China: New COVID-19 Outbreaks Test Appetite for Reopening
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: China takes one step forward and two steps back on its COVID-19...
Vaccines
Updated COVID boosters add to benefit of single-strain doses
A US study of the vaccine effectiveness (VE) of the new bivalent mRNA COVID-19 boosters estimates that they confer 28%...
Will Flu and RSV Always Be This Bad?
In the Northern Hemisphere, this year’s winter hasn’t yet begun. But Melissa J. Sacco, a pediatric-intensive-care specialist at UVA Health,...
Vaccinated Americans a majority of COVID deaths for first time in August: analysis
For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, a majority of Americans dying from the coronavirus were at...
How Covid Myths Spread on Far-Right Social Media Platforms
The Biden administration has pushed social media giants like Facebook to curb Covid misinformation. But it is thriving on fringe...
Dr. Fauci signs off, vows to cooperate in GOP House hearings
Fauci will retire at the end of December, ending four decades as the top infectious disease expert.The White House launched...
Myocarditis after COVID vaccination is rare but higher in younger males
In a recent study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, researchers observed the incidence of myocarditis following messenger ribonucleic...
A Lasting Legacy of COVID: Far-Right Platforms Spreading Health Myths
Jessica Watt Dougherty, who has thrown herself into activism after the death of her father, Randy Watt, from Covid-19 this...
Pre-pandemic conspiratorial mindset predicted hesitance to accept COVID-19 vaccine | Penn Today
Scholars have found that acceptance of COVID-19-related conspiracy theories is associated with hesitance to take a COVID-19 vaccine. But data...
Illinois Coronavirus Updates: Holiday Gathering Advice, New Booster Shots
Hospitals are filling up at rapid rates with children sickened by a variety of respiratory viruses, but what does that...