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Debunking 7 myths about the COVID vaccine
[W]idespread immunization is the fastest and best way to begin to return to a more normal way of life. Seven ...
Mass vaccination campaigns are always challenging. Here’s how the US fared with a previous outbreak
On April 12, 1955, the U.S. government licensed the first vaccine against poliomyelitis, created by Dr. Jonas Salk, after scientists ...
Sickle cell gene therapy trial halted after two patients develop cancer, though the link is not certain
A patient who was treated [with gene therapy for sickle cell disease] five and a half years ago has developed ...
Long COVID: Some people may never fully recover
They hadn’t been hospitalized. They were relatively young and otherwise in good health, without the underlying conditions like obesity and ...
COVID might be amplifying teenage suicide rates. Here’s how to help
Even during normal times, many mental health problems tend to emerge in adolescence, and young people in this group are ...
Antibody treatments: Vaccines are in demand while other effective drugs go unused. Here’s why
Hospitals and clinics, staggered by the needs of the sick and gearing up to help administer the new coronavirus vaccines, ...
‘Cancer is a life sentence. But Covid is a death sentence’: Patients with compromised immune systems unable to access vaccines
Facing conflicting guidance and logistical chaos, many cancer patients are struggling to navigate the bumpy rollout of the Covid-19 vaccination ...
AI writing test accurately predicts Alzhiemer’s years before symptoms appear
People with a wide variety of neurological illnesses have distinctive language patterns that, investigators suspect, may serve as early warning ...
UK COVID variant now spreading across the US likely deadlier than original virus
[British scientists recently said] that there was a “realistic possibility” that the variant was not only more contagious than others, ...
Evolution and the pandemic: How COVID could develop resistance to vaccines over time
With the emergence of what seem so far to be safe and effective vaccine candidates, it appears that humanity may be ...
Viewpoint: Why you shouldn’t be worried about potential reactions to COVID vaccines
Anaphylaxis — a potentially life-threatening allergic reaction — is nothing to be ignored. It’s most commonly associated with allergies to ...
Fauci: “This phenomenon is quite real and extensive’. More needs to be done to treat COVID ‘long haulers’
In a two-day meeting [January 14-15], the federal government’s first workshop dedicated to long-term Covid-19, public health officials, medical researchers ...
Pregnant COVID survivors appear to pass protective antibodies on to their babies
[New findings, published January 29 in JAMA Pediatrics, offer] more evidence that Covid-19 antibodies can cross the placenta. “What we ...
When we get COVID-19 under control, here’s what it might turn into
The coronavirus is here to stay, but once most adults are immune — following natural infection or vaccination — the ...
Infographic: ‘You’re not going to wipe this thing out by achieving herd immunity.’ Vaccines alone will not contain COVID-19
The coronavirus pandemic in the United States has raged almost uncontrollably for so long that even if millions of people ...
1918 redux: Phony virus cures proliferate like they did during the Spanish flu pandemic
More than a century [after the Spanish influenza outbreak of 1918], not much has changed. Ads promoting unproven miracle cures — including ...
HIV patients can now get monthly, FDA-approved injections, replacing multiple daily treatments
The Food and Drug Administration on [January 21] approved a combination of two monthly shots for treatment of H.I.V. in ...
How the ‘Japan model’ – limited testing with robust contact tracing – kept the country from being initially overwhelmed by COVID-19
[At the beginning of the pandemic,] Japan went its own way, limiting tests to only the most severe cases as ...
Book review: Who knew the world of paleoanthropology could be so cutthroat?
[T]he scientists looking for ever older bones of our ancestors always seem to be squabbling. At least that’s their reputation ...
Recovery is elusive for this COVID longhauler
Since getting sick with the coronavirus in March, Mr. Long, 54, has fallen into a distressing new cycle — one ...
Where does my body begin and machine end? How AI is keeping my pancreas, and me, alive
I have Type 1 diabetes, so my pancreas does not produce the life-essential insulin that a normal pancreas secretes. Instead, ...
COVID vaccine benefits appear to outweigh minimal potential dangers for pregnant and breastfeeding women
[T]he American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the S.M.F.M. and other organizations have been calling on the F.D.A. to allow pregnant and lactating ...
How the Chinese government suppressed the real story of the country’s coronavirus catastrophe
The news was spreading quickly that Li Wenliang, a doctor who had warned about a strange new viral outbreak only to be ...
‘The Pattern Seekers’: What autism can tell us about the evolutionary tipping point that made us human
[In “The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention,” psychologist Simon] Baron-Cohen argues that humans split off from all other ...
’25 days in China that changed the world’: How the country’s COVID bungling helped accelerate a global disaster
[The January 23 Wuhan] lockdown was the first decisive step in saving China. But in a pandemic that has since ...
Africa has largely avoided the COVID scourge to date. Here’s why that may change
In South Africa, a crush of new cases that spread from Port Elizabeth is growing exponentially across the nation, with ...
Which provides longer-lasting immunity: Getting COVID or a vaccine?
Which produces a stronger immune response: a natural infection or a vaccine? The short answer: We don’t know. But Covid-19 ...
