People in Republican-voting states more likely to report Covid-19 vaccine side effects, study says
People in Republican-voting states were more likely to report adverse events after receiving a Covid-19…
Category: COVID-19
Covid’s scientific silver lining: A chance to watch the human immune system respond in real time
While an increasingly anxious world watched a new coronavirus spread across the globe in early…
Covid-19: Pfizer vaccine to be available privately at pharmacy chain Boots from April
High street pharmacy chain Boots will start providing a private covid-19 vaccine service in England…
Global leaders call for negotiators to push through pandemic accord ahead of May deadline
More than 100 world leaders have come together to push negotiators to finalise a global…
STAT+: During the pandemic, were great vaccines bad business? A company-by-company review
It’s been four years since Covid-19 emerged, igniting a pandemic that killed millions of people…
Covid inquiry: What we have learnt about Wales’s response?
Covid was not initially a top priorityBefore 20 March 2020 there had been an assumption…
Opinion: STAT readers on new CDC Covid guidelines, weight loss drugs and mental health, and new psychiatric meds
STAT now publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to First Opinion essays…
Opinion: The CDC’s new, relaxed Covid isolation guidance makes perfect sense
What makes for good public health guidance? That’s the conversation I was having with a…
FDA advisory panel recommends a streamlined flu vaccine for next fall
When Americans line up for flu vaccines next fall, they will almost certainly be getting…
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STAT+: WTO proposal for Covid diagnostics and therapeutics waiver is abandoned
After 18 months of debate, the World Trade Organization failed to adopt a controversial proposal…
Covid-19 increases risk of developing autoimmune disease, but vaccination helps, large study shows
Having Covid-19 increases a person’s risk of developing an autoimmune disease in the year after…
CDC eases isolation guidance for Covid and other respiratory illnesses
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is “sunsetting” its advice that people sick with…
UK workers during the pandemic: inadequate protection and, consequently, increased risk
There are striking similarities, as well as differences, between the shortcomings in protection and consequent…
Covid-19 taskforce called for a new national vaccine agency to prepare for future pandemics
The UK needs a permanent ecosystem for rapidly developing, manufacturing, and supplying vaccines for future…
Covid-19 taskforce called for a new national vaccine agency to prepare for future pandemics
The UK needs a permanent ecosystem for rapidly developing, manufacturing, and supplying vaccines for future…
‘Brain fog’ is one of Covid-19’s most daunting symptoms. A new study measures its impact
Of all the lingering symptoms of long Covid, difficulty focusing and thinking, known as brain…
CDC advisory panel says people 65 and older should get a Covid spring booster shot
An expert panel advising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccines on Wednesday…
Covid-19: Two rare vaccine side effects detected in large global study
The largest vaccine safety study to date has identified two new, but very rare, side…
STAT+: Novavax and Gavi end a bitter dispute over Covid-19 vaccines with a refund up to $400 million
After a contentious dispute, Novavax has agreed to refund up to $400 million to the…
Long covid: Online rehabilitation can improve quality of life, study reports
A group online rehabilitation programme including gentle exercise and mental health support can improve quality…
Can exercise help treat long Covid? New study finds patients improve with self-paced approach
Fatigue leads the list of persistent problems experienced by people with long Covid — which…
FDA urged to move faster to fix pulse oximeters for darker-skinned patients
The Food and Drug Administration should move more quickly to ensure pulse oximeters — the…
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Updated Covid vaccine has 54% effectiveness, new data suggest
New data released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest that the…
STAT+: WTO appears close to rejecting a proposed waiver on patents for Covid diagnostics and therapies
After more than a year of deliberation, the World Trade Organization appears close to rejecting…
Opinion: The Biden administration should not support a WTO petition to strip IP protections from Covid-19 treatments
The Biden administration may soon double down on one of its gravest mistakes. In 2022,…
Life expectancy fell during pandemic across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland
Life expectancy fell during 2020 to 2022 across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, largely because…
Two genomics powerhouses team up to expand infectious disease surveillance
LONDON — Two research centers that have been at the forefront of following the evolution…
New chronic Covid study offers insight into which immunocompromised patients are most at risk
You’ve heard of long Covid, a condition in which the acute infection subsides but troubling…
Why many more people are lining up for a flu shot than a Covid vaccine
America is over the Covid vaccine. Frantic lineups for scarce doses when Covid vaccines first…
STAT+: The FDA’s diagnostics chief, who led through Covid, has retired
Timothy Stenzel, the federal regulator who led the Food and Drug Administration’s diagnostics division during…
Could long Covid’s signs of immune dysregulation in the blood lead to a diagnostic test?
