In advance of a scientific meeting on Thursday, officials proposed offering new shots to Americans each fall, a strategy long employed against the flu. By Apoorva Mandavilli Americans may be offered a single dose of a Covid vaccine each fall, much as they are given...
The nation’s top infectious disease expert, whose last day as a federal employee is Saturday, plans to write a memoir and wants to encourage people to go into public service. By Sheryl Gay Stolberg The walls in Dr. Anthony S. Fauci’s home office are adorned with...
In the absence of credible information from the Chinese government, researchers around the world are looking for any clues to determine the size and severity of the surge. By Alexandra Stevenson and Benjamin Mueller As Covid barrels through China, scientists...
Doctors are exasperated by the persistence of false and misleading claims about the virus. By Tiffany Hsu Nearly three years into the pandemic, Covid-19 remains stubbornly persistent. So, too, does misinformation about the virus. As Covid cases,...
After micromanaging the coronavirus strategy for nearly three years, the country’s leader, Xi Jinping, has suddenly left the populace to improvise. By Chris Buckley, Alexandra Stevenson and Keith Bradsher The southwestern city of Chongqing was the latest frontline of...
By Amy Schoenfeld Walker After two difficult Covid winters, the current season of respiratory sickness already rivals some of the worst cold and flu seasons on record — and it started about two months early. Percent of weekly doctor and hospital visits for respiratory...
By Paul Krugman, Opinion Columnist Will Republicans once again nominate Donald Trump for president? Or will they turn to Ron DeSantis instead? I have no idea. What I do know is that anyone imagining DeSantis as a more sensible, saner figure than Trump — a right-wing...
Huge swaths of the nation’s elderly remain vulnerable, scientists say, and a surge in deaths and hospitalizations may be inevitable. By Benjamin Mueller and Alexandra Stevenson Originally published December 2, 2022 in The New York Times As one country after another...
A high-quality, well-fitting mask is your best protection against infection from the coronavirus, influenza and R.S.V. By Dana G. Smith Masks are back, and, this time, they’re not just for Covid-19. A “tripledemic” of the coronavirus, influenza and respiratory...
A high-quality, well-fitting mask is your best protection against infection from the coronavirus, influenza and R.S.V. By Dana G. Smith Masks are back, and, this time, they’re not just for Covid-19. A “tripledemic” of the coronavirus, influenza and respiratory...
The Twitter owner has taken shots at targets like Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s chief immunologist, in moves that may appeal to the right, but not advertisers. By Andrew Ross Sorkin, et al. Why Elon Musk might be taking on Anthony Fauci Since taking over Twitter,...
By Anthony Fauci Dr. Fauci is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health. lthough I hesitate to use the hackneyed expression “It seems like just yesterday,” it does feel that way as I prepare to...
Residents lined up at hospitals and pharmacies, seeking help for fevers and buying at-home tests after the government’s decision to ease its “zero Covid” policy. By Keith Bradsher At a hospital in the affluent Beijing district of Chaoyang, close to 100 people lined up...
Beijing had long warned that the only effective response was testing, quarantine and lockdowns. As it shifts policy, it must change how it portrays the risks. By Keith Bradsher For nearly three years, the Chinese government deployed its considerable propaganda...
By David Wallace-Wells More than one-sixth of the people on the planet live in China. That’s 1.4 billion people who have spent the last three years in the world’s most intrusive pandemic surveillance state, designed to limit the spread of Covid-19 at almost any cost....