What Should Go Into This Year’s COVID Vaccine?

May 26, 2023 · Health

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 the pandemic more…

No One Really Knows How Much COVID Is Silently Spreading … Again

February 28, 2023 · Health

In the early days of the pandemic, one of the scariest and most surprising features of SARS-CoV-2 was its stealth. Initially assumed to transmit only from people who…

Is COVID a Common Cold Yet?

December 15, 2022 · Health

At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, one of the worst things about SARS-CoV-2 was that it was so new: The world lacked immunity, treatments, and vaccines. Tests…

Will Flu and RSV Always Be This Bad?

November 23, 2022 · Health

In the Northern Hemisphere, this year’s winter hasn’t yet begun. But Melissa J. Sacco, a pediatric-intensive-care specialist at UVA Health, is already dreading the arrival of the one…