A meta-analysis, a synthesis of 151 studies on seroprevalence in Africa between January 2020 and December 2021 and now uploaded to a preprint server while under peer review suggests up to 65% of Africans, continent-wide, have already been infected with SARS-CoV-2, the...
By Kristen V Brown Why do vaccines wear off so quickly? In this week's edition of the Covid Q&A, we look at the waning effectiveness of vaccines. In hopes of making this very confusing time just a little less so, each week Bloomberg...
By Andrew Joseph and Matthew Herper hen the Food and Drug Administration last month announced it would be holding another meeting of its panel of outside vaccine experts, it seemed like it would be a general discussion about a second set of Covid-19 boosters:...
— This past week in healthcare investigations by Kristina Fiore The Nonprofit at the Center of the COVID Origin Debate Vanity Fair's Katherine Eban details the evolution of the EcoHealth Alliance, the American non-profit with extensive ties to the Wuhan Institute...
By Chase Doyle COVID-19 may have caught the world off guard in 2020, but in the 2 years since the pandemic began, several effective monoclonal antibodies and antiviral drugs have emerged to protect the most vulnerable patients. The ASCO Post spoke with Gunjan L. Shah,...
Why haven’t cases started rising again in the U.S.? By David Leonhardt To many people’s surprise — including mine — new Covid-19 cases in the U.S. have not begun to rise. Over the past two weeks, they have held roughly steady, falling about 1 percent, even...
By Jen Christensen A fourth dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine seems to offer short-lived protection against infection overall, but protection against severe illness did not wane for at least several weeks, according to a new study. The study, published...
These findings reflect prior studies by Israeli health funds and the Health Ministry regarding the effectiveness of the fourth dose in protecting against severe illness. A fourth dose of the COVID-19 vaccine provides people people aged 60 and up with three...
Handicapped by advocacy and meager reporting skills, science writers settle for constructing and defending "decoy" narratives. By Paul Thacker Last summer, Amy Maxmen wrote a couple of audacious articles in Nature attempting to downplay the possibility of a lab...
— Kristina Lawson depicted as Nazi: "It is disturbing to be targeted by anti-science zealots" by Cheryl Clark Kristina Lawson, president of the California Medical Board, is again publicly fighting back against the controversial group America's Frontline Doctors and...
A new SARS-CoV-2 subvariant has emerged from China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Also, a new subvariant surfaced in the UK. As reported in the government-owned Global Times, this new subvariant labeled BA.1.1 doesn’t look to match the existing...
Do groupthink and politics drive federal healthcare policy, including U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory decisions? TrialSite has suggested for nearly a couple of years now that a growing gap exists between actual science and COVID-19 federal...
Many states in the U.S. have been moving forward with legislation making the “controversial” medication ivermectin available over the counter, allowing physicians to prescribe the drug and pharmacists to dispense the medication without suffering a legal penalty....
Dr. Robert Malone says he helped invent mRNA vaccines and has been wronged for decades. Now he’s spreading unfounded claims about the vaccines and the virus. By Davey Alba MADISON, Va. — “I haven’t been able to ride a horse in months,” Dr. Robert Malone said from his...
While COVID vaccinations increased cardiac risks in some young men, the virus itself was much more likely to cause heart problems, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found in a study released Friday. “The risk for cardiac complications was...