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When President Joe Biden tripped on the stairs up to Air Force One on March 19, the incident immediately touched off a flurry of mockery. Fox News host Sean Hannity declared the President to be frail. He didnt know where the hell he was, former President Donald Trump said in an interview with Lara Trump. […] More
(LONDON) The European Unions drug agency said Wednesday that it found a possible link between the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine and a rare clotting disorder but recommended that vaccinations continue in adults, saying the benefits of the shot still outweigh risks. The European Medicines Agency described the clots as very rare side effects. It said most […] More
Theres been a collective quality to the dying the world has witnessed since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The nearly 3 million global deaths that have been recorded so far have not been discrete events; rather, each one has radiated outward, leaving holes in families, neighborhoods, entire communities. There is perhaps no hole more […] More
Today, W.S. in Florida asks: The second dose of Pfizer-BioNTechs vaccine should ideally be given three weeks after the first. (Modernas second dose is meant to be given four weeks after the first, while the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen shot is delivered in a single dose.) But, well, sometimes life gets in the way. So what […] More
After four months and 171 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines administered across the U.S., more than a few of us are eager to know: are the shots working? Thus far, available evidence can half-answer that question: The vaccines are working well for those who can get them. As soon as the rollout kicked off, a […] More
If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us anything, it is that health is a commodity bestowed readily on some and denied to so many others. Within months of the COVID-19 virus reaching U.S. shores, it became clear that the disease hit certain groups harder, contributing to more severe illness and higher hospitalization and death rates […] More
While there are three safe and effective vaccines authorized in the U.S. to protect against COVID-19, theres still a lot about vaccine immunity that researchers are still trying to figure out. One question has to do with the millions in the U.S. who have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 and recovered. Do they have natural immunity […] More
One of evolutions cleverest tricks was giving us a sense of shame. Its a miserable feelinglow, humbling, publicly discomfitingbut its supposed to be: if you do something lousy you ought to feel something lousy, so you dont do it again. In theory, when so many of the strategies for beating the COVID-19 pandemic depend on […] More
Riding the New York City subway during cold and flu season used to test your stomach. The woman next to you was coughing. The guy behind her was sneezing. Somebody was always fishing for a tissue. Thats a distant memory now. The subway is far emptier, for one thingand with the riders onboard almost universally […] More
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today announced the news many people have been waiting for: People fully vaccinated against COVID-19 can safely return to their vacations, family visits and business trips. Up until today, the CDC took a more cautious stance on travel, recommending that even fully vaccinated peoplethose who received […] More
COVID-19 has taught us many deadly lessons, among them how dangerous it is to approach a health problem as a political problem. We have lost lives, jobs, hope, and an imagined future, all because scoring political points became more important than following the science. This is not the first time that Americans have made this […] More
Pfizer-BioNTech says their COVID-19 vaccine is 100% efficacious in protecting adolescents aged 12 to 15 years from COVID-19 disease. On March 31, the companies released a statement summarizing the results of their study of the safety and efficacy of their vaccine, which is already authorized in the U.S. and elsewhere for use in adults 16 […] More