With infections increasing once more, and hospitalization rising among older adults, health experts offer a timely warning: a coronavirus infection can look different in older patients. By Paula Span One day in March of 2020, Rosemary Bily suddenly grew so tired she...
Lingering physical, mental and neurological symptoms are affecting children as well as adults, including many who had mild reactions to the initial coronavirus infection. By Pam Belluck Will Grogan stared blankly at his ninth-grade biology classwork. It was material...
The annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally began on Friday, just as the infectious Delta variant is producing a surge in cases nationwide. By Mark Walker Although most large events shut down last summer because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally...
By John Mauldin ~ Thoughts from the Frontline If you look just at 2021, it seems the US economy is tearing higher. Real GDP grew an annualized +6.5% in the second quarter, the Commerce Department estimated last week. This follows a similar +6.3% first quarter, and a...
By Yasmin Tayag The US is stumbling in the dark when it comes to breakthrough cases. Why? Breakthrough cases – infections among vaccinated people – are happening. These are normal and expected because the vaccines, though all powerfully protective against Covid-19,...
By Ryan Heath MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR— When the U.K. ended one of the world’s strictest Covid lockdowns on July 19 — 28 weeks long and the country’s third since the pandemic began — critics fearedthat Covid cases would double from around 50,000 per day to 100,000 per...
By Matt Stoller The Shadow Public Health System Public health agencies globally are wrestling with the contagious Delta variant of Covid, which is far more easily transmissible than earlier types of the disease. Different countries are attempting different strategies...
By Malcolm Scott Delta Damage The delta variant is challenging the part of the world that’s been most successful in blunting the economic impact of Covid-19. Just 12 months ago, the Asia-Pacific region’s rapid containment of Covid-19 made them the envy of the world as...
By Bryce Covert On a July day in downtown Lowell, Mass., the first sunny Saturday of the month, people began to line up for a block party. Food trucks offered everyone a free empanada or egg roll. A D.J. played music. There were kid-friendly activities, too, like a...
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show' A leading epidemiologist answers my biggest questions about the latest Covid-19 threat. Transcript: Ezra Klein Interviews Céline Gounder “The war has changed.” That’s what the leaked C.D.C. document says about the way the Delta...
Worried about a vulnerable population as the Delta variant surges, administration officials are taking a new tack. By Apoorva Mandavilli The Food and Drug Administration is speeding efforts to authorize extra doses of the coronavirus vaccines for Americans with...
— "If you have had COVID-19 before, please still get vaccinated," says CDC Director by Molly Walker Unvaccinated adults who were previously infected with COVID-19 were twice as likely to be reinfected as those previously infected but also fully vaccinated, researchers...
— Provincetown statistic being misinterpreted by Kristina Fiore Misinformation and misunderstanding about vaccine efficacy have abounded recently, potentially sparked by what seemed to be worrying data out of Provincetown, Massachusetts, reported last week by the CDC....
According to The Daily Expose, a “Shocking 86% of Children suffered an Adverse Reaction to the Pfizer Covid Vaccine in Clinical Trial.” Some consider this particular outlet to be fringe, so we can compare their version of the facts with the June FDA EUA Fact...
Berkeley Lovelace Jr. KEY POINTS Moderna said its Covid-19 vaccine booster shot produced a “robust” antibody response against the highly contagious delta variant.In a phase two trial, Moderna is testing a 50-microgram dose of three vaccine booster candidates in...