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Viewpoint: Ivermectin dewormer folly — How the right fell in love with the latest bogus COVID cure
For much of the first year of the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump and his allies pushed an unproven drug, ...
Inside the quest to develop second-generation vaccines, variant-proof boosters and a shot that works against future pandemics
Even as vaccine supplies outstrip demand in the United States, the scientific quest for coronavirus shots has scarcely eased. In ...
And the death count keeps growing: At least four vaccine-bashing conservative talk show hosts have died of COVID complications
[Marc] Bernier was at least the fourth talk-radio host who had espoused anti-vaccine and anti-mask sentiments to succumb to the ...
Will you come to regret not getting your child vaccinated? Ben Franklin did — his son died of smallpox
Five weeks had passed since the death of Benjamin Franklin’s son, and rumors were swirling. Four-year-old Francis “Franky” Franklin had ...
Is a Texas Republican politician’s vaccine denialism responsible for his own death? Here’s how the left and right fueled a partisan firestorm
When H. Scott Apley died at 45 of covid-19, he became a face of vaccine refusal by the political right ...
What’s next as FDA moves to grant full approval of COVID shots: Changing vaccine hesitant minds or more employee mandates?
The Food and Drug Administration on [August 23] offered its first full authorization for a coronavirus vaccine — the Pfizer-BioNTech ...
Far right targets recruits to government conspiracy theories from vaccine skeptics
Far-right groups across the nation have aligned themselves with those opposed to masks and vaccines, seeking new allies around the ...
‘I am sorry for the pain this caused Black former NFL players and families’: How ‘race-norming’ brain injuries cost players tens of millions of dollars
When the settlement in the landmark NFL class-action concussion litigation was finalized in 2017, and the league agreed to pay ...
Delta strain prompts NFL players to recommend tighter coronavirus restrictions
The NFL Players Association told its membership [August 4] that it will propose re-tightening the sport’s coronavirus protocols and testing ...
COVID vaccine mandates at public universities legally challenged after George Mason professor files suit
A law-school professor filed a lawsuit [August 4] challenging George Mason University’s coronavirus vaccine mandate, arguing it is unnecessarily coercive ...
‘Covid exposed so much that was broken’: How can we remake our post-pandemic food system?
The United States spends $1.1 trillion a year on food. But when the impacts of the food system on different ...
Viewpoint: Why attacks on the concept of ‘objective truth’ are escalating
Attacks on the concept of objective truth are not new. Left-wing attacks on objectivity date at least to the 1970s, ...
Vaccine rejectionism takes hold as a Republican litmus test
What began as “vaccine hesitancy” has morphed into outright vaccine hostility, as conservatives increasingly attack the White House’s coronavirus message, ...
73% drop in HIV infections over the past 40 years
HIV infections have declined by 73 percent nationwide since peaking in the mid-1980s, according to the Centers for Disease Control ...
‘Cutting nickel-size holes in your skull and plunging in metal-tipped electrodes’: Could deep brain stimulation cure drug addiction?
After nearly two decades of hardcore drug addiction — after overdoses and rehabs and relapses, homelessness and dead friends and ...
Does your college require a COVID shot to return this fall? It mostly depends if you are in a red or blue state
More than 500 colleges and universities plan to require coronavirus vaccination for at least some of their students and employees, ...
The horrific scale of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre has not been fully catalogued — until now, using forensic analysis of remains found in a mass grave
Forensic scientists and archaeologists investigating a mass grave near the site of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre have unearthed skeletal ...
Find coffee bitter? Taste-linked gene identified that could be protecting millions of people from getting COVID
People’s perception of taste (coffee tasting very bitter, slightly bitter or not bitter at all, for example) has been known ...
Vaccine disinformation and conspiracy theories run wild in California among Mexican farm workers. Here’s what’s being done to address that
For months, anti-vaccine conspiracy theories had ripped across northern California’s wine country, invisible wildfires of untruth spreading through some of ...
While much of the world moves towards mandatory vaccine passports, the US rejects them. Here is a less intrusive alternative that could enhance public safety: CDC vaccination cards
Rather than waste any more time squabbling over passports, which aren’t going to be created at a national level, let’s ...
Viewpoint: Reassessing the reassessments of COVID’s origins — The Wuhan lab leak theory is still the less likely scenario but we may never know for sure
How did the pandemic start? From the early days, experts have considered two possibilities. Either the virus somehow escaped from ...
COVID-19 may have arrived in US as early as December 2019, NIH says
[A] new report, published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, bolsters earlier studies indicating the virus entered the country under ...
After a fertility clinic freezer filled with 3,500 frozen eggs and embryos malfunctioned, many families lost their only chance at having kids. A jury just awarded them $15 million in damages
[In March 2018, a] tank storing frozen human embryos and eggs at Pacific Fertility Center in San Francisco had failed, ...
Video: China boasted about its bat cave virus research — before denying its existence. Here’s the government’s propaganda short issued in December, weeks before the outbreak became public
In [a video released by the Chinese government,] researchers scale [a] cavern wall, their headlamps ghostly blue. “If our skin ...
‘They can put a key on their forehead. It sticks’: Ohio GOP embraces crackpot doctor’s view that COVID vaccines magnetize people and interface with 5G towers
[Cleveland-based doctor Sherri Tennpenny, an] anti-vaccination advocate known for spreading unfounded claims falsely told legislators that [COVID shots] could leave ...
Russia approves first animal COVID vaccine to protect vulnerable species and thwart viral mutations
While many scientists say the virus causing covid-19 initially jumped from bats to humans, perhaps through another intermediary, infections have ...
FDA approves first Alzheimer’s drug in nearly 20 years — but some experts say there’s not enough evidence it actually works
[On June 7, the FDA approved Alzheimer’s drug aducanumab,] the first drug cleared that is designed to alter the course ...
‘It’s out-competing other viruses’: Killer Indian COVID strain spreads dark cloud over growing global recovery
India [has] set another coronavirus milestone. [On May 19th], authorities announced the country had recorded more than 4,500 deaths from ...
