Four years after what was once the “novel coronavirus” was declared a pandemic, COVID remains the most dangerous infectious respiratory illness regularly circulating in the U.S. But a…
Read more Why Are We Still Flu-ifying COVID?Whether it begins next week, next year, or next decade, another pandemic is on its way. Researchers can’t predict precisely when or how the outbreak might begin. Some…
Read more The Other Group of Viruses That Could Cause the Next PandemicPaul Offit is not an anti-vaxxer. His résumé alone would tell you that: A pediatrician at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, he is the co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine…
Read more This Fall’s COVID Vaccines Are for EveryoneAt the start of 2022, as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus blazed across the United States, Seema Lakdawala was in Pittsburgh, finalizing plans to open a brand-new…
Read more An Adorable Way to Study How Kids Get Each Other SickIn March 2020, Yamagata’s trail went cold. The pathogen, one of the four main groups of flu viruses targeted by seasonal vaccines, had spent the first part of…
Read more A Major Breed of Flu Has Gone MissingFor all the legwork that public-health experts have done over the past few years to quash comparisons between COVID-19 and the flu, there sure seems to be a…
Read more COVID Vaccines Are Turning Into Flu ShotsSometime in the spring of 2020, after centuries, perhaps millennia, of tumultuous coexistence with humans, influenza abruptly went dark. Around the globe, documented cases of the viral infection…
Read more The Strongest Signal That Americans Should Worry About Flu This Winter
