CDC study says Covid shots continue to protect healthy kids from severe illness

Researchers found that Covid vaccines reduced the risk of emergency room and urgent care visits by 56% to 76%. Some federal ...

Covid Vaccines Reduced Children’s Likelihood of E.R. and Urgent Care Visits, the C.D.C. Reported

The vaccines were found to decrease the risk of needing medical care in the first six months after vaccination by 76 percent ...
Scientific American

Scientists Explain How mRNA COVID Vaccines May Rarely Cause Myocarditis

A new study identifies a mechanism for how COVID vaccines may, in infrequent cases, drive heart inflammation, a condition ...
Nature

Five years of COVID vaccines: how a breakthrough created a public-health crisis

Physician and science communicator Kristen Panthagani talks about why public trust in vaccines has fallen since the COVID-19 ...

Much of £11bn Covid scheme fraud 'beyond recovery', report says

The response to the pandemic led to "enormous outlays of public money which exposed it to the risk of fraud and error", a ...

FDA chief says Biden administration withheld data on heart risk from Covid vaccines

Myocarditis is a known — but small — side effect of the mRNA Covid vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, information that federal ...
Nature

Long-COVID research just got a big funding boost: will it find new treatments?

The German government has committed half a billion euros for research on long COVID and other post-infection syndromes.

Covid 2020: The year of the quiet ocean

During the lockdowns of 2020, global shipping was severely restricted and ocean noise pollution all but ceased. Instead the ...

Flu, COVID cases surge as holiday shopping, gatherings fuel spread in New Jersey and Pennsylvania

Experts say the holiday season is prime for contagious illnesses to spread in crowded places like malls, airports and holiday ...