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Science
When Will Kids under Five Get COVID Vaccines? and Other Questions
Nearly a year and a half since COVID vaccines were first authorized for emergency use in adults, the shots remain…
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Health
Don’t Worry About Vaccines Faltering Against Severe COVID—Yet
For the past year and a half, since the COVID-19 vaccines first became available—even as last summer’s reprieve gave way…
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Science
This Gene Mutation Breaks the Immune System. Why Has It Survived?
In Greenland in January 2021, a child just under two years old was sick—very sick. And his doctors couldn’t figure…
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Health
The U.S. Is About to Make a Big Gamble on Our Next COVID Winter
Up here in the Northern Hemisphere, the spring weather’s just barely warming, but regulators in the United States are already…
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Science
Bill Gates Is So Over This Pandemic
We no longer have a supply problem with vaccines. The only question left is, are you limited by demand or…
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Science
Ticks Are Spreading in the US—and Taking New Diseases With Them
“Tick-borne diseases are the most important vector-borne disease in the continental US when you tally the amount of disease transmitted…
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Health
America Created Its Own Booster Problems
By this point in the pandemic, the benefits of boosters seem pretty darn clear. Boosters continue the immune system’s education…
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UK
Thursday evening UK news briefing: Britain needs our Covid vaccines, Ursula von der Leyen tells EU leaders
Meanwhile, Matt Hancock has admitted he cannot guarantee the Covid legislation approved by MPs today will be retired in six months.…
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UK
We may need vaccine passports as an incentive for the young to do right by the herd
The government has promised an “irreversible” reopening of society by June 21 but the modelling shows that is contingent, not…
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UK
India block on jab exports ‘to hit Covax deliveries to world’s poorest’
“Covax is in talks with the Government of India with a view to ensuring deliveries as quickly as possible,” the…
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