Coronavirus
Viewpoint: Stanford epidemiologist John Ioannidis’ COVID-19 controversy illustrates the politicization of science
The critical questions the Stanford professor is raising about Covid-19 have gotten lost amid partisan bickering ...
‘Diagnostic conundrum’: COVID-19 pandemic has given us a lot of clinically depressed people
As a rough average, during pre-pandemic life, 5 to 7 percent of people met the criteria for a diagnosis of ...
Living at high altitudes may offer natural defense against COVID-19
Just 916 of Peru’s 141,000 cases come from the Cusco region, meaning its contagion rate is more than 80 percent ...
3 experimental COVID-19 vaccines set for critical testing phase this summer
The federal government plans to fund and conduct the decisive studies of three experimental coronavirus vaccines starting this summer, according ...
COVID-19 treatment could be ready by September if Eli Lilly’s experimental antibody therapies are a success
Eli Lilly and Co could have a drug specifically designed to treat COVID-19 authorized for use as early as September ...
Supercomputers take first steps toward replacing human clinical drug trials
We are seeing the beginnings of a profound paradigm shift in health technology. AI simulations have the potential to test ...
COVID-19 evolving to be less deadly? Experts challenge Italian doctor’s claims
Has the novel coronavirus in Italy changed in some significant way? That was the suggestion of a top doctor in ...
Ethical pros and cons of infecting healthy volunteers in quest for COVID-19 vaccine
Instead of vaccinating hundreds to thousands of people and waiting to see if they naturally catch the virus, scientists would ...
Video: How can we figure out the real fatality rate of COVID-19 and how lethal it is?
Dr. Wessam Atif breaks down what we do and don't know about the worldwide death rate, or case fatality rate, ...
‘A misunderstanding’: WHO backtracks on claim that asymptomatic transmission of the coronavirus is ‘very rare’
The World Health Organization held a press conference on Tuesday [June 9] to clarify a surprising announcement it made a ...
Some COVID-19 survivors may never regain taste or smell, doctors say
Clinicians racing to understand the novel disease are starting to discern an unusual trend: one common symptom—the loss of smell ...
The problem with winter: Indoor heating creates an easy pathway for coronavirus to spread
It is obvious that in winter, indoor heating causes a difference between indoor and outdoor temperature. But what we are ...
‘It’s been so chaotic’: US government ‘Operation Warp Speed’ may not be focusing on developing the most promising COVID-19 vaccines
When the news broke [June 3] that Operation Warp Speed had selected five experimental COVID-19 vaccines to fast-track through testing ...
COVID-19 vaccines unlikely to be ‘cure-alls’. That might not be such a bad thing
With a little luck and a lot of science, the world might in the not-too-distant future get vaccines against Covid-19 ...
Coronavirus antibodies from GMO cows set for summer clinical trials
The latest recruits in the fight against COVID-19 are munching hay in a South Dakota barn. A biotech company has ...
How a rare bird and the coronavirus remind us that our safety depends on science—not wishful thinking
There are worse places to spend a COVID-19 lockdown than next to a sanctuary with one of the world’s rarest ...
‘Partnership with sunlight’: Why staying inside all the time makes us vulnerable to infections
For the past two months, a sizable chunk of the world’s population has been shuttered inside their homes, only stepping ...
Could COVID-19 cause wives to cheat? How pandemics affect sexual desire
The coronavirus has impacted society and affected our behaviour in many ways from an increase in our use of social ...
‘A new way of life’: UK launches COVID-19 contact tracing system with voluntary self-isolation
A test-and-trace system to find and isolate people who come into contact with coronavirus will be launched in the U.K ...
Intriguing links between blood types and COVID-19 outcomes
Why do some people infected with the coronavirus suffer only mild symptoms, while others become deathly ill? Geneticists have been ...
‘Valuable feedback’: Coronavirus conspiracy theories and rumors illustrate ‘legitimate anxieties’
The tactic of simply throwing facts at the misinformation problem can be ineffective, and even counterproductive ...
First gene-edited CRISPR COVID-19 mouse created; Opens door to study infections and develop therapies
Human cells and mice cells each express their own version of angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), the membrane-bound receptor that ...
On second thought: Sweden’s top epidemiologist says nation should have done more to slow COVID-19
For months, the world has watched Sweden's light-touch approach to fighting the coronavirus pandemic, wondering whether it was genius or ...
Lancet medical journal retracts much-questioned COVID-19 ‘observational study’ that raised safety alarms about hydroxychloroquine
The Lancet, one of the world’s top medical journals, on [June 4] retracted an influential study that raised alarms about ...
Video: Why we should ignore most reported COVID-19 statistics
Every day we wake up and check COVID-19 updates. Governments usually announce 6 main numbers: 1) New cases 2) Total ...
Sewage monitoring could give early warning of fresh coronavirus outbreaks
Scientists in Spain are expecting to begin regularly analyzing sewage for traces of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, The Scientist ...
Herd immunity alone isn’t enough to save us. Why a vaccine is critical
[G]etting to herd immunity without a vaccine isn’t as simple as the idea itself. A number of variables can affect ...
