Coronavirus
Tuberculosis vaccine gets a shot at the coronavirus
One of the oldest vaccines could protect us against our newest infectious disease, COVID-19. The vaccine has been given to ...
Infographic: Why are women less likely to die from coronavirus?
Gender-specific observations and implications for COVID-19 paired with global reported cases indicate men are 50% to 80% more likely to ...
Stanford’s John Ioannidis refines study suggesting coronavirus global lockdown “may be totally irrational,” acknowledging “more uncertainties”
John Ioannidis answers Undark’s questions on his controversial antibody study and participation in partisan media ...
Is IVF an essential medical procedure during a pandemic?
The pandemic confronts patients and health-care providers with new ethical dilemmas. Is it too risky to pursue a fertility procedure ...
What the porn industry can teach us about how to live safely with coronavirus
Since the late 1990s, when an outbreak of HIV infections threatened to shutter the multibillion-dollar industry, the mainstream porn community ...
‘High-stakes information battle’ brewing over which coronavirus experts to trust
Determining who is an authoritative figure worth amplifying is more challenging than ever. Curated, personalized feeds enable bespoke realities. Trump ...
Anti-vaccine online movement targeting undecided groups in social media, spreading disinformation about safety and coronavirus containment efforts, study warns
As scientists work to create a vaccine against COVID-19, a small but fervent anti-vaccination movement is marshalling against it. Campaigners ...
‘Operation warp speed’ hopes to turbocharge US quest for a coronavirus vaccine
Conventional wisdom is that a vaccine for COVID-19 is at least 1 year away, but the organizers of a U.S ...
Podcast: COVID-19 a global communist plot? Glyphosate didn’t cause the pandemic. Time to embrace agricultural biotechnology.
While public health officials and policymakers struggle to contain the novel SARS-COV-2 coronavirus, anti-vaccine activists claim the pandemic was orchestrated ...
Unanswered COVID-19 questions multiply: Why some people get really sick and others not? Does social distancing really matter? Are models right?
In a pandemic characterized by extreme uncertainty, one of the few things experts know for sure is the identity of ...
How Sweden avoided a lockdown and a large coronavirus outbreak
Trust is high in Sweden — in government, institutions and fellow Swedes. When the government defied conventional wisdom and refused ...
Infographic: Widespread use of coronavirus antibody tests will still leave many questions
Dozens of antibody tests for the novel coronavirus have become available in recent weeks. And early results from studies of ...
Abbott expects to ship 90 million coronavirus antibody tests over next two months after FDA grants emergency approval
The Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization for Abbott Laboratories’ new coronavirus test that detects Covid-19 antibodies.... Abbott ...
Viewpoint: Anti-vaxxers are expected to fight a coronavirus vaccine. Here’s one way to deal with them
[T]he race for a [coronavirus] vaccine and the techniques being used to manufacture it are bound to activate some familiar ...
Viewpoint: Here’s what a win against the coronavirus looks like. It’s not pretty
If you’ve been marking the pandemic by the pileup of cautious reopenings and rescheduled events, you might think that an ...
First we need a coronavirus vaccine—Then figure out how to produce 300 million doses
In the midst of national shortages of testing swabs and protective gear, some medical suppliers and health policy experts are ...
Viewpoint: ‘We can’t afford miscommunication or bureaucratic foot-dragging’ in the quest for a coronavirus vaccine
A draft government report forecasts the possibility of about 200,000 new cases of COVID-19 each day by the end of ...
‘Female genetic superiority’? How two X chromosomes give women an edge against coronavirus
It was noticeable from the initial outbreak in Wuhan that Covid-19 was killing more men than women. By February, data ...
Tracking down the missing link in the coronavirus transmission chain
It was a matter of "when not if" an animal passed the coronavirus from wild bats to humans, scientists say ...
Searching for a biomarker to predict which coronavirus patients are at risk for severe symptoms
Respiratory physician Dr. David Darley says something peculiar happens to a small group of Covid-19 patients on day seven of ...
Are we facing a ‘more transmissible’ coronavirus strain? Not so fast, researchers say
As if the pandemic weren’t bad enough, on April 30, a team led by scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory ...
Podcast: We need a vaccine ‘Manhattan Project’ to defeat COVID-19
The only way to truly end the novel coronavirus pandemic is to develop an effective vaccine. And while there are ...
Twins study bolsters theory that genetics play a role in coronavirus symptom severity
Symptoms of Covid-19 appear to be partly down to genetic makeup, researchers at King’s College London have discovered. The finding ...
Viewpoint: Taking vitamin D is the ‘least crackpot’ of the coronavirus nutrition ideas
For the most part, supplements are a waste of money at best and harmful at worst. But could vitamin D ...
If coronavirus vaccines don’t work, what’s plan B?
As countries lie frozen in lockdown and billions of people lose their livelihoods, public figures are teasing a breakthrough that ...
Is climate change dampening our ability to fight the coronavirus and other diseases?
Scientists have long known that the rise in average global temperatures is expanding the geographical presence of vector-borne diseases such ...
‘Fragments of dead virus’ preventing recovered coronavirus patients from donating plasma
Close to four weeks after recovering from a Covid-19 infection, Jennie Novakovic went to her local hospital hoping to donate ...
