STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: NIH launching ‘flurry’ of Covid-19 treatment trials; Pfizer-BioNTech deal sets ceiling for vaccine price
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Category: infectious disease
Actual Covid-19 case count could be 6 to 24 times higher than official estimates, CDC study shows
The true number of coronavirus cases in the U.S. could be anywhere from six to…
Opinion: Chronic fatigue syndrome may hold keys to understanding post-Covid syndrome
Some survivors of acute bouts of Covid-19 experience a range of persistent medical issues —…
Civil War vaccination kits, discovered in a drawer, yield genetic clues to how smallpox was defeated
As the world anxiously pins its hopes on vaccines to halt the coronavirus pandemic, scientists…
A silver lining to the pandemic response? Doctors hope to see fewer cases of a polio-like condition that affects children
If the pattern from recent history holds, starting next month, doctors in the U.S. will…
Opinion: Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children related to Covid-19 isn’t the mystery it’s made out to be
As a physician taking care of hospitalized Covid-19 patients, I had very nearly become immune…
In another Covid-19 disparity, Black and Hispanic Americans are dying at younger ages than white Americans
Long after calls for more data on the disproportionate number of Covid-19 infections and deaths…
Opinion: Hospitals must treat infection control as a priority, not a profit center
For years, hospitals penny-pinching on infection control has been an open secret. Whether Covid-19 will…
U.S. withdrawal from WHO threatens to leave it ‘flying blind’ on flu vaccines
Twice a year, influenza experts from 10 institutions around the world meet at the World…
Watch: From nose to toe, the Covid-19 virus attacks like no other ‘respiratory’ infection
The reports seemed to take doctors by surprise: The “respiratory” virus that causes Covid-19 made…
Opinion: Human challenge trials with live coronavirus aren’t the answer to a Covid-19 vaccine
More than 25,000 people have volunteered so far to be infected with the novel coronavirus…
Opinion: Lack of rapid diagnostic tools contributes to Covid-19 deaths
SARS-CoV-2, a coronavirus that humans have never before encountered, is causing hundreds of thousands of…
Second deadliest Ebola outbreak on record is days from being declared over
It hasn’t been the longest, nor has it been the deadliest. But the Ebola outbreak…
Opinion: Cough and pneumonia in the time of coronavirus
Standing in line outside a grocery store in Seattle, almost at the front, the requisite…
‘Flying blind’: Doctors race to understand what Covid-19 means for people with HIV
Larry Pike has already survived one pandemic. The 76-year-old Seattle retiree has been living with…
Opinion: A national registry could help defeat sepsis, a big contributor to Covid-19 deaths
As doctors and paramedics who treat the victims of the Covid-19 pandemic, we have seen…
How the world can avoid screwing up the response to Covid-19 again
Even as Americans fight (and even kill) over the country’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic,…
Contact tracing could help avoid another lockdown. Can it work in the U.S.?
To contain the spread of Covid-19, Alaska is planning to triple its number of contact…
Opinion: He was a ‘force of nature’: Anthony Fauci, Tom Frieden, and others remember Larry Kramer
“AIDS changed everything,” Larry Kramer once said. So he made it his life’s work to…
When hard data are ‘heartbreaking’: Testing blitz in San Francisco shows Covid-19 struck mostly low-wage workers
Early in the coronavirus outbreak, as the first infected patients trickled into Zuckerberg San Francisco…
‘Forced to retract completely into ourselves,’ a mother and son confront cancer in the age of Covid-19
Amy Sapien had prepared for her April 13 surgery as best she could. She dyed…
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Opinion: When bubonic plague hit France in 1720, officials dithered. Sound familiar?
