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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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)....
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
— 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...
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...