Experts say there is no indication that vaccines affect fertility. Most people’s periods go back to normal within one cycle. By Knvul Sheikh Some people experience headaches or sore arms after getting vaccinated. Others may have nausea or swollen lymph nodes. Now, a...
By Ezra Klein, Opinion Columnist We need better technologies to enable a better politics. But we need better politics to create better technologies. Maybe, just maybe, we’re on the verge of getting both. On Monday, President Biden announced that Dr. Renee...
The debut of Omicron-specific vaccines raises a thorny question: How long should you wait between shots? By Benjamin Mueller The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday recommended that the vast majority of Americans receive an updated...
By Ari Schulman Mr. Schulman is a science and technology writer and editor of The New Atlantis. This is an excellent critical account of Anthony Fauci’s missteps as well as his strengths. A new wave of journalism is analyzing the many failures in the US response...
Updated Covid vaccines, expected soon after Labor Day, were designed to thwart Omicron variants. But money to distribute them has dried up. By Benjamin Mueller Long past the point when pollsters said there were no more Americans willing to be vaccinated against the...
Two lawsuits filed in Massachusetts and Germany claim the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine violated Moderna’s mRNA patents. By Rebecca Robbins and Jenny Gross The vaccine manufacturer Moderna sued Pfizer and BioNTech on Friday, claiming that its rivals’ Covid-19 shot...
Federal officials are “cautiously optimistic” as monkeypox cases decline, even as health officials announced the first pediatric case in New York City. By Joseph Goldstein and Noah Weiland Health officials said on Thursday that a child had been infected with monkeypox...
The patients turning up at clinics often have a range of symptoms that are not typical of the infection. Some of the infected seem to have no symptoms at all. By Apoorva Mandavilli Early in the monkeypox outbreak, a man in his 20s arrived at an emergency department in...
By Spencer Bokat-Lindell Last week, Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, announced that the agency would be reorganized in light of a damning internal review of its widely criticized response to the...
The Biden administration will distribute monkeypox vaccine to jurisdictions that adopt a new protocol using one-fifth the regular dose. Critics called the plan “unscientific.” By Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Sharon Otterman and Apoorva Mandavilli The White House, under...
Among other flaws, public guidance during the coronavirus pandemic was “confusing and overwhelming,” the agency said. By Sharon LaFraniere and Noah Weiland Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on Wednesday delivered...
The B.C.G. tuberculosis vaccine may protect against Covid-19 and other infections by broadly bolstering the immune system. By Roni Caryn Rabin In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, when prevention seemed light years away, several scientists launched trials to...
The detection of the virus in sewage suggests it is circulating in the city, Health Department officials said. By Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Otterman Polio outbreaks incited regular panics decades ago, until a vaccine was developed and the disease was largely...
The new guidelines eliminate quarantines and put less emphasis on social distancing, routine surveillance testing and contact tracing. By Emily Anthes The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention loosened Covid-19 guidelines on Thursday, freeing schools and...
This viral illness is not like Covid, but there is cause for concern. Here’s how experts are thinking about it now. By Knvul Sheikh Monkeypox cases are increasing worldwide, including in the United States, which has declared the outbreak a national health...