Betsy McKay
Bats rarely get viruses or cancer, and live extraordinarily long lives. Can that help guide human care?
While the Covid-19 pandemic exposed health risks from bats, it has also made finding out how they crush viral infections ...
Two more HIV patients beat the virus — helping scientists researching a permanent cure
A 66-year-old man in Southern California and a woman in her 70s in Spain are the latest in a small ...
China regards US search for COVID origins with suspicion — hobbling future pandemic preparedness
One fallout from the conflict over the origin of the pandemic is less scientific collaboration and more mistrust between two ...
Preventing the next pandemic: Inside the quest to find a universal vaccine against all coronaviruses
An emerging-infectious-diseases researcher with the U.S. Army, Dr. [Kayvon] Modjarrad is pursuing a vaccine to protect against a range of ...
WHO assembles new team to investigate origins of COVID in China or elsewhere
The World Health Organization is reviving its stalled investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 virus as agency officials warn ...
Vaccinate the world against COVID? Why the ambitious multi-billion dollar plan to protect the world’s poor failed
The Covax program, conceived in early 2020 as a kind of Operation Warp Speed for the globe, was supposed to ...
‘When, where and how’: WHO report on COVID’s origins leaves many unanswered questions
A World Health Organization-led team investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic said in a report that data examined during ...
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 ...
Can the CDC recover its credibility in the midst of its COVID debacle?
White House advisers have made line-by-line edits to official health guidance, altering language written by CDC scientists on church choirs, ...
The world was making progress against killer flus. Then COVID hit.
The number of people living in extreme poverty globally has risen 7.1% so far this year in the pandemic, according ...
How the World Health Organization fumbled its preparations for a global pandemic
The WHO spent years and hundreds of millions of dollars honing a globe-spanning system of defenses against a pandemic it ...