor judgement’ in ignoring university guidelines at White House ‘super spreader’ event
The Rev. John I. Jenkins, [Notre Dame’s] president and a 66-year-old Catholic priest with degrees in philosophy and divinity, was ...
Viewpoint: Evolution works – just look at the ‘success’ of the coronavirus
The scope and the devastation of the pandemic reflect bad luck, yes, and a dangerous world, yes, but also catastrophic ...
COVID long haulers face crushing mental roller-coaster
Early on in the pandemic, a pervasive myth among patients and some health authorities was the idea that Covid-19 was ...
Stockholm syndrome revisited: As Sweden’s COVID rate flattens and masks disappear, experts ponder ‘no lockdown’ blueprint
Normalcy has never been more contentious than in Sweden. Almost alone in the Western world, the Swedes refused to impose ...
COVID ‘infodemic’: 38 million article Cornell study finds President Trump ‘largest driver’ of coronavirus misinformation and conspiracy theories
Of the flood of misinformation, conspiracy theories and falsehoods seeding the internet on the coronavirus, one common thread stands out: ...
China sidesteps global safety norms, injecting thousands with potentially risky COVID vaccines
The world still lacks a proven coronavirus vaccine, but that has not stopped Chinese officials from trying to inoculate tens ...
COVID logistics nightmare: Developing a vaccine might be easy compared to shipping vials at -112°F to hundreds of millions of people around the globe
Drug companies will have to develop a safe and effective vaccine. Billions of people will have to consent to vaccination ...
Biden says he would revive US project to track animal viruses shelved by Trump administration last year
Joseph R. Biden Jr. has promised that, if elected, he will restore [a] program, called Predict, which searched for dangerous new ...
COVID vaccines for children need to be vetted more carefully and may not be ready for a full year
Thanks to the U.S. government’s Operation Warp Speed and other programs, a number of Covid-19 vaccines for adults are already in advanced ...
Pediatrician on her personal awakening as mother of a transgender daughter
Being a pediatrician and mother of three, I didn’t think there were many parenting scenarios that could catch me unprepared ...
Protective ‘herd immunity’ may come a lot sooner than predicted
To achieve so-called herd immunity — the point at which the virus can no longer spread widely because there are ...
