The Covid Virus Keeps Evolving. Why Haven’t Vaccines?
Updating the shots to adapt to rapidly changing variants is easier said than done, even with new mRNA technology. ..
Updating the shots to adapt to rapidly changing variants is easier said than done, even with new mRNA technology. ..
Hesitancy, bureaucracy, inequity, and the need to explain new formulas could slow down vaccine delivery to the last unprotected group. ..
Testing, vaccinating, and contact tracing can control the virus in Europe and North America—unless complacency allows it to take hold. ..
FDA advisers overwhelmingly endorsed the vaccine, which Novavax hopes will sway holdouts to finally get their shots. ..
Graphic images have long been tools of campaigns against smoking and STDs. Researchers want to know if can they work for infectious diseases like Covid. ..
Two new studies found genetic mutations that cause severe immune deficiencies are common in some remote populations, leaving them highly vulnerable to viruses. ..
The acerbic optimist thinks anxious people (like me) need to move on from Covid and start planning for the next vicious pathogen. ..
The vast majority of tick-borne disease goes unrecorded, meaning life-threatening pathogens are traveling under the radar to new locations. ..
With clinical vaccine trials for everything from HIV to Zika, messenger RNA could transform medicine—or widen health care inequalities. ..
Routine shots are down for everything from measles to tetanus to polio, leaving kids unprotected and raising the risk of outbreaks. ..