Betsy Arakawa, the wife of actor Gene Hackman, searched the internet for information about flu and Covid symptoms and breathing techniques in the days before she died, police records have…
Even though most of the press and general public have tuned out, the Covid-conscious have kept their eyes on research and news reports of long-term conditions and/or slow to be…
It has been a bad week, borderline flu, just like everyone else in the office since the new year (with 7 of 18 having had a COVID relapse earlier). Plus,…
The second influential publication to dismiss the possibility of a lab leak was a letter published in early 2020 in The Lancet. The letter, which described the idea as a…
When the pandemic upended our lives five years ago today, it gave researchers a rare chance to learn more about who we are and how we live. The entire world…
Five years after Covid-19 shut down activities all over the world, medical historians sometimes struggle to place the pandemic in context. What, they are asking, should this ongoing viral threat…
The first Trump administration deserves fair praise for accelerating the development of these vaccines through Operation Warp Speed, a public-private partnership. But it was the private sector that prevailed and…
Five years — and hundreds of millions of cases — after the World Health Organization declared the Covid-19 pandemic, scientists are getting a clearer picture of how the virus can…
The quality that made the tightly knit Fusco family great was the very thing that exacted the harshest price. Two dozen or so relatives had gathered five years ago for…
Ronald Chammah, who owns a pair of small cinemas on the Left Bank of Paris, remembers well the grim days in 2022, when he wondered whether the French passion for…