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Best in the world — 90% of Israelis over 50 are fully vaccinated against COVID. How did Israel do it?
A rush of Israeli medical research — some emerging too fast for academic journals to keep up — reveals that ...
COVID shots and “The Mark of the Beast’? Battling religious vaccine misinformation
The Book of Revelation describes the End Time as a bloody battle filled with persecution, during which a beast forces ...
Infographic: History’s 11 deadliest plagues, from the Antonine epidemic in ancient Rome to COVID-19
The novel coronavirus took just a few months to sweep the globe. More than 2.5 million people around the world ...
First lab-grown steak is here. Will lack of regulation stymie its race to the market?
Frequently plant-based products have been patties or processed nuggets — “everyday” foods easier for companies to produce — that aim ...
Worse than COVID-19? Why the next virus might be a lot more dangerous
Since the first reports of the coronavirus began circulating nearly a year ago, the WHO has repeatedly warned that the ...
Monoclonal antibodies can keep the COVID infected out of the hospital. Why are hospitals not using them?
Monoclonal antibodies — described as “unbelievable” by President Trump, who received the treatment this fall — are designed for patients newly diagnosed with ...
‘The Pattern Seekers’: How has autism driven human evolution?
Unfortunately, “The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention” by Cambridge University professor Simon Baron-Cohen never really lives up to ...
India may hold the key for manufacturing COVID-19 vaccines for the developing world
Ask [billionaire Adar Poonawalla] about the race for a coronavirus vaccine and he will offer some unvarnished opinions. One prominent ...
Moderna tweaking COVID vaccine to target evasive new variants
[A] highly transmissible variant first detected in people who had recently traveled to Brazil was discovered in Minnesota. Moderna, the ...
Type 1 diabetes is caused by eating too much sugar, and four other myths about the disease
According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, 34.2 million Americans had diabetes in 2018. Of those, only 1.6 ...
Nearly 60% of COVID-19 cases spread by asymptomatic carriers, CDC finds
Regardless of whether you feel ill, wear a mask, wash your hands, stay socially distant and get a coronavirus test ...
COVID-19 linked to early Alzheimer’s and other forms of cognitive decline
Decades of evidence from other respiratory viruses, along with observations of patients in recent months, suggests such infections may increase ...
Colonizing Mars? Here’s the technology we need to make that happen
Though it is the most livable non-Earth planet within our grasp, Mars is brutally hostile to life: It is as cold as Antarctica, ...
Viewpoint: The COVID vaccine rollout isn’t going well in the US. Here’s what we need to change
[F]ew Americans can answer the basic question: When and where can I get vaccinated? The country needs a distribution strategy ...
$850,000 in Trump Administration PPP loans went to anti-vaccine activist groups
Five prominent anti-vaccine organizations that have been known to spread misleading information about the coronavirus received more than $850,000 in loans from ...
Video: Infrared camera shows how COVID spreads through a room
More than 288,000 Americans have been killed by a virus that public health officials now say can be spread through ...
Should schools reopen for in-class study? Evidence suggests they are not major COVID spreaders
Emerging data on contact tracing — which illuminates the origins of infections — shows that the virus does not seem ...
Early COVID vaccine recipients are reporting numerous side-effects. Believe it or not, that’s great news. Here’s why
Two criteria for a good vaccine are “effective” and “safe.” The coronavirus vaccine technically named BNT162b2 and developed by industry ...
Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine appears to protect against South African, UK COVID variants
[A new] study showed the immunity conferred by the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine could block a version of the virus that contained one key ...
Viewpoint: Fears grow that Trump’s anti-science extremism could fuel rise in creationism
Loss and humiliation do not make bad ideas go away. Rather, they can take on wilder and more outrageous forms ...
Fact check: 8 common COVID misconceptions
To help you out, we rounded up eight facts about the coronavirus to keep in mind if you see claims to ...
Viewpoint: Halo Band not ready for primetime – Amazon’s invasive wearable health tracker gets a poor review
You haven’t exercised or slept enough, reports Amazon’s $65 Halo Band. Your body has too much fat, the Halo’s app shows ...
COVID-19 vaccine state-by-state availability tracker: When will you be able to get the shot?
The Post is tracking how many doses are expected to be delivered in the first set of Pfizer’s newly authorized ...
COVID tests often yield false results, underscoring the limits of testing to control pandemics
National coronavirus test shortages have emphasized testing’s critical role in containing and mitigating the pandemic, but these inconvenient truths remain: ...
How most of Europe has kept schools open safely during the current COVID surge
Most of Europe kept schools open even during a worst-on-the-planet second wave of infections this fall. And still, schools appear to ...
Science has limits: Unraveling the medical mystery of one woman’s pelvic pains
Between 2012 and 2018, she consulted her own doctors and made eight trips to an urgent care center or emergency ...
School children will not get a COVID vaccine in time for the next school year, experts believe
Children’s immune responses are different from that of adults, so there is a consensus that pediatric [COVID vaccine] trials are ...
