Japan, which has been very cautious throughout the pandemic, is again barring all nonresident foreigners. There is an economic and human cost. By Motoko Rich and Hikari Hida With the emergence of the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus late last week, countries...
By Aina J. Khan and Isabella Grullón Paz As the world scrambled to prevent the spread of the new Omicron coronavirus variant that was first detected in southern Africa, Britain’s Health Security Agency confirmed on Saturday that two cases of the variant had been...
The Omicron variant carries worrisome mutations that may let it evade antibodies, scientists said. But it will take more research to know how it fares against vaccinated people. By Carl Zimmer Scientific experts at the World Health Organization warned on Friday that a...
By Rebecca Robbins The pharmaceutical company Merck said on Friday that in a final analysis of a clinical trial, its antiviral pill reduced the risk of hospitalization and death among high-risk Covid patients by 30 percent, down from an earlier estimate of 50 percent....
Britain, Israel and Singapore have restricted travel from the region. South African scientists will meet with W.H.O. experts on Friday. Scientists in South Africa on Thursday identified a concerning new coronavirus variant with mutations that one scientist said marked...
A series of restrictions, including a lockdown in Austria, is expected to put a brake on economic growth. By Patricia Cohen and Melissa Eddy Europe’s already fragile economic recovery is at risk of being undermined by a fourth wave of coronavirus infections...
In pockets of Europe, vaccine resistance has become the long tail of the populist nationalist movements that shook up European politics for a decade. By Katrin Bennhold Sven Müller is proudly unvaccinated. He thinks Covid vaccines are neither effective nor safe but a...
More than 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in the yearlong period ending in April, government researchers said. By Roni Caryn Rabin Americans died of drug overdoses in record numbers as the pandemic spread across the country, federal researchers reported on...
Regulators are set to clear extra doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine as soon as Thursday, after states began expanding eligibility on their own. By Noah Weiland and Sharon LaFraniere The Food and Drug Administration is aiming to authorize booster doses of...
Guest Essay in The New York Times by Rebecca Adler-Nissen, Sune Lehmann and Andreas Roepstorff The authors are Danish researchers for the HOPE Project, a study of how democracies cope with Covid-19. Since mid-September, Denmark has tried living as if the pandemic was...
Thinking about Covid and normalcy. By David Leonhardt ~ photo above: Dr. Robert M. Wachter. Credit...Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle Among the Covid experts I regularly talk with, Dr. Robert Wachter is one of the more cautious. He worries about “long Covid,” and...
By John Yoon Singapore will no longer cover the medical costs of Covid-19 patients who are eligible to get vaccinated against the virus but choose not to, the country’s Health Ministry said. “We will begin charging Covid-19 patients who are unvaccinated by choice” on...
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...
By Austan Goolsbee Mr. Goolsbee is a professor of economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 2010 to 2011. Americans everywhere remain concerned about getting past what feels like a...
The partisan gap in Covid’s death toll has grown faster over the past month than at any previous point. By David Leonhardt As 2020 wound down, there were good reasons to believe that the death toll during the pandemic’s first year might have been worse in red America....