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World War II mobilization provided groundwork for successful COVID vaccine development through Operation Warp Speed
To date, [Operation Warp Speed] has managed to produce and deliver about 50 million vaccine doses—all made in the U.S.—with ...
Vaccine passports: While US holds back for now, China and Europe embrace ‘digital green pass’
Many international travelers will likely need to prove they are vaccinated or free of Covid-19 if they plan trips later ...
Law firms that led glyphosate-cancer litigation against Bayer want a ‘bigger slice’ of the record-breaking settlement
Plaintiffs’ firms that led the legal campaign against Bayer AG are fighting over $800 million in fees from the Roundup ...
Behind the scenes of America’s troubled COVID vaccine rollout
[W]hy is it taking so long to vaccinate Americans? The answer starts with tens of millions of Covid-19 vaccine doses ...
What CRISPR can do for the world
What might CRISPR do to the diversity of our species? If we are no longer subject to a natural lottery ...
Video: Here’s why COVID mutant variants are spreading so fast
As highly transmissible coronavirus variants sweep across the world, scientists are racing to understand why these new versions of the ...
Lagging global vaccine rollout could open the door to more mutant strains, complicating recovery
The virus continues to spread rapidly in many parts of the world, even as segments of the population have gained ...
Reality dawning: COVID will alter how we live for years or decades to come
The ease with which the coronavirus spreads, the emergence of new strains and poor access to vaccines in large parts ...
Viewpoint: An open economy by April? Why the US could reach COVID herd immunity by spring
[COVID] cases are down 77% over the past six weeks. If a medication slashed cases by 77%, we’d call it ...
WHO COVID investigative team finds evidence suggesting first infections occurred in October 2019 or earlier
China’s disclosures to the WHO raise questions about the possibility that Covid-19—which has now killed more than 2.3 million people—was ...
Deadly coalition: Anti-vaxxers merging with anti-mask advocates
Opponents of vaccine requirements have found common ground during the pandemic with people suspicious of drug companies, business shutdowns and ...
Genetic genealogy leader 23andMe going public. What will that mean for your data?
California-based 23andMe will merge with Virgin Group’s VG Acquisition Corp and raise a further $250 million from new investors, [British ...
Industrial farming: Blessing or curse? Two books offer dueling visions of America’s food system
“Simply put,” [Mark Bittman, in his book “Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, From Sustainable to Suicidal,”] writes, “agriculture ...
‘Exercised’: New book by a biological anthropologist says humans are cut out to nap, not exercise – Here’s how we can overcome our evolutionary destiny
Want to feel bad about skipping a workout? Blame evolution. Daniel E. Lieberman argues this theory in his new book ...
Acting rash or unwise? Don’t blame your ‘lizard brain’, claims ‘Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain’ book
Scientists have long posited that time and evolution stratified the human brain, with the oldest and crudest lizard layer lurking ...
Current vaccines likely work on new South African COVID variant, but effectiveness may be reduced
[A new COVID] variant, which has already shown up in patients in Europe and other African countries, has quickly become the predominant ...
Everything you need to know about COVID-19 antibody testing
Though experts say there is now evidence that the presence of antibodies results in some immunity to the virus that ...
Alzheimer’s hotspot map: Where it’s most prevalent and why that matters
An emerging body of research is identifying counties and neighborhoods with higher prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease, which affects 5.8 million ...
Sweden imposes mandatory COVID restrictions, ending its ‘voluntary’ distancing experiment
Like other Europeans, Swedes are now heading into the winter facing restrictions ranging from a ban on large gatherings to ...
Back of the line? Poorer countries pressing WHO to free COVID-19 vaccines from patent protection
The pandemic requires a temporary suspension of the world’s usual intellectual property system, [a group of developing countries led by ...
‘Zoom boom’: Why is Asia the only part of the world weathering the economic fallout from COVID?
China remains on track to grow nearly 2% this year, the most of any major economy, while the world is expected to ...
Viewpoint: Transgender rights and sports: Should trans women be permitted to compete in female-only sports?
[I]n 1972, Congress enacted Title IX, a law that prohibits sex discrimination by schools that receive federal money. That led ...
Video: Test everyone – Slovakia goes its own way to control COVID
As Europe sees record coronavirus cases and deaths, Slovakia is testing its entire adult population. WSJ's Drew Hinshaw explains how ...
With 75 million people projected to be living with dementia in 19 years, science turns to AI for early diagnoses
[A] study, funded by the [National Institute on Aging] and published this year in the Journal of the American Geriatrics ...
Unraveling COVID’s corrosive persistence: Doctors struggle to understand why initially mild symptoms sometimes leave lingering scars on the mind and body
For many patients, including young ones who never required hospitalization, Covid-19 has a devastating second act. Many are dealing with ...
Brain implants on the cusp of reality help patients immobilized by ALS, strokes or spinal cord injuries
[B]rain activity is collected by sensors implanted in a blood vessel in [Phil] O’Keefe’s brain and relayed to a computer ...
Viewpoint: Are health advocates and politicians overselling the value of masks?
The public assumes that research performed since the beginning of the pandemic supports mask mandates. Policy makers and the media ...
