It’s time to fix the staggering global inequities in access to COVID-19 vaccines, writes Gavin Yamey in a
February 25, 2021
It’s not only sick patients who help researchers understand diseases. In the 1990s, a rare genetic mutation in 1 man who seemed impervious to HIV proved key to creating antiretrovirals against the disease, opening up “a whole new realm of medical science.”
February 25, 2021
Good news on reinfection front: US NIH researchers found that people with SARS-CoV-2 antibodies showed “substantial” immunity to the virus at least for a few months,
February 24, 2021
Superspreader events have long been recognized as a key player in this pandemic.
February 24, 2021
Behind each COVID-19 death is an unfathomable ordeal that is largely witnessed only by physicians and nurses. The struggle for air is like breathing through a very narrow straw… indefinitely. Lungs feel “full of bees.”
February 24, 2021
Children—who have largely been spared from the worst effects of COVID-19—are at the back of the vaccine line,
February 23, 2021
Responding to the rise of variants, the US FDA has issued new guidance for pharmaceutical companies on adapting COVID-19
February 23, 2021
Coronavirus cases are surging in Iraq amid widespread shirking of restrictions like mask-wearing and doubt about whether the pandemic is real. New daily cases, which were under 600 a month ago, reached 3,896 on last week. Half of them involve the variant discovered in the…
February 23, 2021
Latin American governments are accusing Pfizer of “bullying” in COVID-19 vaccine negotiations—saying it is insisting upon extreme guarantees against future legal cases like using embassies and military bases as collateral. Protections for vaccine manufacturers in case of…
