Vaccines are meant to help, not harm. So you can imagine our surprise when we first heard of the intriguing term gaining popularity among the anti-vaccine crowd: turbo-cancer.
COVID vaccine
While Americans increasingly shed masks, forgo COVID-19 boosters, and embrace post-pandemic normalcy, a viral specter is spreading across Asia — and it’s beginning to show up in the U.S.
Like tens of thousands of Americans baking in the summer heat, last week President Biden was convalescing at home, waiting for the COVID symptoms to pass.
From the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers have been engaged in forecasting the potential economic and human costs associated with an uncontrolled large-scale pandemic, as well as the corresponding benefits that could be derived from an
We spoke at length about the public's eroded trust in public health “institutions” due to their actions and inactions -- perceived and real -- during the pandemic.
The Wall Street Journal published a news article on January 5, “Why It Feels Like Everyone You Know Is Getting COVID-19,” which contained several worrisome observations.
Our conversation begins with the emergence of sub-variant of Omicron EG.5 and its impact, particularly in large cities like Manhattan.
Here we go again — another armchair expert holding forth on scientific and medical issues she misunderstands.
Over the past several years, the medical community has learned, to its dismay, that we can experience a “twin-demic” of winter infectious diseases – simultaneous COVID-19 and flu outbreaks resulting in intense stresses on healthcare delivery.
We have learned a lot about the SARS-CoV-2 virus during the three years of the COVID-19 pandemic. For example, new viral variants, such as the many subtypes of Omicron, are less susceptible to the vaccines developed to protect against th