July 16, 2021

Why young adults remain hesitant about the COVID-19 vaccine, and what health officials are doing to combat it.

Dr. Anthony Fauci got a lesson in internet slang from Olivia Rodrigo.

Will we all be wearing them indoors soon?

A philosopher of public health ponders whether taking your mask off on July 19 is like punching someone in the face or like riding a bike.

The ‘Iron Lady’ of Paris has been closed since October, the landmark’s longest closure since World War II.

Hospital resources pushed to limit as violence, looting grip parts of country already struggling to cope with pandemic.

The WHO is worried about a third wave in African countries, many of which lag behind in vaccinations.

Dr. Rizzo answered our questions about the COVID-19 variant that is on the rise. Early research suggests Delta is possibly more dangerous and twice as likely to lead to hospitalization.

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected people’s health and well-being. Here, the authors characterize self-reported impact of the pandemic (positive and negative) at a large scale in the United Kingdom, and show variance among individual circumstances.

Survey data collected across ten low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) in Asia, Africa and South America compared with surveys from Russia and the United States reveal heterogeneity in vaccine confidence in LMICs, with healthcare providers being trusted sources of information, as well as greater levels of vaccine acceptance in these countries than in Russia and the United States.

The "Iron Lady" of Paris was ordered shut in October as France battled its second virus surge of the pandemic. It opened to the public Friday with "Welcome" messages flashing in multiple languages.

A new study unpacks the complexities of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and acceptance across low-, middle- and high-income countries.

Low vaccination coverage in parts of the U.S. is putting people at risk, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned.

De Salazar et al. quantify the impact of BNT162b2 mRNA vaccination on COVID-19 transmission and deaths in residents of long-term care facilities in Catalonia, Spain using statistical modelling. They find that high vaccination coverage results in a substantial reduction in transmission amongst residents, preventing around 3 in 4 documented infections and COVID-19-related deaths.

“If we continue to have large swaths of the population unvaccinated, we are giving this virus a great opportunity to evolve,” Anne Rimoin, an infectious diseases expert, said.

California leased hotel rooms for unhoused residents during the pandemic to move them out of crowded shelters. Then it bought some of those hotels to create long-term homes for them.

Reversing a months-long downward trend, deaths from COVID-19 have begun rising steadily this week. More than 99% of the recent fatalities were among people who had not been vaccinated.

With the highly contagious delta variant spreading rapidly across the country, cases in the U.S. are up about 70% over the last week, hospital admissions are up about 36% and deaths rose by 26%, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Public health chiefs warn of ‘extraordinary surge’ as less than half the US population fully vaccinated

International experts say ‘unethical experiment’ could allow vaccine-resistant variants to develop

Bills in several statehouses seek to block employers from demanding Covid-19 immunization, even though few do

Messenger RNA vaccines against COVID-19 were not detected in human milk, according to a small study by UCSF, providing early evidence that the vaccine mRNA is not transferred to the infant.

ESPN host and analyst Jay Williams won't broadcast the remaining games of the NBA Finals because he has tested positive for coronavirus.

Stillwater was bustling with people all day, even though the long-running community festival was canceled again this year.

Though quantity of coronavirus-targeting proteins does not directly correlate to level of immunity, findings may suggest ‘substantial differences in vaccine effectiveness’.