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China and other countries across Asia have limited scourge of COVID infections — but they are falling behind the West in vaccination rates
Most Asian countries have administered doses to less than 3% of their populations, while mainland China and Hong Kong have ...
Scientifically questionable 10-day pause of J&J vaccine has deepened hesitancy
The 10-day halt in administering Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine has made it harder to inoculate the hard-to-reach and hesitant, ...
Over the next decade, CRISPR and other forms of gene editing could help people with rare disorders — and millions more with heart disease, diabetes, and chronic pain
In the next decade, Crispr-Cas9 and other new gene-editing techniques may protect the health [of] millions of people with a ...
Going maskless: CDC lifts almost all recommendations for mask wearing and physical distancing for the fully vaccinated
Fully vaccinated people don’t need to wear a mask or physically distance during outdoor or indoor activities, large or small, ...
Lab-grown creations called chimeras are celebrated as science breakthroughs — but they are also a cause for concern
[R]esearchers from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., and China’s Kunming University of Science and Technology ...
With Olympics nearing, Japan reimposes emergency shutdowns in Tokyo and Osaka
With coronavirus infections rising sharply again, the governor of Tokyo said [April 20] that she planned to ask the central ...
$1,000 a shot: Fake Pfizer COVID vaccines available globally as desperation grows in countries without access
Pfizer says it has identified in Mexico and Poland the first confirmed instances of counterfeit versions of the Covid-19 vaccine ...
CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna on ‘mission driven’ science: ‘We set aside our own projects in a crash effort to fight COVID’
In a typical year, if you tried to map the trajectories of all of the scientific projects in even one ...
Viewpoint: Linking free markets to innovation is why capitalism is on the verge of defeating COVID
J&J’s road to the vaccine—from failure to life-saving success, from investment write-off to breakthrough—is a little-known story about science, business ...
COVID ‘challenge trial’: Coronavirus survivors will be purposely reinfected to probe immunity and spur new vaccines
University of Oxford scientists plan to reinfect dozens of adult volunteers with the coronavirus in the second U.K. clinical trial ...
Vaccine skepticism is rampant among Indigenous Australians. This explains why
First Nations people like those in East Arnhem Land... are next in line in Australia’s vaccination program that began last ...
COVID-19 vaccine verification? Digitally-verified clinical data apps already in the works
A coalition that includes tech giants and healthcare providers is preparing to release global standards for mobile apps that verify ...
Can AI robots replace human therapists?
Websites, smartphone apps and social-media sites are dispensing mental-health advice, often using artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, clinicians and researchers are looking ...
Fake memories: They can be implanted — but they can also be rooted out
[S]cientists used interviews to convince some study subjects they had undergone childhood events that didn’t happen to them, such as ...
Europe is the global epicenter for COVID mismanagement and vaccine distribution — and leadership is facing political repercussions
Europe’s third wave will cost thousands of lives and billions of euros. Summer vacationers, essential to the economies of Southern ...
Masks that kill viruses? Meet the next generation of face coverings
In the near future, if you’re on a plane and the person next to you sneezes, you could be wearing ...
Viewpoint: What can we learn from the Bush Administration’s effort against AIDS as we battle COVID in developing countries?
In 2004 [AIDS] was burning across Africa. Treatments were available but expensive, and everyone wanted to expand Africa’s access to ...
Key to COVID herd immunity: Getting children vaccinated
As governments push to move past the pandemic, vaccinating children is emerging as a key obstacle, along with initially limited ...
‘We don’t need to work with BioNTech’: After a successful COVID vaccine collaboration, Pfizer plans on tackling other diseases with mRNA technology alone
Pfizer will develop new shots using the technology, called mRNA, to target other viruses and pathogens beyond the coronavirus, Chief ...
Neil deGrasse Tyson on our distrust of scientists: Why do we love our smartphones but reject science when it comes to COVID?
We have apparently passed through a portal where pseudoscience, anti-science, fear-of-science and science-denial all thrive in our culture. Where systems ...
‘When, where and how’: WHO report on COVID’s origins leaves many unanswered questions
A World Health Organization-led team investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic said in a report that data examined during ...
WSJ Viewpoint: Europe looks like the Keystone Kops in its bungled vaccine rollout
Protectionism, mercantilism, bureaucratic ineptitude, lack of political accountability, crippling safety-ism—it’s all here. The Keystone Kops in Brussels and European capitals ...
Is psychedelic-assisted group therapy the wave of the future?
Researchers are beginning to investigate psychedelic-assisted group therapy as a way to let patients connect more deeply, exploring the inner ...
How business is battling employee vaccine denialism and doubt
Across industries, business leaders are turning to all-hands staff meetings, video memos and other workplace forums to address skepticism about ...
More than 80% of Russian-originated tweets on US COVID vaccines are negative. Here is the story of Putin’s disinformation campaign
An official with the State Department’s Global Engagement Center, which monitors foreign disinformation efforts, identified four publications that he said ...
Infographic: Deaths from COVID-19 are far higher than reported estimates
More than 2.8 million people have lost their lives due to the pandemic, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis ...
Infographic: South Africa sees surprising drop in COVID-19 cases and deaths despite presence of more infectious and dangerous variant
Since mid-January, confirmed Covid-19 infections in South Africa have fallen from a record of nearly 22,000 a day to around ...
Europe at a tipping point? Coronavirus gloom deepens as vaccine rollout lags, COVID resurges
Contagion is rising again in much of the EU, despite months of restrictions on daily life, as more-virulent virus strains ...
