Category: Covid

Nearly 50,000 preterm births may have been averted across a group of mostly high-income countries in one month alone.

Beijing hits back that the outbreak’s origin is “about science and should not be politicised”.

This is how China’s ruling Communist Party wants people to remember how it handled the Covid-19 pandemic: It was a “miracle in human history.” Every measure the government imposed was…

Kizzmekia Corbett helped lead a team of scientists contributing to one of the most stunning achievements in the history of immunizations: a highly effective, easily manufactured vaccine against Covid-19.

Stop-and-go federal funding floods public health agencies with cash during crises but starves them of funds afterward. The coronavirus pandemic shows the pitfalls of that approach.

Half of the nation’s students began this school year a full year behind grade level in at least one subject because of COVID-19 pandemic disruptions, new national data from the federal Education…

And experts have some theories as to why.

The emergency expires in May, complicating access to tests and treatment in the U.S.

If you are high-risk, the answer is straightforward. If you are low-risk, there is less consensus.

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. So Biden is declaring that Covid is no longer a national emergency (and never mind that Covid is now a leading cause of death among…