By Mary Beth Pfeiffer Twenty-seven-year-old Ankit Dubey was sick and terrified. He could hear sirens blaring across Lucknow, his home in northern India. He had been warned away from hospitals. People in his middle-class neighborhood were dying. This second COVID wave...
This Is the Moment the Anti-Vaccine Movement Has Been Waiting For
By Tara Haelle As the coronavirus began pushing the nation into lockdown in March 2020, Joshua Coleman, an anti-vaccine campaigner who organizes anti-vaccine rallies, went on Facebook Live to give his followers a rallying speech. He laid out what he thought the...
US dropped from EU’s coronavirus safe travel list
Unvaccinated US travelers could once again face restrictions on nonessential trips to Europe. BY HANNE COKELAERE The EU on Monday removed the U.S. from its approved coronavirus travel list following a review of restrictions. The move means unvaccinated U.S....
Will the ‘AY3’ Variant Spell More Trouble in Israel?
A new and possibly more transmissible and deadly SARS-CoV-2 Delta associated variant of concern surfaced in Israel, raising concerns for the vaccination program among other issues. Based on the Delta variant, the AY3 strain results from ongoing mutations in this...
3rd conservative radio host who condemned vaccines dies of Covid
Marc Bernier was a mainstay on talk radio in Daytona. At what point, if ever, will the ongoing toll of Covid Delta cause a deep shift in conservative anti-vaccine and anti-masking views? We know that the numbers of people getting the vaccines are increasing...
When the New Covid Surge Struck, Mississippi Was Uniquely Unprepared
Poverty and politics have left the state with fewer doctors and nurses than it needs and hospitals on the brink of shutdown. By Richard Fausset On the ground floor of a parking garage at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, there are coronavirus patients...
Pediatric Physicians Group Sends Strong Message: Don’t Vaccinate Children Under 12 Off-Label
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recently came out with a message cautioning the American public not to inoculate children 16 and under off-label even though the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was formally approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)....
Covid cases in England are 26 times higher than a year ago
Pressure grows to begin booster jabs for the vulnerable and extend vaccinations to younger teenagers By Robin McKie Coronavirus infections in England are now 26 times the levels that were experienced this time last year, according to the Office for National...
Unvaccinated teacher infected half her students with Covid, CDC finds
Teacher read to class without a mask despite Covid symptomsTeacher infected 26 people at California elementary school By Jessica Glenza An unvaccinated teacher in a California elementary school infected half her students and 26 people in total when she...
Britons, Unfazed by High Covid Rates, Weigh Their ‘Price of Freedom’
Britain is reporting more than 30,000 new coronavirus cases a day, but the public seems to have moved on. Experts say this could be a glimpse into the future for other countries. By Mark Landler and Stephen Castle Nearly 60,000 soccer fans packed London’s Emirates...
Had Covid? You May Be More Delta-Proof Than If You’d Had Pfizer’s Jab
The largest real-world analysis of "natural" immunity shows a previous covid infection may protect more against the delta strain than the two-dose Pfizer vaccine. Separately, data show blood clot risks from covid outweigh clotting risks from vaccines. Bloomberg:...
Unethical? Unnecessary? The COVID-19 vaccine booster debate intensifies
By Gretchen Vogel As the extraordinarily infectious Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 continues to spread around the world, vaccines’ powers are showing their limits. Although they are still extremely effective at preventing severe COVID-19, the tantalizing hope that the...
Covid-19 origins still murky after Biden administration’s 90-day investigation
Biden said the efforts to determine the root cause of the pandemic “will not rest.” By Myah Ward The Biden administration’s 90-day investigation into the origins of Covid-19 was inconclusive, according to an unclassified report released from the intelligence community...
We Can All Benefit From Helping Patients Understand Breakthrough COVID
— Here's how to approach the conversation by Gary C. Steven, MD, PhD The recent change in masking guidance from the CDC and reinstated public health measures from local and state governments have been met with frustration and defiance, with people understandably...
How ‘America’s Frontline Doctors’ Sold Access to Bogus COVID-19 Treatments—and Left Patients in the Lurch
BY VERA BERGENGRUEN AUGUST 26, 2021 6:34 PM EDT Mike says he was struggling with COVID-19 when he felt his breathing getting worse. He did not want to go to the Veterans Affairs hospital near his home, where he believed doctors might put him on a...