The condition may be common, but issues like fever, shortness of breath, and fatigue can also be signs of other illnesses. By GRACE HUCKINS This points to the infinite complexity of what is Long Covid, what is a pre existing condition exacerbated or triggered by...
By Ari Schulman Mr. Schulman is a science and technology writer and editor of The New Atlantis. This is an excellent critical account of Anthony Fauci’s missteps as well as his strengths. A new wave of journalism is analyzing the many failures in the US response...
COVID damages memory of grant dismissal protestors, but the Internet never forgets By Paul D. Thacker Paul Thatcher is by far one of the best investigative journalists following the Wuhan lab leak theory and the nefarious role of the EcoHealth Alliance in dismissing...
A map of Covid data corruption -- and the Covid approach that worked! By Maxim Lott Unusually candid look at the actual impact of Covid based on a review of excess mortality rather than reported Covid deaths.Michael Lerner Warning: This newsletter will will hit sacred...
Updated Covid vaccines, expected soon after Labor Day, were designed to thwart Omicron variants. But money to distribute them has dried up. By Benjamin Mueller Long past the point when pollsters said there were no more Americans willing to be vaccinated against the...
NPR's All Things Considered AILSA CHANG, HOST Interview with Dr. Bob Wachter, Chair of the Department of Medicine, UCSF ~ Originally aired July 27, 2022 We spoke to Dr. Bob Wachter today, a few days after he went to a gathering of friends from college. And there were...
Two lawsuits filed in Massachusetts and Germany claim the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine violated Moderna’s mRNA patents. By Rebecca Robbins and Jenny Gross The vaccine manufacturer Moderna sued Pfizer and BioNTech on Friday, claiming that its rivals’ Covid-19 shot...
Federal officials are “cautiously optimistic” as monkeypox cases decline, even as health officials announced the first pediatric case in New York City. By Joseph Goldstein and Noah Weiland Health officials said on Thursday that a child had been infected with monkeypox...
The patients turning up at clinics often have a range of symptoms that are not typical of the infection. Some of the infected seem to have no symptoms at all. By Apoorva Mandavilli Early in the monkeypox outbreak, a man in his 20s arrived at an emergency department in...
— 58% of infectious diseases aggravated by climatic hazards at some point, says Camilo Mora by Emily Hutto At the beginning of the COVID pandemic, obviously there was a huge interest in whether this disease was being caused or was caused by climate change. So we...
By Spencer Bokat-Lindell Last week, Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, announced that the agency would be reorganized in light of a damning internal review of its widely criticized response to the...
By Paul D. Thacker A silly preprint uploaded a few weeks back underlined how scientists and scicomm writers easily fall for “research” that tickles them in their political privates. With an authoritative title, “The Efficacy of Facemasks in the Prevention of COVID-19:...
By Yu Wu, PhD1; Liangyu Kang, MD1; Zirui Guo, MD1; et al Key Points Question What are the incubation periods of COVID-19 caused by different SARS-CoV-2 strains? Findings In this systematic review and meta-analysis of 141 articles, the pooled...
By Yasmeen Abutaleb Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s preeminent infectious-disease expert who achieved unprecedented fame while enduring withering political attacks as the face of the coronavirus pandemic response under two presidents, plans to step down in December...
By Corinne Purtill Maureen Miller, an infectious disease epidemiologist and medical anthropologist at Columbia University, was not surprised to learn this week that an Italian greyhound in Paris had become the first dog known to catch monkeypox from a human. The U.S....