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Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine appears to protect against South African, UK COVID variants
[A new] study showed the immunity conferred by the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine could block a version of the virus that contained one key ...
Viewpoint: Fears grow that Trump’s anti-science extremism could fuel rise in creationism
Loss and humiliation do not make bad ideas go away. Rather, they can take on wilder and more outrageous forms ...
Fact check: 8 common COVID misconceptions
To help you out, we rounded up eight facts about the coronavirus to keep in mind if you see claims to ...
Viewpoint: Halo Band not ready for primetime – Amazon’s invasive wearable health tracker gets a poor review
You haven’t exercised or slept enough, reports Amazon’s $65 Halo Band. Your body has too much fat, the Halo’s app shows ...
COVID-19 vaccine state-by-state availability tracker: When will you be able to get the shot?
The Post is tracking how many doses are expected to be delivered in the first set of Pfizer’s newly authorized ...
COVID tests often yield false results, underscoring the limits of testing to control pandemics
National coronavirus test shortages have emphasized testing’s critical role in containing and mitigating the pandemic, but these inconvenient truths remain: ...
How most of Europe has kept schools open safely during the current COVID surge
Most of Europe kept schools open even during a worst-on-the-planet second wave of infections this fall. And still, schools appear to ...
Science has limits: Unraveling the medical mystery of one woman’s pelvic pains
Between 2012 and 2018, she consulted her own doctors and made eight trips to an urgent care center or emergency ...
School children will not get a COVID vaccine in time for the next school year, experts believe
Children’s immune responses are different from that of adults, so there is a consensus that pediatric [COVID vaccine] trials are ...
All leading COVID vaccines so far require two shots, making it even more challenging to contain the pandemic
As the nation gears up to vaccinate tens of millions of Americans against the novel coronavirus, public health officials… are ...
Kevin Davies’ ‘Editing Humanity’ explores the CRISPR revolution and the ethical dilemmas that await us
We cannot rewind the tape of life to see how we might have been and whether humans are inevitable products ...
Conservative media touts Danish study raising doubts about mask effectiveness. Health experts say that’s dangerous
In [a] large, randomized study published [November 18] in the Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers observed more than 6,000 people in Denmark ...
Video: Anti-COVID vaccine movement? How the Trump administration has eroded trust in science
Distrust in the Trump administration has turned into distrust of science, adding to an already powerful anti-vaccine movement. Infectious-disease epidemiologists ...
Airlines moving towards required pre-flight COVID testing to boost traveling
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to caution that even with masks, social distancing and other measures, travel ...
Seaweed could ‘neutralize’ stubborn methane emissions from cows, slowing climate change
Reducing methane from livestock, and cows in particular, has long been a goal of scientists and policymakers but is especially ...
Almost 50 years after brutal rape and murder, DNA cracks cold case, suspect commits suicide before conviction
For 47 years, the case remained cold, with little evidence of who assaulted and murdered [20-year-old Jody] Loomis — until ...
Reliable, at-home, 11 minute COVID test green lighted by FDA, available within months
Many tests take days to produce results, require leaving quarantine to visit a medical professional, or — most likely — ...
Why is it taking so long to rollout home COVID tests?
Although no single test will end the pandemic in the United States, experts say the ability for people to take ...
Pfizer COVID trial patient calls vaccine ‘miracle from the biotech revolution’
It was early August, and I had enlisted in the clinical trial for the vaccine that has just reported very ...
Why COVID kills more men than women
For every 10 women claimed by [COVID] in the United States, 12 men have died, found an analysis by Global Health 50/50, ...
Can AI save us from COVID-19? ‘If the virus had hit 20 years ago, the world might have been doomed’
Millions of gigabytes of data — the equivalent of a modest library — are being generated by the pandemic each ...
Sewage tests can predict where the next COVID surge might arise
Across the United States, scientists have been analyzing sewage water to determine how intense [COVID] outbreaks might be, given limits on testing, ...
The lure of conspiracy theories and how to protect yourself
[I]n the same way that our immune system can leave us more vulnerable to pathogens, our emotional state can make ...
There is water on the moon!
[New] research confirms long-standing theories about the existence of lunar water that could someday enable astronauts to live there for extended periods ...
Washington Post 3-part documentary series explores decades of White House preparation preceding the Trump Administration’s failed pandemic response
In a three-part documentary, The Washington Post explores why the Trump administration failed to contain the coronavirus pandemic, despite decades of preparation ...
How American COVID misinformation energized the global anti-vaccine conspiracy movement
The coronavirus crisis is energizing America’s anti-vaccine movement and expanding its reach. Even as countries and companies race to develop a safe ...
Plant-based meats can be labeled ‘burgers’ in Europe, encouraging consumers to eat fewer animal products
Veggie burger enthusiasts can rejoice after the European Parliament on [October 23] rejected a measure to ban use of the ...
A COVID tale of two universities: This historically Black Alabama college got its opening right; their mostly White neighbor flubbed it
[The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa and Birmingham campuses] were supposed to have the same clean slate when classes resumed amid ...
