All epidemics trigger the same Sisyphean cycle of panic and neglect. Even so, that cycle isn’t meant to spin this quickly. By Ed Yong All epidemics trigger the same dispiriting cycle. First, panic: As new pathogens emerge, governments throw money, resources, and...
Here are four shapes that the next variant might take—which will also dictate the shape of our response. By Katherine J. Wu If the coronavirus has one singular goal—repeatedly infecting us—it’s only gotten better at realizing it, from Alpha to Delta to Omicron. And it...
The U.S. is nearing 1 million recorded COVID-19 deaths without the social reckoning that such a tragedy should provoke. Why? By Ed Yong he united states reported more deaths from COVID-19 last Friday than deaths from Hurricane Katrina, more on any two recent weekdays...
South Korea has repeatedly suppressed the spread of the virus and kept deaths to relatively low levels. By Uri Friedman About the author: Uri Friedman is the managing editor at the Atlantic Council and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. He was...
Robert Malone claims to have invented mRNA technology. Why is he trying so hard to undermine its use?By Tom Bartlett Originally published in The Atlantic ~ August 12, 2021 Robert Malone—a medical doctor and an infectious-disease researcher—recently suggested that the...
Omicron is inundating a health-care system that was already buckling under the cumulative toll of every previous surge. By Ed Yong hen a health-care system crumbles, this is what it looks like. Much of what’s wrong happens invisibly. At first, there’s just a lot of...
Here’s everything we do. By Katherine J. Wu As fall dips into winter in the Northern Hemisphere, the coronavirus has served up the holiday gift that no one, absolutely no one, asked for: a new variant of concern, dubbed Omicron by the World Health...
Medical professionals are used to being believed, but as patients, they found that their expertise didn’t matter. By Ed Yong Before she caught COVID-19 at a wedding in March 2020, the physician associate spent her days diagnosing and treating people; after she was...
This one is far from over, but the window to prepare for future threats is closing fast. By Ed Yong A year after the United States bombed its pandemic performance in front of the world, the Delta variant opened the stage for a face-saving encore. If the U.S. had...
This has become a common refrain among the cautious—and it’s wrong. By Craig Spencer About the author: Craig Spencer is an emergency-medicine physician and director of global health in emergency medicine at New York Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center. For...
Delta is far from the last variant. But what shape the virus takes next depends on us. By Katherine J. Wu Originally published on August 24, 2021 If evolution is a numbers game, the coronavirus is especially good at playing it. Over the past year and a half, it’s...
A new study suggests that almost half of those hospitalized with COVID-19 have mild or asymptomatic cases. By David Zweig At least 12,000 Americans have already died from COVID-19 this month, as the country inches through its latest surge in cases. But another...
Cases of COVID-19 are rising fast. Vaccine uptake has plateaued. The pandemic will be over one day—but the way there is different now. By Ed Yong Originally Published August 12, 2021 In september 2020, just before COVID-19 began its wintry surge through the...
By Ed Yong Vaccines are still beating the variants, but the unvaccinated world is being pummeled Fifteen months after the novel coronavirus shut down much of the world, the pandemic is still raging. Few experts guessed that by this point, the world would have not one...
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/unlocking-the-mysteries-of-long-covid/618076/ Originally published by: The Atlantic Author: Meghan O'Rourke Date: 4/1/2021 Categories: Integrative Therapies,Recovery,Long Haul