A medical staff member treats a patient infected by the COVID-19 at a hospital in Wuhan, China, Feb. 22, 2020. (STR/AFP via Getty Images) WASHINGTON — With tensions between the United States and China deepening, the question of how and where the coronavirus originated remains an intense point of contention, especially as the “lab leak”…
WASHINGTON — Science author Nicholas Wade came to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to testify at a Republican panel on the origins of the coronavirus, but he was instead confronted with questions about “A Troublesome Inheritance,” his controversial 2014 book on race and genetics, which Democrats noted had been endorsed by the notorious racist and antisemite…
For the last 18 months, the original COVID-19 vaccines — first as a two-dose series, then as boosters — have done an extraordinary job shielding us from illness, hospitalization and death. Globally, they saved nearly 20 million lives in 2021 alone. Even today, unvaccinated Americans are twice as likely as vaccinated Americans to test positive…
Top US health officials warned Tuesday that a surge of COVID-19 cases driven by the highly transmissible Omicron subvariant BA.5 has arrived, but stressed that the country has the tools — like vaccines and antiviral treatments — to prevent people from getting seriously ill. “We know how to manage it,” Dr. Ashish Jha, coordinator of…
“The 360” shows you different perspectives on the day’s top stories and debates. What’s happening In the weeks following the Supreme Court’s ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade and ended constitutional protections for abortion, the White House has come under strong criticism from many Democrats for what they see as a tepid response from President…
“The 360” shows you different perspectives on the day’s top stories and debates. What’s happening As cases of monkeypox continue to rise in the United States, public health experts are beginning to question whether it’s too late to prevent the infectious disease — which has been endemic in parts of Africa for decades — from…
Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Tuesday to endorse emergency authorization of a new COVID-19 vaccine developed by the Maryland biotechnology company Novavax, making it the fourth immunization to clear that hurdle in the US — and the first to rely on the same familiar technology as some seasonal flu shots….
WASHINGTON — The day after a newly coronavirus-free President Biden embarked on a post-infection vacation to South Carolinathe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released revisions to pandemic guidance that clearly indicate a shift from the state-of-emergency approach that has been in place, at least on the federal level, since 2020. The new rules, unveiled…
“The 360” shows you different perspectives on the day’s top stories and debates. What’s happening Earlier this month, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it is planning to rename the disease known as monkeypox and even created a way for the public to weigh in on what the disease should be called in the…
A case of poliovirus — the first detected in the US in nearly a decade — was found in a suburban New York community in July when health officials announced that an unvaccinated man had contracted the disease. He had not traveled overseas during the period of exposure, which suggests he contracted it in this…
