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When I was vaccinated against Covid-19, I felt a deep sense of relief: no more worries about personally catching the disease. So when I noticed mild, Covid-19-like symptoms two months …
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Less than a year and a half ago, the world was blissfully, dangerously ignorant of the existence of a coronavirus that would soon turn life on earth on its head. …
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Nursing homes and hospice care are supposed to provide safe refuges for older people and those near the ends of their lives. During the Covid-19 pandemic, they have been just …
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As the U.S. approaches 600,000 deaths from Covid-19, it is hard to fathom that this calamity pales in comparison to America’s worst outbreak of epidemic diseases during and just after …
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The pandemic has shined a spotlight on the biopharmaceutical industry, proving its value through the speed of vaccine development to a society that ranked it even lower in its esteem …
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With Covid-19 vaccines, the world hopes to beat back the virus that causes the disease. But some scientists are increasingly concerned that, because of a quirk of our own biology, …
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How do you describe a one-in-a-million risk? What’s heparin-induced thrombocytopenia? And why’s it so hard to find drugs for Covid-19? We cover all that and more this week on “The …
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Merck said Thursday that it has seen “encouraging” results in a clinical trial of an antiviral pill to treat Covid-19 early in the disease’s course, but the pill failed to …
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Covid-19 vaccines are great tools for combating the pandemic, and are becoming widely available in the U.S. Mass vaccination will help us to return to somewhat normalcy in the not-so-distant …
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