By David Wallace-Wells Imagine yourself, if you can, in the months before the Covid-19 pandemic. Imagine being told then that a novel virus would emerge in China that would then spread around the world, infecting much of the global population, by some...
Upcoming Webinar March 9, 5pm PTJoin us on March 9th to learn from Dr. Paul Anderson! COVID, and Long-COVID have brought complex chronic illness to the world stage. In this session, Dr. Anderson will look at the influences of toxicants on immune function and COVID...
Filmmaker and book author Kris Newby dives into the secretive federal research that may have made Lyme disease such a problem in the United States. By Paul Thacker Decades before the COVID outbreak when Americans first began hearing of dangerous “gain of function”...
The conclusion, which was made with “low confidence,” came as America’s intelligence agencies remained divided over the origins of the coronavirus. By Julian E. Barnes New intelligence has prompted the Energy Department to conclude that an accidental laboratory leak...
By Katelyn Jetelina and Kristen Panthagani, MD, PhD On my way back from Turkey, and there’s nothing quite like international travel to help put things into perspective. There are much bigger problems in this world right now than the mask debate. Still, it would be...
By Bret Stephens The most rigorous and comprehensive analysis of scientific studies conducted on the efficacy of masks for reducing the spread of respiratory illnesses — including Covid-19 — was published late last month. Its conclusions, said Tom Jefferson,...
By David Wallace-Wells Whatever happened to our Roaring Twenties? In the first year of the pandemic, it was common to hear predictions that however brutal and harrowing the near future seemed, the world would find itself, at some point, celebrating the end of Covid-19...
A meta-analysis seeks to be the last word on the effectiveness of masks, but finding answers in science isn’t that easy. By Kelsey Piper Here’s a seemingly simple question with a deeply unsimple answer: Do the masks that so many of us spent more than two years...
Obesity made COVID outcomes worse, so governments partnered on jabs with the junk food chain, because of course. By Paul Thacker Back in 2004, Morgan Spurlock rocked the movie industry with “Super Size Me”, a film about a unique medical experiment: what happens to a...
By Gilmar Reis, M.D., Ph.D., et al. Abstract BACKGROUND The efficacy of a single dose of pegylated interferon lambda in preventing clinical events among outpatients with acute symptomatic coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) is unclear. METHODS We conducted a...
To prepare for future outbreaks, we’ll have to decide which is the greater danger: nature or ourselves. By Jacob Stern After three bleak years, the coronavirus pandemic is finally drawing to a close, but pandemics as a general threat very much are not. At the moment,...
By E. Wesley Ely Matt Fitzgerald used to bike up and down 3,500 feet through the Santa Ana Mountains on three-hour rides just for fun. Now, nine months after being infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, he can’t muster walking on flat surfaces for...
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says it is ‘crucial’ to know how the coronavirus pandemic started. he World Health Organization will continue pushing until it finds an answer to how the COVID-19 pandemic started, the agency’s chief has said following a report...
— Healthy BMI and adequate sleep both independently associated with risk of long COVID by Ingrid Hein A healthy lifestyle before COVID-19 infection was associated with a substantially lower risk of a post-COVID condition (PCC), or long COVID, a prospective cohort...
The causes of long COVID, which disables millions, may come together in the brain and nervous system By Stephani Sutherland Tara Ghormley has always been an overachiever. She finished at the top of her class in high school, graduated summa cum laude from college and...