The Teeny, Tiny Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill
All pandemic long, scientists brawled over how the virus spreads. Droplets! No, aerosols! At the heart of the fight was a mysterious error in decades-old ..
All pandemic long, scientists brawled over how the virus spreads. Droplets! No, aerosols! At the heart of the fight was a mysterious error in decades-old ..
Kids as young as 12 are now authorized for Pfizer’s vaccine. That could make it easier for campuses to reopen this fall—but it introduces a whole new set of decisions. ..
Catch up on the most important updates from this week. ..
They’re really very good, and they’re the only way out of the pandemic. But a tour through the numbers could bring the vaccine-hesitant into the tent. ..
Hashtags have provided a kind of emergency hotline—but the need for mutual aid on social media is also a rebuke to the government. ..
Covid-19 is still raging, but so are efforts to nip its successor in the bud—thanks to data sharing, political cooperation, or a multimillion-dollar ..
Catch up on the most important updates from this week. ..
The “hygiene hypothesis” says early contact with microbes trains our immune systems. But what happens after a year of distancing? ..
Catch up on the most important updates from this week. ..
The safety pause in giving the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine is up for debate again—a battle in a Secret War of Denominators and risk-benefit ..