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Bats Could Hold the Secret to Better, Longer Human Life
In Linfa Wang’s ideal world, all humans would be just a bit…
One More COVID Summer?
Since the pandemic’s earliest days, epidemiologists have been waiting for the coronavirus…
The COVID-Origins Debate Has Split Into Parallel Worlds
The lab-leak theory of COVID’s origin has always been a little squirrelly.…
Only the Emergency Has Ended
Emergency responses—being, well, emergency responses—aren’t designed to last forever, and this morning,…
Will COVID’s Spring Lull Last?
By all official counts—at least, the ones still being tallied—the global situation…
A Major Clue to COVID’s Origins Is Just Out of Reach
Updated at 2:45 p.m. on March 21, 2023 Last week, the ongoing…
The Strongest Evidence Yet That an Animal Started the Pandemic
For three years now, the debate over the origins of the coronavirus…
The COVID Question That Will Take Decades to Answer
To be a newborn in the year 2023—and, almost certainly, every year…
New Class of Drugs May Prevent Infection by Wide Range of COVID-19 Variants
RESEARCH SUMMARY Publication: Nature Genetics https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-023-01307-z Dana-Farber Cancer Institute author: Cigall Kadoch,…
COVID Vaccines Are Turning Into Flu Shots
For all the legwork that public-health experts have done over the past…
Trying to Stop Long COVID Before It Even Starts
Three years into the global fight against SARS-CoV-2, the arsenal to combat…
Consider Armadillo COVID
This past spring, Amanda Goldberg crouched in the leafy undergrowth of a…
Is COVID a Common Cold Yet?
At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, one of the worst things…
Will Flu and RSV Always Be This Bad?
In the Northern Hemisphere, this year’s winter hasn’t yet begun. But Melissa…
Will We Get Omicron’d Again?
In COVID terms, the middle of last autumn looked a lot like…
The Worst Pediatric-Care Crisis in Decades
At the height of the coronavirus pandemic, as lines of ambulances roared…
COVID Antibody Treatments Are in Decline
For the first couple of years of the coronavirus pandemic, the crisis…
Ringo Starr Has Covid-19 Rebound, Cancels 2022 Tour
After testing positive for Covid-19 again, Ringo Starr (seen here with his…
Warning Signs About the First Post-pandemic Winter
This fall, unlike the one before it, and the one before that,…