Category: Covid

On Jan. 11, 2020, in Shanghai, just 11 days after first reports of the outbreak in Wuhan circulated globally, a team of scientists led by Yong-Zhen Zhang of Fudan University…

By KLG, who has held research and academic positions in three US medical schools since 1995 and is currently Professor of Biochemistry and Associate Dean. He has performed and directed…

By Clayton Dalton, a writer in New Mexico, where he works as an emergency physician. Originally published at Undark. When President Biden said last fall that “the pandemic is over,”…

The United States has reached a milestone in the long struggle against Covid: The total number of Americans dying each day — from any cause — is no longer historically…

By Lambert Strether of Corrente Science is popping! Nature’s editors[1] and reviewers must have had quite at time doing all these papers more or less at once. And it’s certainly…

On today’s episode of the 5 Things podcast: With COVID-19 quarantines in the rearview, grade school students are now meeting in classrooms in person after years spent learning at home.…

A declassified report finds no direct evidence the virus came from a lab, but adds it can’t be ruled out.

An Associated Press analysis found that fraudsters potentially stole more than $280 billion in COVID-19 relief funding; another $123 billion was wasted or misspent. The loss represents 10 percent of…

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. On May 25 of this year, JAMA published Development of a Definition of Postacute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection (“Definition”), an “original investigation” whose authors were…

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. With respect to “upticks” — Covid “upticks” going up, “plummets” going down — both Covid and the public health establishment (and the political class (and…