A lack of preparation has been costly, but the pace of research offers promise for Year 2 One year ago, the World Health Organization declared that the...
Listen to governments around the world and the COVID-19 strategy is remarkably similar: muddle our way through until we have vaccinated enough of the population and...
President Joe Biden has promised enough covid vaccine to immunize every willing adult by June 1. But right now, the gap between supply and demand is...
Revisit the first topics we wrote about in our Coronavirus Update newsletter One year ago, Science News published the first of our Coronavirus Update newsletters. The goal was to provide...
In previous respiratory virus outbreaks, such as Sars and Mers (both caused by coronaviruses), pregnant women infected with the virus were more likely to die or...
“Eat dirt!” is a phrase I remember well. It was in the title of an article published by Harvard University environmental health professor, Dr. Scott T....
Since COVID-19 emerged, access to eye care has continued to change. Lockdowns and concerns about virus exposure have caused people of all ages to cancel and...
The COVID vaccines are working. Data from Israel and Scotland shows that they are protecting people and may also be decreasing the spread of the SARS-CoV-2...
There’s a reason soldiers go through basic training before heading into combat: Without careful instruction, green recruits armed with powerful weapons could be as dangerous to...
Their antibody levels were 500 times higher than in people vaccinated but never infected People who have already had COVID-19 — even if they didn’t show...