At a meeting to simplify the nation’s covid vaccination policy, the FDA’s panel of experts could agree on only one thing: Information is woefully...
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How Pfizer Won the Pandemic, Reaping Outsize Profit and Influence
The grinding two-plus years of the pandemic have yielded outsize benefits for one company — Pfizer — making it both highly influential and hugely...
California Schools Try to Outrace Covid Outbreaks
A fourth-grade camping trip led to one outbreak, a high school prom to another. But even with covid cases rising as schools head into...
‘That’s Just Part of Aging’: Long Covid Symptoms Are Often Overlooked in Seniors
Nearly 18 months after getting covid-19 and spending weeks in the hospital, Terry Bell struggles with...
Why Won’t More Older Americans Get Their Covid Booster?
Even as top U.S. health officials say it’s time America learns to live with the coronavirus, a chorus of leading researchers say faulty...
Travel Nurses See Swift Change of Fortunes as Covid Money Runs Dry
Tiffanie Jones was a few tanks of gas into her drive from Tampa, Florida, to Cheyenne, Wyoming, when she found out her travel nurse contract had...
A Guide to Help You Keep Up With the Omicron Subvariants
Two years into the coronavirus pandemic, Americans can be forgiven if they’ve lost track of the latest variants circulating nationally and around...
Why Cheap, Older Drugs That Might Treat Covid Never Get Out of the Lab
In March 2020, Dr. Joseph Vinetz left the contemplative world of his Yale University infectious-disease laboratory and plunged into the covid ward...
Analysis: Don’t Want a Vaccine? Be Prepared to Pay More for Insurance.
America’s covid-19 vaccination rate is around 60% for ages 12 and up. That’s not enough to reach so-called herd immunity, and in states...
Unraveling the Mysterious Mutations That Make Delta the Most Transmissible Covid Virus Yet
Upon first inspection, the mutations in the highly contagious delta covid variant don’t look that worrisome. For starters, delta has fewer genetic...
Fact Check: Did the WHO Reverse Its Position on Kids and Covid Vaccines?
“The WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION recently reversed its stance on children getting the Covid vaccine.” Instagram post, June 22, 2021 A social media...
The Gender Vaccine Gap: More Women Than Men Are Getting Covid Shots
Mary Ann Steiner drove 2½ hours from her home in the St. Louis suburb of University City to the tiny Ozark town of Centerville, Missouri, to get...
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