While many Americans say they’re over COVID-19, the virus doesn’t seem to have taken the hint. Instead, it’s been spinning off new variants and subvariants at a furious pace and continuing to infect hundreds of thousands of people every...
For the last 18 months, the original COVID-19 vaccines — first as a two-dose series, then as boosters — have done an extraordinary job shielding us from illness, hospitalization and death. Globally, they saved nearly 20 million lives in...
If you’re anything like the majority of Americans — an estimated 60-plus-percent of them, according to government data — you’ve already had COVID-19.And if you’re like most of those Americans, you had it fairly recently — during the enormous...
For more than a year now, the original COVID-19 vaccines have held up remarkably well — even miraculously so — against a Greek alphabet of new variants: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta.But now experts say something is changing. Since the...
What the heck is happening with COVID right now?Amid the chaos and controversy that followed a federal judge’s decision to strike down the U.S. mask mandate for travel earlier this week — a decision the Department of Justice is...
U.S. COVID cases are rising once again — and, as ever, Americans are arguing about masks.It’s a pattern as enduring as the pandemic itself. Infections go up. So do the masks. And the same reflexive Twitter wars — do...
Is America about to dodge the BA.2 bullet?For weeks now, BA.2 — an even more transmissible subvariant of BA.1, the original, hypercontagious Omicron strain — has been wreaking havoc across Europe, triggering steep and sudden resurgences of infection just...
Is BA.2 about to surge in America the way it’s surging in Europe?There are already some clues that it might not — and the coming days could provide even more reason for cautious optimism.Across the pond, the BA.2 subvariant...
China is by far the world’s biggest COVID powder keg — and it might be on the verge of exploding.Not since the earliest days of the pandemic has the most populous country on the planet ever reported more than...
While many Americans have decided the pandemic is “over” as it pertains to their own lives — a full 37 percent, according to the latest Yahoo News/YouGov poll — those who’ve been paying close attention to the latest COVID-19...
