Politics is derailing a crucial debate over the immunity you get from recovering from Covid-19
WASHINGTON — Among scientists, there’s little debate: People who get sick with Covid-19 develop at…
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‘Make a gesture of humanity’: Pope Francis urges drug makers to release Covid-19 vaccine patents
Amid controversy over global access to Covid-19 vaccines, Pope Francis lent his moral authority to…
Opinion: On Covid-19 booster shots, the FDA has overstepped its role
Booster shots for all adults six months after being vaccinated against Covid-19 are safe, effective,…
Opinion: Rebuilding the nation’s health care workforce during and after Covid-19: Lessons from disaster management
As an emergency medicine physician and director of emergency management, I have taken part in…
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Opinion: Feeling guilty about getting a booster shot? Here’s something you can do
The same week that Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and…
Three lessons for the effort to scale up Covid-19 rapid tests
In Ann Arbor, Mich., as in many other cities across the country, you’d be hard-pressed…
Follow the FDA advisory panel meeting on the J&J Covid vaccine booster
The booster-shot question that has been on the top of many minds for many months…
Listen: The FDA star search, more booster debates, & the future of mRNA
Are we any closer to getting a permanent FDA boss? How many Covid-19 vaccinations does…
FDA advisory panel unanimously endorses Moderna’s Covid vaccine booster for some groups
A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted unanimously Thursday in favor of authorizing booster…
Tracking the FDA advisory panel meeting on Moderna’s Covid vaccine booster
With people who received the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine already in the process of getting booster…
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Watch: Merck’s Covid pill could transform treatment. Here’s how it works
Earlier this month, study results showed that molnupiravir, Merck’s investigational antiviral pill, cut hospitalization rates…
FDA scientists neutral on Moderna Covid-19 vaccine booster ahead of key meeting
Food and Drug Administration scientists did not take a clear position as to whether the…
A primer on what we know about mixing and matching Covid vaccines
Later this week an expert committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
‘Naively ambitious’: How COVAX failed on its promise to vaccinate the world
Around the world this spring, country after country awaited their first Covid-19 vaccine shipments. They’d…
CDC director defends decision to overrule expert panel on Covid booster shots for health and other front-line workers
Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on Thursday defended herself…
Listen: Shkreli on film, the next NIH director, and a looming FDA deadline
Did we learn anything from the Martin Shkreli saga? Who will run the NIH? And…
‘Reaching a detente’ with SARS-CoV-2: Helen Branswell on covering Covid-19, misinformation and more
On Wednesday, STAT senior writer Helen Branswell spoke with Seth Mnookin, director of the MIT…
Biden moves to ramp up at-home Covid-19 testing
The White House announced on Wednesday a $1 billion purchase of at-home rapid tests for…
The stages of pandemic emotion: from horror to hope to rage — and now, an anxious optimism
The first days of summer this year saw Americans jubilant, as Covid-19 cases plummeted across…
STAT+: STAT+ Conversation: Making health care accountable
Editor’s note: A livestream of the conversation will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET….
Opinion: Why U.S. pandemic management has failed: lack of attention to America’s epidemic engines
Few U.S. journalists, politicians, or public health officials expressed any extraordinary concern when reports of…
At a rural ICU, Covid-19’s summer surge put telehealth to the test
On the surface, there’s little about Whitfield Regional Hospital that would make it a safety…
What we know — and don’t know — about Merck’s new Covid-19 pill
The announcement that a pill from Merck and partner Ridgeback Biotherapeutics kept Covid patients out…
Merck’s antiviral pill reduces hospitalization of Covid patients, a possible game-changer for treatment
An investigational antiviral pill reduced the chances that patients newly diagnosed with Covid-19 would be…
Listen: Health equity ‘tourism,’ an $11B biopharma acquisition, & a bony Covid protest
An $11 billion biopharma acquisition. Health equity “tourism.” And, where can you buy a 12-foot…
A new study points to the power of wearables to predict even presymptomatic infections, suggesting use one day against Covid-19
A new study that infected willing participants with common cold and flu viruses provides the…
The government’s Covid-19 response will continue in a shutdown, but health agencies will face major staff shortages
A version of this story first appeared in D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s weekly newsletter about the…
Side effect rates from a third Covid-19 vaccine dose similar to those after second shot, early data indicate
People who’ve received a third dose of a Covid-19 vaccine are reporting rates of side…
The Biden administration wants scientific advisers. It just doesn’t like what they have to say
Over the past month, the United States public has received a booster dose of confusion….
Opinion: I fear Covid-19 is pushing young physicians out of medicine
During more than 30 years as a physician and an officer in the U.S. Air…
Biden’s chaotic messaging on Covid-19 boosters is pitting the White House against the government’s scientific advisers
WASHINGTON — The White House’s chaotic, contradictory messaging on Covid-19 vaccine booster shots has given…
Scott Gottlieb on Covid, a better CDC, and how he does it all
Former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb can now add published author to his long list of…
See how much Covid-19 relief money health care providers in your state got
Congress set up a massive, $178 billion fund in 2020 meant to help mitigate the…
Advisory committee recommends wide swath of Americans be offered Covid-19 vaccine boosters
A vaccine advisory panel voted Thursday to recommend that a wide swath of Americans should…
Listen: Scott Gottlieb on the next pandemic, another Covid winter, & Aduhelm’s slow rollout
What does Covid-19 have in store for this winter? Is Aduhelm a commercial dud? And…
FDA authorizes Pfizer’s Covid-19 booster for people over 65 or at high risk
The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday granted an emergency use authorization to Pfizer and…
Opinion: Biden’s global summit Covid-19 targets are woefully inadequate and must be corrected
As part of President Biden’s plan to address the global Covid-19 pandemic and inequitable distribution…
Remdesivir reduces Covid hospitalizations when given early, study shows
Gilead’s Covid-19 drug remdesivir appeared to reduce hospitalizations by 87% in high-risk patients diagnosed early…
Opinion: Do we need vaccine exemption boards?
When I was a senior in college, the U.S. government tried to draft me —…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: J&J says its Covid-19 shot is more effective in two doses; India plans to resume Covid-19 vaccine exports
Top of the morning to you, and a fine one it is. Sunny skies and…
Johnson & Johnson says additional dose boosts Covid vaccine efficacy
Johnson & Johnson said Tuesday that a large, global study showed its Covid-19 vaccine is…
Opinion: Data from routine Covid testing can help schools stay open this year
With recent spikes in Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations across the country — including in children…
Opinion: Virtual medical school: Burnout and a path forward
We started medical school at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons in August…
‘Delta has been brutal’: Covid-19 variant is decimating rural areas already reeling from the pandemic
Health inequities in rural communities across the South are continuing to determine who is most…
A hospital, and a family, lost during the pandemic
DAWSON, Ga. — When the days feel too hard, Latasha Taylor finds peace standing…
A community pioneer lost, and remembered
BELLE GLADE, Fla. — It was the first day of the new year when Angela…
The land as medicine
HALE COUNTY, Ala. — Small, cramped trailer homes and old farmhouses can be glimpsed…
The Guardian of the Glades
PAHOKEE, Fla. — The semitruck carrying all of the food was late. Tammy Jackson-Moore…
DISTANCED: Pandemic stories of Black life in the rural South
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Covid-19 set to overtake 1918 Spanish flu as deadliest disease in American history
The Covid-19 pandemic is about to become the deadliest disease event in American history, with…