On May 25, 1720, a ship named the Grand Saint-Antoine arrived in the port of…
‘It’s something I have never seen’: How the Covid-19 virus hijacks cells
A deep dive into how the new coronavirus infects cells has found that it orchestrates…
Opinion: If J&J really wants to support nurses, it should make the TB drug bedaquiline affordable
As nurses who worked in 5B, the first U.S. hospital ward dedicated HIV/AIDS, which opened…
Life as a Covid-19 contact tracer: sleuthing, stress, and veering off-script
All Maddie Bender knew when she called the New Haven, Conn., family was that a…
With little data, doctors struggle to decide which Covid-19 patients should get remdesivir
Now that the federal government has begun distributing the experimental Covid-19 drug remdesivir, hospitals are…
7 questions about Covid-19 testing and what it means for reopening the country
Pressure to perform widespread Covid-19 testing is growing as public health experts and ordinary citizens…
What the world learned in eradicating smallpox: Unity mattered
Forty years ago, the world celebrated the vanquishing of a formidable foe, smallpox, which had…
The porn industry tests and traces. Could it offer a model for reopening amid Covid-19?
LOS ANGELES — As states and employers furiously develop plans to safely reopen workplaces in…
Watch: Antibodies, immunity, and what they mean for Covid-19, explained
The immune system is no wimp. When pathogens cause illness, it kicks into high gear….
Three potential futures for Covid-19: recurring small outbreaks, a monster wave, or a persistent crisis
As epidemiologists attempt to scope out what Covid-19 has in store for the U.S. this…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: U.S. plans ‘Operation Warp Speed’ for a Covid-19 vaccine; Gilead vows remdesivir will be accessible
Top of the morning to you. Despite some gloomy skies and a spot of rain,…
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative funds Bay Area effort to track coronavirus as the economy reopens
A new research initiative backed by pediatrician Priscilla Chan and her husband, Facebook founder Mark…
Closely watched arthritis drug disappoints as a Covid-19 treatment, studies show
An arthritis drug that was seen as a promising treatment for some Covid-19 patients delivered…
Many states are far short of Covid-19 testing levels needed for safe reopening, new analysis shows
More than half of U.S. states will have to significantly step up their Covid-19 testing…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: Former BARDA chief charges Trump politicizes science; India may suspend TB drug exports
Hello, everyone, and how are you today? We are doing reasonably well so far, thank…
For respiratory therapists on Covid-19 wards, a catheter shortage increases work — and risk
This is one in a series of reports from hospitals responding to the Covid-19 pandemic….
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New analysis recommends less reliance on ventilators to treat coronavirus patients
By using ventilators more sparingly on Covid-19 patients, physicians could reduce the more-than-50% death rate…
He ran marathons and was fit. So why did Covid-19 almost kill him?
A week after testing positive for Covid-19, Joshua Fiske drove himself to a New Jersey…
The months of magical thinking: As the coronavirus swept over China, some experts were in denial
The response to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States and other countries has been…
New study seeks to surface data to produce a stronger measles vaccine
As a viral infection that starts in the respiratory system, measles, like the virus that…
Influential Covid-19 model uses flawed methods and shouldn’t guide U.S. policies, critics say
A widely followed model for projecting Covid-19 deaths in the U.S. is producing results that…
Covid-19 testing issues could sink plans to re-open the country. Might CT scans help?
To safely relax the chokehold that policies to control Covid-19 have on the economy, most…
Simply speaking could transmit coronavirus, new study suggests
Speaking calmly and at a normal volume produces liquid droplets so small they can remain…
How much of the coronavirus does it take to make you sick? The science, explained
Infectious respiratory diseases spread when a healthy person comes in contact with virus particles expelled…
Why a decades-old TB vaccine is getting attention in the fight against Covid-19
In the desperate search for ammunition to fend off the Covid-19 pandemic, a decades-old tuberculosis…
Who gets the last ventilator? Facing the coronavirus, a hospital ponders the unthinkable
This is one in a series of reports from hospitals responding to the Covid-19 pandemic….
U.S. is ‘less safe’ from coronavirus when CDC goes quiet, former director says
The United States is “less safe” from the coronavirus when the Centers for Disease Control…
Help wanted: Health agencies will need an army of coronavirus trackers
K.J. Seung is surprised to be hiring and training new workers in Boston. His public…
New Ebola case dashes hopes that the 2-year-old DRC outbreak was over
The long-running Ebola outbreak in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has encountered another setback,…