Long Covid has long eluded scientists looking for its cause. Not knowing what triggers its…
SARS-CoV-2 positivity in offspring and timing of mother-to-child transmission: living systematic review and meta-analysis
AbstractObjectivesTo assess the rates of SARS-CoV-2 positivity in babies born to mothers with SARS-CoV-2 infection,…
Covid-19: Some US states and hospitals recommend masks again
US hospitals and medical centres in some US states have reintroduced requirements to wear facemasks…
Opinion: Buprenorphine, autism diagnoses, and long Covid: the most-read First Opinion essays of 2023
In a year of abortion restrictions, biotech industry upheaval, and revolutionary drug approvals, First Opinion…
We wish we’d written that: STAT staffers share their favorite stories of 2023
It’s time to take stock of the year that was in health and science: the…
STAT stories you might have missed in 2023
There’s an old story in journalism, and it goes like this: A reporter is asked,…
3 issues to watch in global health in 2024
As we enter the fifth year of this challenging decade, life finally appears to be…
Covid-19: Bereaved families group collects BMJ award for holding ministers to account
A group representing families bereaved by the covid-19 pandemic has received an award from The…
Chronic fatigue syndrome estimated to affect 3.3 million in U.S., more than previously thought: CDC
Health officials on Friday released the first nationally representative estimate of how many U.S. adults…
Covid inquiry: Hancock is grilled on care homes, lockdowns, and testing
Matt Hancock, the UK health secretary between 2018 and June 2021, acknowledged major deficiencies in…
STAT+: Texas AG accuses Pfizer of ‘intentionally’ overstating Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness
The Texas attorney general has filed a lawsuit accusing Pfizer of “unlawfully” and “intentionally” misrepresenting…
U.S. life expectancy rose in 2022, but it remains below its pre-pandemic level
NEW YORK — U.S. life expectancy rose last year — by more than a year…
“We weren’t that great at treating flu—it should not be our model for covid”: America’s covid-19 tsar speaks
Taking office in November 2021, US President Joe Biden was immediately confronted by the chaotic…
Covid inquiry: The week that science became both bamboozling and a millstone
PM was bamboozled and confused over sciencePatrick Vallance, the UK government’s chief scientific adviser (CSA)…
Pandemic-related immunity gap in kids explains surge of respiratory infections in children in China, says WHO
Reports this week that China is experiencing a surge in respiratory infections in young children…
Does timely vaccination help prevent post-viral conditions?
Vaccines substantially mitigated the impacts of the covid-19 pandemic worldwide, saving millions of lives. The…
Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness against post-covid-19 condition among 589 722 individuals in Sweden: population based cohort study
AbstractObjectiveTo investigate the effectiveness of primary covid-19 vaccination (first two doses and first booster dose…
Respiratory viruses, thrown out of whack by Covid, appear to be falling back into seasonal order
In the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic, something strange happened: For a year or two,…
Study suggests Covid rebound is far more common with Paxlovid than without
A small and preliminary study published Monday seems to indicate that patients receiving the drug…
Covid inquiry: What we learnt this week
Chickenpox was not a helpful analogueGiving evidence on 8 November,1 Mark Sedwill, the former cabinet…