Month: March 2022

The world may have undercounted Covid-19 deaths by a staggering margin, according to an analysis released Thursday by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation “How the world missed more than half of all Covid-19 deaths”

There’s a scene in The West Wing’s second season in which one of the protagonists is told a Chinese satellite is falling to Earth, but “The falling Chinese space rocket is a policy failure”

While here in the US some are tentatively removing their masks and resuming small outdoor gatherings, others around the world are searching for air. In “Why India needs oxygen more urgently than vaccines”

White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci said he will not go into restaurants or movie theaters, even though he’s vaccinated. The Centers for Disease “Got the vaccine? Experts say you can relax about your Covid-19 risk now. Really.”

Now that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has said that people who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 can shed their masks, there “Vaccine passports can liberate America”

Every year, malaria kills more than 400,000 people, most of them children. There has been significant progress against the disease in the past few decades “Why the WHO approval of the first malaria vaccine is a big deal”

Before 2010, scientists knew very little about how the sensation of touch begins its journey into a person’s consciousness. They knew that nerve endings help “Our amazing sense of touch, explained by a Nobel laureate”

Kids are back in school. The federal government seems to be on the verge of approving vaccines for younger children. And as more adults are “How the risk of Covid-19 for kids compares to other dangers”

It’s become a time-honored tradition in certain segments of American society: two families cross-reference their respective calendars to find a spot free of school or “Playdates are ruining all the fun”

SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, has made our future vulnerability to biological pathogens — and what we can learn to help prevent the next “How biological detective work can reveal who engineered a virus”