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Making the leap from ‘no’ to ‘yes’: Here’s why some vaccine hesitators decided to get a shot
Kim Simmons, a 61-year-old small-business owner in Illinois, vividly remembers the moment she went from vaccine skeptic to vaccine-ready: watching ...
Vaccine advertising moonshot: Behind the scenes of the campaign to convince Americans to get the COVID shot
The question of whether to vaccinate sits at the center of America’s deepest sources of discontent: political hatred, racial injustice, ...
50,000 athletes and visitors could descend on Tokyo for the Summer Olympics with COVID cases rising and just 1% of the population fully vaccinated. Japan is worried
The International Olympic Committee [recently] unveiled updated plans for holding the Summer Games in Japan, meticulous “playbooks” that promise to ...
A race against time: One biologist’s mission to ‘fight climate change with plant genetics’ before her Parkinson’s disease advances
People needed to find new ways to grow plants — and soon. The scientist’s urgency came not only from what ...
Viewpoint: Critical juncture — ‘Situation getting enormously better in growing vaccinated population, while growing worse in the unvaccinated group’
Life has become even riskier for unvaccinated people, particularly those who have never had covid-19. ... While treatments for covid-19 ...
Unwitting COVID carriers: 20-college study trying to answer when it will be safe to go maskless
All three authorized vaccines in the United States offer recipients robust protection against illness, particularly the worst cases. But how ...
Robotic farming: How artificial intelligence (AI) is taking precision farming to another level
Labor costs, climate change and growing food demand are ushering in an era of machine modernization across the nation’s agricultural ...
How long does COVID vaccine immunity last? When might we need a booster?
Current research shows that people who have been infected with covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, retained immunity that ...
Healthcare workers are less likely to support vaccine mandates than the general public. What can — or should — be done?
The question of whether employers should compel their workforces to be immunized against the coronavirus is rippling through the health-care ...
Infographic: COVID rejection ideology — Vaccine skeptics are also prevention skeptics
How many Americans won’t get the vaccine? If the figure is fairly low, the ability of the virus to spread ...
‘Public health can supersede individual rights’: Government mandated vaccinations are not violations of personal liberty, courts determined a century ago
[A]s millions of Americans get vaccinated voluntarily against the coronavirus and society starts to reopen, questions loom about how far ...
‘Cancer has never been part of your story’: Cautionary tale of a misdiagnosis that wreaked havoc on a patient and his family for 35 years
Ten days [after my brain cancer surgery as a teenager,] they had removed the staples from the left side of ...
Inside the Biden Administration’s current plan to help shape ‘vaccine passports’ in the US
The [vaccine passport] initiative has emerged as an early test of the Biden administration, with officials working to coordinate across ...
Viewpoint: MAGA right targets Dr. Fauci to promote alternative reality about COVID dangers
American citizens have witnessed one of the most dramatic vindications of scientific expertise in our history. We have been healthier ...
Viewpoint: Do some of us carry ‘warrior genes’ that pry the door open to more violent behavior? Courts and scientists debate
Should a criminal defendant be allowed to argue that a specific gene rendered him unable to control his violent behavior? ...
Evolution and COVID-19: How nature is staying one step ahead of vaccines and the dangers that pose for the years ahead
As scientists work to get a handle on [COVID] variants, the situation gives the public a rare front-row seat and ...
Concussions may soon be diagnosable with a simple saliva test
A team of scientists and doctors studied more than 150 rugby players at England’s highest level between 2017 and 2019, ...
Even as restrictions on vaccine eligibility disappear, hesitancy mushrooms
Places like Mississippi that have already scrapped their eligibility rules offer the rest of the country a glimpse of the ...
QAnon followers play key role in infecting Facebook with vaccine conspiracy theories
[A new research effort by Facebook] is a large-scale attempt to understand the spread of ideas that contribute to vaccine ...
Hope for long-haulers? Vaccines quell symptoms in some patients
Some people who have spent months suffering from long-haul covid-19 are taking to social media to report their delight at ...
51,418 times higher — For one surviving baby infected with a new COVID variant, their viral load was astronomical. What might this portend?
[O]ne newborn [treated for COVID at the Children’s National Hospital in DC] was unusual. The baby was very sick, for ...
Will Trump-country, vaccine-hesitant Republicans block the US from reaching herd immunity?
[U]nlike many at-risk Americans seeking safety and an end to the pandemic, [80-year-old retiree] Margaret refuses to get a coronavirus ...
Apocalyptic and conspiratorial views are escalating as the pandemic persists
Since ancient times, pandemics have spurred sharp turns in political beliefs, spawning extremist movements, waves of mistrust and wholesale rejection ...
Best in the world — 90% of Israelis over 50 are fully vaccinated against COVID. How did Israel do it?
A rush of Israeli medical research — some emerging too fast for academic journals to keep up — reveals that ...
COVID shots and “The Mark of the Beast’? Battling religious vaccine misinformation
The Book of Revelation describes the End Time as a bloody battle filled with persecution, during which a beast forces ...
Infographic: History’s 11 deadliest plagues, from the Antonine epidemic in ancient Rome to COVID-19
The novel coronavirus took just a few months to sweep the globe. More than 2.5 million people around the world ...
First lab-grown steak is here. Will lack of regulation stymie its race to the market?
Frequently plant-based products have been patties or processed nuggets — “everyday” foods easier for companies to produce — that aim ...
Worse than COVID-19? Why the next virus might be a lot more dangerous
Since the first reports of the coronavirus began circulating nearly a year ago, the WHO has repeatedly warned that the ...
