Regional success and setbacks in the battle against a pandemic
As coronavirus cases spike in the South, Northeast seems to have the pandemic under control - here's what changed
Taison Bell, University of Virginia
“Hospital Capacity...
US is split between the vaccinated and unvaccinated
Deaths and hospitalizations reflect the divide in the US between the vaccinated and unvaccinated.
Rodney E. Rohde, Texas State University and Ryan McNamara, University of...
A pediatrician explains a spike in ear infections after Covid restrictions...
Abigail Kumral, University of Virginia
As a pediatrician, I see children in my clinic daily for ear infections. Because these are associated with viral upper...
mRNA Vaccines May Pack More Persistent Punch Against COVID-19 Than Thought
Dr. Francis Collins - National Institutes of Health
Many people, including me, have experienced a sense of gratitude and relief after receiving the new COVID-19...
Calling COVID-19 a ‘Chinese virus’ is wrong and dangerous
The COVID-19 pandemic has spread to almost every country on Earth. And yet, several American officials refer to it as the “Wuhan virus” or...
How effective are vaccines against omicron?
An epidemiologist answers 6 questions about vaccine effectiveness against Omicron
Melissa Hawkins, American University
The pandemic has brought many tricky terms and ideas from epidemiology into everyone’s...
A healthy diet and exercise are not a substitute for vaccination
Can healthy people who eat right and exercise skip the COVID-19 vaccine? A research scientist and fitness enthusiast explains why the answer is no
Richard Bloomer,...
COVID-19 and the cytokine storm
Blocking the deadly cytokine storm is a vital weapon for treating COVID-19
Alexander (Sasha) Poltorak, Tufts University
The killer is not the virus but the immune...
Tracking Covid’s variants and spread with genomic surveillance
Genomic surveillance: What it is and why we need more of it to track coronavirus variants and help end the COVID-19 pandemic
Alexander Sundermann, University...
COVID-19 rapid tests can breed confusion
COVID-19 rapid tests can breed confusion – here’s how to make sense of the results and what to do, according to 3 testing experts
Nathaniel Hafer,...
