Experts say the U.S. government has unintentionally encouraged a dependency on imported masks by failing to promote elastomeric respirators, a reusable mask that is domestically produced. By Andrew Jacobs Three years into the pandemic, elastomeric respirators —...
Intense research into the new coronavirus variant first identified in southern Africa has just begun. World leaders have urged people not to panic — and to get vaccinated, if they can. By Andrew Jacobs What is the Omicron variant?First identified in Botswana and South...
The analysis by Penn State and Iowa researchers strongly indicates that deer are getting the virus from humans, worrying experts about a deep wild reservoir for the virus. By Andrew Jacobs A new study of hundreds of white-tailed deer infected with the...