COVID-19
Infographic: How COVID-19 invades the body, step by step
The newest coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has created a far deadlier pandemic in part because once it infects a person it can ...
How does herd immunity work – and could it protect us from COVID-19?
Herd immunity is when a virus can no longer spread easily because enough people are immune to it. That lowers ...
How will fall sports fare during the pandemic? Few remember the 1968 Hong Kong flu roiled football and basketball
A virus scything through locker rooms all over the East Coast, infecting the NBA’s most respected player, forcing one college ...
COVID-19 is deadlier than the flu
Texas is just one of the states that has experienced a surge in coronavirus cases over recent weeks after relaxing ...
Why this COVID-19 spike is different: Current U.S. mutated version much more infectious than first wave virus but no more deadly
[A new COVID-19] mutation makes the virus more likely to infect people but does not seem to make them any ...
Flu vaccine makers plan to increase production as they brace for unprecedented winter season
Even though flu season doesn’t begin until the fall, major flu vaccine manufacturers say they plan to boost production by ...
First COVID-19 vaccines on track to arrive late 2020, faster than thought possible
Three companies with funding from the US government—AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, and Moderna—are on track to distribute the first commercial ...
Video: Is there an upside to soaring COVID-19 cases?
Most countries and models that have attempted to control COVID-19 situation have had one ultimate goal; trying to bring the ...
Even with a vaccine, COVID-19 might be here to stay. Here’s what that means for society
It is a daunting proposition — a coronavirus-tinged world without a foreseeable end. But experts in epidemiology, disaster planning and ...
Disturbing hallucinations and psychosis mysteriously plague some coronavirus patients
Nightmarish visions... plagued [Kim] Victory during her hospitalization this spring for severe respiratory failure caused by the coronavirus. They made ...
Asymptomatic COVID-19 infections can still cause lung damage
Modern medicine rightly emphasises the importance of science. The focus, however, too often displaces our attention from the real point ...
The Three Stooges illustrate why coronavirus-fighting ‘antibody cocktails’ could help contain the virus well before a vaccine
“You imbecile!” bellowed Moe Howard as he stuck a finger up the nose of Curly. Moe the bully would often ...
From lung scarring to heart damage, COVID-19 affects the body long after the virus is gone
Because Covid-19 is a new disease, there are no studies about its long-term trajectory for those with more severe symptoms; ...
FDA won’t approve a coronavirus vaccine unless there is ‘clearly demonstrated proof’ it’s effective
[A coronavirus vaccine must] be at least 50% more effective than a placebo in preventing the disease [to be FDA ...
Viewpoint: Reporting COVID-19 data is not ‘rocket science’ – yet US response has been a spectacular failure
Tragically, the United States, unable to match other countries’ response, has tallied the most cases and deaths in the world ...
Infographic: How COVID-19 mutated to infect the world
A change in the virus was appearing again and again. This mutation, associated with outbreaks in Europe and New York, ...
Quest for a coronavirus vaccine ‘reinvigorating’ anti-vax conspiracy theories
There is no COVID-19 vaccine, but there are already COVID-19 vaccine conspiracies. Even as vaccines for the disease caused by ...
Another pandemic? New swine flu identified in China could jump to humans
[A] new finding that pigs in China are more and more frequently becoming infected with a strain of influenza that ...
Will herd immunity curb COVID-19? Not with rampant spread of ‘anti-science, anti-authority, anti-vaccine’ views
With government support, three coronavirus vaccines are expected to be studied in large-scale clinical trials in the next three months ...
Viewpoint: Human challenge trials – volunteers intentionally infected with COVID-19 – are ‘uninformative, unnecessary and unethical’
Deliberately infecting volunteers with SARS-CoV-2 to test the efficacy of vaccine candidates is unnecessary, uninformative, and unethical. … [O]ne prominent ...
Sports leagues set to resume without knowing COVID-19’s erratic path, randomness and chronic effects
Professional athletes don’t have the luxury of waiting for the outcomes of longitudinal studies of coronavirus patients. Sports are trying ...
Viewpoint: Just one COVID-19 vaccine is not enough to win the war. We need an army
Scientists have created more than 70 vaccine candidates so far. “If we end up with two, three, or four vaccines, ...
How COVID-19 works to destroy our sense of smell
[A]nosmia [loss of sense of smell] seen with COVID-19 is present in 30–98 percent of infected people seen in hospitals, ...
How widespread is the pandemic? Proposed global blood bank could provide missing answers
Michael Mina is out for blood—millions of samples, which a nascent effort dubbed the Global Immunological Observatory (GIO), would monitor ...
COVID-19 infection undercount: CDC says actual victims likely closer to 20 million Americans and many more deaths
[A new] estimate [suggests that 20 million Americans have been infected with COVID-19,] roughly 10 times as many infections as ...
We’ve successfully flattened the curve. Now get ready for an ‘agonizing’ COVID-19 plateau
As the summer gets into full swing and much of the country lifts its restrictions on distancing… it’s important to ...
Teaching AI to diagnose COVID-19 by analyzing CT scans
In China, CT scans are already used as a COVID-19 diagnostic tool when a patient arrives at a healthcare setting ...