Moderna’s patent application names several employees as the sole inventors of a crucial component of its coronavirus vaccine, excluding three government scientists. By Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Rebecca Robbins Moderna and the National Institutes of Health are...
Resistance to vaccine mandates, once a fringe position, has entered the Republican mainstream. But the governors fighting President Biden’s Covid-19 vaccine requirements impose mandates of their own. By Sheryl Gay Stolberg Like other Republican governors around the...
An evolving virus and 18 months of ever-changing pandemic messaging have left Americans angry, exhausted and skeptical of public health advice. By Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Michael D. Shear A week of public health reversals from the White House and the Centers for...
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg The highly infectious Delta variant now accounts for an estimated 83 percent of new coronavirus cases in the United States — a “dramatic increase” from early July, when it crossed the 50 percent threshold to become the dominant variant in this...
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg After meeting with company representatives, officials said the decision would depend partly on data on infections in vaccinated people that cause serious disease or hospitalization. Representatives of Pfizer met privately with senior U.S....