[ad_1] On June 3, 2021, a roughly 60-year-old man in the riverside city of Magdeburg, Germany, received his first COVID vaccine. He opted for Johnson &...
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[ad_1] Since the pandemic’s earliest days, epidemiologists have been waiting for the coronavirus to finally snap out of its pan-season spree. No more spring waves like...
[ad_1] The lab-leak theory of COVID’s origin has always been a little squirrelly. If SARS-CoV-2 really did begin infecting humans in a research setting, the evidence...
[ad_1] For many judicial nominees, a Senate confirmation hearing is one of life’s most grueling experiences—an hours-long job interview led by lawmakers who are trying to...
[ad_1] This fall, millions of Americans might be lining up for yet another kind of COVID vaccine: their first-ever dose that lacks the strain that ignited...
[ad_1] In October of 1858, John Stuart Mill and his wife, Harriet, were traveling near Avignon, France. She developed a cough, which seemed like just a...
[ad_1] On one level, the world’s response to the coronavirus pandemic over the past two and half years was a major triumph for modern medicine. We...
[ad_1] A few months ago, I got food poisoning. The sequence of events that led to my downfall began with a carton of discounted grocery-store sushi...
[ad_1] School is in session, pumpkin spice is in season, and Americans are heading to pharmacies for what may soon become another autumn standby: your annual...
[ad_1] The most haunting memory of the pandemic for Laura, a doctor who practices internal medicine in New York, is a patient who never got COVID...