A wave of parents has been radicalized by Covid-era misinformation to reject ordinary childhood immunizations — with potentially lethal consequences. By Moises Velasquez-Manoff The mother of four brought her children, ranging in age from grade school to high school,...
Researchers identified lasting health problems in many different organ systems, including the heart, lungs and kidneys. By Pam Belluck One in five adult Covid survivors under the age of 65 in the United States has experienced at least one health condition that could...
By David Wallace-Wells The pandemic has been furnishing new and distressing episodes almost weekly for more than two years now. But what is in retrospect perhaps the most concerning, for me, came in May 2021, when the International Monetary...
There is no universal definition of the complex condition, but clues about causes and potential treatments are beginning to emerge. By Knvul Sheikh and Pam Belluck Among the many confounding aspects of the coronavirus is the spectrum of possible symptoms, as well...
By Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer When my partner’s father died of Covid-19 in April 2020, what I found my thoughts lingering on, in the numb days and weeks that followed, were his text messages. “I have the. Virus” is how we first found out he’d gotten it, a phrase whose...
By Roni Caryn Rabin Just weeks after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began a comprehensive internal review with an eye toward restructuring, the agency’s director announced on Friday that the team that coordinated the national response to the...
By Apoorva Mandavilli As the coronavirus morphs into a stubborn and unpredictable facet of everyday life, scientists and federal health officials are converging on a new strategy for immunizing Americans: a vaccination campaign this fall, perhaps with doses that are...
By Adeel Hassan Governments around the world are no better prepared today to address a new global disease threat than they were just before the coronavirus outbreak began in late 2019, a World Health Organization panel concluded in a report released on...
By Pam Belluck More than three-quarters of Americans diagnosed with long Covid were not sick enough to be hospitalized for their initial infection, a new analysis of tens of thousands of private insurance claims reported on Wednesday. The researchers...
By Sharon LaFraniere, Michael D. Shear and Sheryl Gay Stolberg Federal health officials warned on Wednesday that a third of Americans live in areas where the threat of Covid-19 is now so high that they should consider wearing a mask in indoor public...
By Akiko Iwasaki Dr. Iwasaki is a professor of immunobiology at Yale School of Medicine. She studies Covid-19 vaccines and immunity. The Covid-19 vaccines authorized for use today were developed at unprecedented speed and surpassed expectations in how well they...
The spread of the Omicron variant has given scientists an unsettling answer: repeatedly, sometimes within months. By Apoorva Mandavilli A virus that shows no signs of disappearing, variants that are adept at dodging the body’s defenses, and waves of infections two,...
The United States and Australia share similar demographics, but their pandemic death rates point to very different cultures of trust. By Damien Cave If the United States had the same Covid death rate as Australia, about 900,000 lives would have been saved. The Texas...
Some research has shown that lingering Covid symptoms are more prevalent in people in their 30s and 40s — when workers are often in the prime of their careers. How will companies support employees with debilitating symptoms that can linger for months or even years...
But those who lost people to Covid have traveled a different, isolated path. The Lost Americans Nearly one million people have died from Covid in the United States. Many of the loved ones they left behind are grieving in a nation that wants to move on. By Julie Bosman...