By Krishna Ramanujan Originally published in Cornell Chronicle on March 28, 2022 A newly discovered small molecule could be sprayed into people’s noses to prevent COVID-19 illness prior to exposure and provide early treatment if administered soon after infection,...
A long history of drug scandals abetted by corrupt doctors who never faced sanctions from their own profession makes clear that physicians cannot self-regulate. By Paul D. Thacker A recent essay in the New England Journal of Medicine helped highlight, underline and...
Researchers still don’t know precisely how many get long Covid, what causes it or how best to treat it By Eric Berger Many long haulers report fatigue, brain fog, and a range of other symptoms for months after their infection. Photograph: VioletaStoimenova/Getty...
By James Krellenstein, Joseph Osmundson and Keletso Makofane Mr. Krellenstein, Dr. Osmundson and Dr. Makofane are public health experts and advocates focused on infectious disease prevention. When Covid-19 cases were exploding across the United...
In a new study of long COVID published March 13, 2022, in the Annals of Neurology, UC San Francisco researchers identified biomarkers present at elevated levels that may persist for many months in the blood of study participants who had long COVID with...
Will the danger mount each time, or will it fade away? By Katherine J. Wu Two and a half years and billions of estimated infections into this pandemic, SARS-CoV-2’s visit has clearly turned into a permanent stay. Experts knew from early on that, for almost...
By Jessica Grose, Opinion Writer Credit...Scott Olson/Getty Images Cameron Kasky had just gotten off the phone with his grandfather when I talked to him on Wednesday, the day after the massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 children and two...
A senior leader announced efforts to bolster growth and urged local leaders do more to keep the economy running. By Paul Mozur and Alexandra Stevenson Since the Omicron variant of the coronavirus arrived in China, the government has maintained harsh lockdowns, mass...
By Farhad Manjoo, Opinion Columnist There are days, now, when you can almost forget about the virus. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world are still being infected with Covid-19 daily — an average of about 361 Americans died from it...
There’s plenty more to learn about the lifesaving antiviral COVID treatment. By Rachel Gutman The first data on Paxlovid, out last November, hinted that the COVID antiviral would cut the risk of hospitalization and death by 89 percent. Pundits called the drug...
A wave of parents has been radicalized by Covid-era misinformation to reject ordinary childhood immunizations — with potentially lethal consequences. By Moises Velasquez-Manoff The mother of four brought her children, ranging in age from grade school to high school,...
Researchers identified lasting health problems in many different organ systems, including the heart, lungs and kidneys. By Pam Belluck One in five adult Covid survivors under the age of 65 in the United States has experienced at least one health condition that could...
By David Wallace-Wells The pandemic has been furnishing new and distressing episodes almost weekly for more than two years now. But what is in retrospect perhaps the most concerning, for me, came in May 2021, when the International Monetary...
Do fact checkers provide Facebook’s muscle to rob us of free speech? By Paul D. Thacker Emmanuel Vincent is a hunted man. On June 24, an officer of the French Ministry of the Interior, acting under the terms of the Hague Convention, summoned him to a police station...
By Bob Weber An extensive study of thousands of COVID-19 patients in Ontario hospitals found links between the severity of their infections and the levels of common air pollutants they experience. "This adds to existing evidence that air...