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As the world is slowly trying to get back up on its feet, organizers are scrambling to assure that the Olympic Games in Tokyo go ahead as planned without becoming a super-spreader event. One of the key elements to successful games remains the participation and hard work of volunteers. The…

Brazil’s COVID-19 response efforts have largely failed to implement quick, coordinated, and equitable responses. The uneven spread of disease across the population and the extensive politicization of the pandemic has led to an unavoidable humanitarian crisis. Unfortunately, Brazil’s universal and…

Even though the children’s risk of dying from the remains low in the United States, the percentage of children getting infected has been increasing. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, 1 in 5 cases detected across the country during the second week of April were reported in children.…

Whether employers are able to require vaccination from their employees is a polarizing matter among both front-line healthcare workers and those expecting to return back to in-person work.  According to the Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll, nearly 4 in 10 healthcare workers said they…

Almost 130 million Americans, 18 or older, have received at least one dose of the vaccine. As the states are grappling to distribute the vaccines in an efficient and timely manner, there have been extensive maneuver made to undermine the efforts to end the pandemic. Multiple listings on eBay offer…

A new vaccine for COVID-19, NDV-HXP-S is entering clinical trials in Brazil, Mexico, Thailand, and Vietnam and could potentially change how the world fights the pandemic. It is widely expected to be easier to make and create more potent antibodies than the current generation of vaccines. The new…

Two ingredients in the COVID-19 vaccines, polyethylene glycol and polysorbate 80 have been suggested as possible culprits in anaphylactic reactions. Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna use polyethylene glycol in their vaccines as a protective coating for messenger RNA. Polysorbate 80 is ubiquitous in a…

Since the onset of the pandemic, it has been widely reported that men got hit harder by coronavirus than women did. Men have almost three times the odds of requiring intensive-care treatment for COVID-19 than women and 1.4 times the odds of dying from the disease. However, women may have a harder…

As researchers dive into resolving the mystery of lingering COVID-19 symptoms, more and more people suffering from long-haul COVID-19 are reporting significant improvements after receiving vaccinations. If long-haulers are suffering from immune systems that went awry and never reset, why would…

Dr. Avindra Nath at the National Institutes of Health spends his days surrounded by brains, hoping to shed light on why some people can't seem to recover. An estimated 10 to 30 percent of the 28 million COVID-19 cases in the United States could lead to long-term symptoms. The 30 brain samples in…

In March 2020, Shelli Farhadian, MD, Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine, infectious diseases, and neurology began to see parallels in her pre-pandemic research on neurological effects in patients with HIV infections, prompting her to think about the potential effects that COVID-19 could have on…

As Brazil is continuing to face a brutal coronavirus outbreak, preliminary studies suggest that the Brazilian coronavirus variant is reinfecting people who have already had the virus. The situation is worsened by the fact that Brazil has been unable to secure a large enough number of doses.…

As the coronavirus pandemic is slowly nearing an end, as many as 8.4 million people who have recovered from COVID-19 fall into the category commonly known as “long-haulers.” Despite the overwhelming number of patients struggling to bounce back to their former selves, there are currently no concrete…

The spread of coronavirus is undoubtedly intertwined with the spread of speculation around its origins. In the face of ambiguity and great uncertainty, the world turned to college professors with no evidence or training in virology and anonymous social media users, posing as high-level intelligence…