Tag: Disease Rates
How Often Can You Be Infected With the Coronavirus?
A virus that shows no signs of disappearing, variants that are adept at dodging the body’s defenses, and…
How Australia Saved Thousands of Lives While Covid Killed a Million Americans
MELBOURNE, Australia — If the United States had the same Covid death rate as Australia, about 900,000 lives…
Moderna Vaccine Provokes Strong Immune Response in Children 6 to 11
Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine elicits a strong immune response in children aged 6 to 11, researchers reported on Wednesday…
Death Toll During Pandemic Far Exceeds Totals Reported by Countries, W.H.O. Says
Other experts said that India’s refusal to cooperate with the W.H.O. analysis was rooted in the country’s history…
China’s Covid Lockdowns Stir Memories of a Planned Economy
Yang Wenhui should be a proud example of China’s rise from economic rubble to global powerhouse.Growing up poor,…
Does My Mask Protect Me Against Covid-19 If Others Don’t Wear One?
If I’m the only person wearing a mask on a plane or subway train, in a store or…
Is Covid More Dangerous Than Driving? How Scientists Are Parsing Covid Risks.
Like it or not, the choose-your-own-adventure period of the pandemic is upon us.Mask mandates have fallen. Some free…
India Is Stalling the W.H.O.’s Efforts to Make Global Covid Death Toll Public
An ambitious effort by the World Health Organization to calculate the global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic…
Are There Better Ways to Track Covid Cases?
When the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus arrived in the United States last fall, it pushed…
From the U.S. to China: A 3-Month Quarantine Horror Story
Before boarding his flight from Los Angeles to the Chinese city of Guangzhou, Xue Liangquan, a California-based lawyer,…
A New Covid Mystery
Still, the shortage of testing does not seem to be the only reason that cases have not surged…
C.D.C. Confirms It Will Lift Public Health Order Restricting Immigration
WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Friday that it would lift an emergency…