Wall Street Journal
Infographic: Well before Trump’s February partial ‘China air ban’, COVID had spent January quietly spreading across the US
The Wall Street Journal interviewed disease detectives and reviewed hundreds of pages of new research to piece together how the ...
Facing a long wait till widespread COVID vaccine availability, Europe focuses on fast antigen tests largely absent in the US
While highly accurate, PCR [COVID] tests are relatively expensive, can be carried out only by certified labs and take between ...
Vaccines free for seniors and the privately insured, but not for those without insurance, Trump administration announces
Seniors and people in private health-insurance plans are among those who won’t be charged for getting a coronavirus vaccine under ...
Viewpoint: ‘It’s not a political statement’ – Former FDA chief Scott Gottlieb calls for nationwide mask mandate
As deaths rise this winter, policy makers will have to take new steps to slow the rate of spread. There ...
Want to travel abroad? Airports and airlines prepping preflight COVID tests to circumvent 14-day quarantines
Airports and airlines are rushing to offer preflight Covid-19 testing to help passengers avoid 14-day quarantines imposed by certain states ...
US and South Korea reported first COVID cases on the same day. They managed the pandemic; US didn’t. Here’s why
South Korea halted virus transmission better than any other wealthy country during the pandemic’s early months. It was about twice as effective ...
Science paradox: How the response to the pandemic has been infected by bias, overconfidence and politics
[W]hen people started falling ill last winter with a respiratory illness, some scientists guessed that a novel coronavirus was responsible ...
False security: Many schools and businesses rely on temperature tests but COVID often not linked to fever
[E]xperts and medical groups increasingly say that [temperature testing] isn’t a good gauge of Covid-19 as many infected children and ...
Bayer, BASF claim new chemical mixed with drift-prone dicamba weedkiller can minimize off-target damage
Chemical makers Bayer AG and BASF are pushing to keep a controversial weedkiller on the market after a federal court ...
Vaccine resistance remains high, as only 20% of Americans say they would ‘get the vaccine as soon as possible’
[Many registered voters] want to wait until [a COVID vaccine] has been available for a while to see if there ...
‘Least desirable guest at any party’: Botched US COVID response puts Olympic participation in danger
[The U.S.] usually has the largest contingent of athletes at the Summer Games. And it’s the highest-value single market for ...
How Alaska set up a gold standard COVID testing operation
As the coronavirus pandemic surged across the U.S. this spring, Alaska faced a raft of unique obstacles. Despite the hurdles, Alaska was ...
COVID or the flu? How can you tell the difference?
Some symptoms of flu—as well as colds and other autumn ailments—are similar to Covid’s, making it harder to know what’s wrong ...
We underestimated the ‘diabolical’ virus: How COVID confounded science
Once inside a human cell, the new coronavirus has a rare ability to silence alarms that would normally alert the ...
Dream Bank: Analysis of 38,000 dreams yield fresh insights
In the largest digital dream study so far, researchers at Cambridge University’s Nokia Bell Labs in the U.K. recently created ...
The world was making progress against killer flus. Then COVID hit.
The number of people living in extreme poverty globally has risen 7.1% so far this year in the pandemic, according ...
How the World Health Organization fumbled its preparations for a global pandemic
The WHO spent years and hundreds of millions of dollars honing a globe-spanning system of defenses against a pandemic it ...
Artificial blood edges closer to reality, spurred by pandemic-driven shortage
While scientists have developed backups for most parts of our bodies—from prosthetic limbs to titanium teeth implants—the production of artificial ...
China gives unapproved experimental COVID-19 vaccine to hundreds of thousands of citizens
China National Biotec Group Co., a subsidiary of state-owned Sinopharm, has given two experimental vaccine candidates to hundreds of thousands of people ...
Why China’s ‘crack’ disease control agency failed to contain COVID
“I can very confidently say there won’t be another ‘SARS incident,” [China CDC director George] Gao said in a speech ...
Here’s why and how college football played on during the deadlier 1918 pandemic
The 1918-19 flu scourge was more lethal than the current coronavirus pandemic, killing 675,000 in the U.S., and was especially ...
Singapore sees 65-80% fewer dengue cases in areas where disease-fighting mosquitoes released
Releasing mosquitoes into the corridors of apartment complexes might seem like an unusual strategy for a city fighting its worst ...
Rival COVID vaccine developers issue joint pledge they will not seek government approval until immunizations proven ‘safe and effective’
Nine drugmakers said Tuesday their chief executives signed a pledge promising to not file for regulatory approval or authorization of ...
‘It’s not our job’: How Trump and Jared Kusnher created the COVID supply chaos that persists today
The Trump administration has been criticized for minimizing the threat of the virus and offering mixed messaging on mask-wearing and ...
China dangling access to COVID vaccines to other countries in diplomatic power plays
Beijing’s top officials and some of its drugmakers have begun promising early access to countries of strategic interest as it ...
Amazon Halo Band: Health and wellness tracker or useless (but clever) gadget?
[Amazon’s new health and wellness wristband and app, Amazon Halo, can] track body-fat percentage, heart rate and its users’ activity ...
How long will protective antibodies generated by a vaccine likely work?
Only a handful of vaccines generate lifetime immunity for most people, such as the ones for measles, a viral infection ...
Pandemic’s economic shock could exacerbate stagnation in emerging markets
[COVID-19 is] potentially entrenching the divide between the world’s rich and poorer parts. In the first decade of the 21st century, ...
