Genetic samples from the market were recently uploaded to an international database and then removed after scientists asked China about them. By Benjamin Mueller An international team of virus experts said on Thursday that they had found genetic data from a market in...
By Sara Van Note In the summer and fall of 2021, West Nile virus spread rapidly through Arizona’s Maricopa County and other areas of the state. The outbreak, with more than 1,700 cases reported and 127 deaths. was the largest in the United States since the...
Neither scholar nor journalist, a media influencer cuts down competitors in an academic knife fight. by Paul Thacker Parading across social media with her latest New York Times headline, Columbia University professor Zeynep Tufekci announced to a planet weary of...
By David Wallace-Wells n both the United States and Britain, there is suddenly a front-and-center debate about the very earliest days of the pandemic and how each country responded. Did mitigation measures imposed in the spring of 2020, amid great anxiety and...
Genetic research from China suggests to some experts that the coronavirus may have sprung from a seafood market in Wuhan. Now the data are missing from a scientific database. By Benjamin Mueller The World Health Organization rebuked Chinese officials on Friday for...
Researchers and the National Institutes of Health gamed the science. Follow the documents, follow the money. by Paul D. Thacker For three and a half years, I ran investigations for the United States Senate looking into corruption in science and medicine. The New York...
Scathing open letter accuses big pharma of ‘exploiting’ publically funded vaccines and says humanity must come before commerce By Sarah Johnson The Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, former first lady of South Africa and Mozambique Graça Machel and former UN secretary...
The Cochrane Review 'Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses' was published in January 2023 and has been widely misinterpreted. Karla Soares-Weiser, Editor-in-Chief of the Cochrane Library, has responded on behalf of...
It’s been three years since the Covid-19 pandemic began, and yet many aspects of how to best respond to a novel virus remain unsettled or fiercely debated. The next currently unknown virus that could cause a pandemic — what the World Health Organization calls “Disease...
BY CHRIS WALZER We’re three years into the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic responsible for at least 6.8 million deaths (although the true number may be closer to 15 million), immeasurable suffering and social turmoil, as well as direct and indirect global...
— Losing streak continues for controversial antiparasitic by Ed Susman A higher dose of ivermectin given for a longer duration still failed to offer any benefit in mild to moderate COVID-19, data from a large randomized U.S. trial showed. In the ACTIV-6 trial of more...
By ZEYNEP TUFEKCI The debate over masks’ effectiveness in fighting the spread of the coronavirus intensified recently when a respected scientific nonprofit said its review of studies assessing measures to impede the spread of viral illnesses found it was...
— Continued efforts to reduce ambient air pollution levels are needed, researchers say by Elizabeth Short Long-term exposure to ambient air pollution was associated with an increased risk of long COVID among young adults, according to a Swedish population-based cohort...
By Mary Van Beusekom Swiss researchers find that the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant is much less likely to lead to long COVID than the original, wild-type virus. The research, to be presented at next month's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious...
Both U.S. political parties are now open to the idea that Covid may have come from a lab in China. By German Lopez A new House committee investigating the origins of Covid opened its first public hearing yesterday with plenty of political theater....