The Next Pandemic: Updates & Prevention

Approving COVID-19 booster shots seemed like a slam dunk, but two influential advisory boards raised a host of complicated questions.

Governments are launching booster programmes over fears about waning immunity levels, but vaccines are still highly effective at what matters most – preventing severe disease.

Once, people were asking to be exempted from measures that kept the public safe. Now the reverse is happening.

In the heated debate over vaccine mandates, science and logic have often been lost amid politics and fear.

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Evaluation of science advice during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden

It took pressure from 239 scientists for the WHO to even admit the new coronavirus may spread via aerosols, but in Japan, they're focusing on solutions.

Facts, data and analytics about biomedical matters

Country failed to collect and share data, masking issues and inequalities, according to editorial in British Medical Journal

It’s cheap, widely available and might help us fend off the virus. So should we all be dosing up on the sunshine nutrient?

For the most part, getting a Covid-19 vaccination shouldn’t change any of your typical health, fitness, or wellness routines, or at least not for more than a day or two. Still, it’s reasonable to…

One simulation of an uncontrolled disease outbreak concluded with riots and the National Guard on the streets.

Pandemic dreams are remarkably common across multiple countries, according to a suite of new studies.

Toronto Public Health just released new individual-level COVID-19 data in order to help people examine the pandemic's trends over time, and it's all …

A wildfire is a better metaphor for this pandemic. We should get used to this and accept that complete normality is a long way off.

Coronavirus cases are continuing to soar across the United States as the death toll tops 112,000. The Washington Post reports COVID-19 hospitalizations are increasing in at least nine states following the reopening of businesses. Texas, North and South Carolina, California, Oregon, Arkansas, Mississippi, Utah and Arizona are all seeing a surge in patients needing medical attention. Texas has seen two consecutive days of record coronavirus hospitalizations. On Tuesday, the nation’s top infectious disease doctor, Anthony Fauci, described the coronavirus as his “worst nightmare” and said the pandemic is not close to over yet. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation has revised its projected U.S. death toll upward, predicting 145,000 deaths by early August.

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Isaac Chotiner interviews Jeffrey Shaman, a professor at Columbia University and the lead author of a new study projecting that COVID-19 cases and deaths will rise significantly if more states reopen.

In April 2020, Chinese researchers at Weifang Medical University published the first peer-reviewed meta-analysis about medical comorbidities and COVID-19 disease severity. They screened several…

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Expert reveals the symptoms of Covid in 2025 - and how long infection now lasts - Experts warn that the virus that sparked the pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, is still circulating

Pandemics kill people in two ways, said Chris Whitty at the start of the Covid outbreak: directly and indirectly, via disruption.

I'm sure there will be conspiracies around this, lol (I should probably be more positive, lol)

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Canada isn’t the beacon of social democracy that many progressive Americans imagine. But when faced with the coronavirus crisis, the US’s inept political class and for-profit health system couldn't even match a country with a moderate welfare state and functional government.