Outbreak
Viewpoint: 25 vs 0.4 COVID deaths per 100,000 people — Trump supporters suffer higher mortality vs rest of America as anti-vaccine movement shifts from left to right
Anti-vaccine activism never had a political affiliation: the left is concerned with avoiding anything chemical, & the right opposes mandates ...
Viewpoint: US childhood vaccination rates are at a 10-year low. Here’s how fringe science views are seeping into the mainstream
Rates of routine childhood vaccination hit a 10-year low in 2023. That, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ...
Sex and disease: Gene identified that protects men from death when hospitalized with COVID
A new study has identified a gene variant that protects men from from severe illness and death when COVID-19 lands ...
‘This should be setting off alarms’: Nearly 18 million Americans could be living with long COVID. What are the implications?
CDC data shows nearly 18m people could be living with long Covid even as health agency relaxes isolation recommendations ...
Long COVID survivors may experience brain fog and other symptoms but study suggests no lasting reduction in problem solving or other functions
Participants in a recent study struggled with concentration and sleep, including individuals who had not had Covid-19 and some who ...
Yet another anti-vax doctor claims vaccines ‘shed’. Where did this myth originate?
It’s been too short a time since I last wrote about the antivaccine myth of “shedding,” particularly in the context of ...
Do COVID victims suffer permanent memory loss? Conclusion of a 100,000-patient study is under scrutiny
In a recent study, researchers conclude that those who tested positive for Covid-19 reported worse memory than those who tested ...
Rebelled against COVID restrictions? You might also believe in conspiracy theories
A series of three studies revealed that individuals with pronounced psychological entitlement were more likely to have visited non-essential venues ...
Are ‘superdodgers’ real? Is COVID seasonal? We’re finally making progress on understanding 7 of the biggest COVID mysteries
When the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a global pandemic in March 2020, nearly everything about the novel coronavirus was ...
Are Chinese scientists going rogue on latest COVID research? Experimental strain found 100% lethal in ‘humanized’ mice
Chinese scientists created a mutant COVID-19 strain, GX_P2V, with a 100% lethality rate in "humanized" mice ...
Video: 10 of the most prominent anti-vaccine celebrities, from Jim Carrey to Jenny McCarthy
Why do many celebrities reject science? Watch the video below to find out which Hollywood stars are anti-vaccine. 1. Jenna ...
Viewpoint: COVID vaccine rights waiver would allow developing countries access to formulas and manufacturing details, jeopardizing America’s biotech race with China
With support from the U.S, the World Trade Organization in 2022 waived global intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines — ...
The serotonin effect: Here’s an intriguing explanation for the mystery of long COVID
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania suggest that serotonin reduction is triggered by remnants of the virus lingering in the ...
Reduction of COVID-19 deaths? Masks, lockdowns and social distancing may play a part but the only thing we know for sure is that vaccines worked
After vaccines became available, there were clear differences, with red states having higher death rates, almost certainly as a result ...
‘Democrats are trying to restart COVID hysteria’: Ideological clashes escalate with arrival of new booster shots
The Food and Drug Administration’s approval of updated booster shots to combat the recent uptick in COVID-19 infections can only ...
For 6 percent of COVID victims, long COVID might be here for an indefinite stay
Covid-19 is now endemic, meaning the coronavirus is here to stay and health officials must pivot from treating it like a one-time emergency ...
Latest conspiracy theory claims that COVID is ‘bacterial pneumonia’: Here’s how this antivax delusion gained a foothold
To antivaccine conspiracy theorists, it is always of the utmost importance to find a way to explain deaths from the ...
What do ‘non-identical’ identical twins have to do with COVID-19? Mutations!
Identical twins Stella and Desiree Vignes were born in 1938 in a Louisiana town so small that it wasn’t on ...
Did COVID vaccine mandates reduce infection rates among college students?
New research from The Ohio State University College of Medicine finds COVID-19 vaccine mandates are highly effective at reducing the ...
‘You feel like you’re out in the wilderness’: Here are the leading theories for why long COVID is so disabling
For people suffering from long COVID's often disabling symptoms, including intense fatigue, breathing troubles, cognitive issues and heart palpitations, the ...
Long COVID cure? Can this debilitating illness be treated in just 3 days? A Norwegian study concludes ‘yes’
This treatment program is to be conducted in Øystese along Norway’s Hardangerfjord and has shown promising results for people with ...
Viewpoint: Are anti-vax COVID physicians being ‘persecuted’ by medical regulatory boards?
Two COVID-19 antivax quacks, Drs. Paul Marik and Pierre Kory, announced that the ABIM had informed them that their board ...
Viewpoint: In COVID early days, Chinese doctors in Wuhan denied widespread viral spread. That was a lie
In the first weeks of 2020, a radiologist at Xinhua Hospital in Wuhan, China, saw looming signs of trouble. He ...
BA.2.86: Current vaccines do not offer protection against new globally-spreading COVID variant
A highly mutated form of the coronavirus that threatens to be the most adept yet at slipping past the body’s ...
Viewpoint: ‘My body went haywire’ — One woman’s debilitating experience with long COVID
Despite the crystal-clear science on the damage covid-19 does to our bodies, medical settings have dropped mask requirements, so patients ...
‘Blue leg syndrome’: Yet another long COVID health problem
'Blue Legs' yet another long COVID: isolated case report that illustrates that POTS is part of the milieu of post-COVID ...
‘It ages the brain by a decade’: Long COVID symptoms including extreme fatigue and brain fog take severe health toll
Scientists tested the cognitive function of more than 3,000 participants and found those with longer-lasting Covid symptoms had the strongest ...
