June 16, 2021

BENTONVILLE, Ark., June 16, 2021 — Walmart is empowering people with increased access to their health data through a free, secure digital wallet that they own and decide whether to use to share their health information, starting with the COVID-19 vaccine record. The offering provides individuals with an opportunity to securely store their COVID-19…

Health agencies and medics tells the BBC of a growing crisis facing low-income African nations.

The country has been far slower than others including the UK and the US to immunise its population.

Fauci on Wednesday argued it’s a “bit of a distortion” to claim he “deliberately suppressed” the lab leak theory.

The pandemic and political tensions might slow the march towards more globalized science.

But a thriving relationship needs clearer rules around data ownership and intellectual property – and public trust in the process.

Despite the consensus that mass vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 will ultimately end the pandemic, it is not clear when and which control measures can be relaxed during the rollout of vaccination programmes. Here, the authors investigate relaxation scenarios using an age-structured transmission model that has been fitted to data for Portugal.

Run-of-the-mill runny noses and coughs are back, after a break during the pandemic's height, when so many of us were circulating less and wearing masks. Here's how to keep household viruses at bay.

The pandemic created disruption and family stress that may have lasting effects on young children’s social and emotional development.

Some officials wanted to blame China for covering up the pandemic’s origins and to allege that it came from a research facility in Wuhan.