COVID-19 variants are to be known by letters of the Greek alphabet to avoid stigmatizing nations where they were first detected, the World Health Organization announced Monday.
May 31, 2021
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White people are more likely to have been vaccinated than Black people despite similar levels of vaccine hesitancy, or saying they are very unlikely to get a vaccine. Therefore, access to vaccines and other factors could ...
May 19, 2021
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According to the latest projections out by the CDC, the United States may see a sharp decline by July in COVID-19 cases—that is, if vaccinations continue and people wear masks where appropriate and adhere to social distancing.
May 7, 2021
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A team of researchers at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine has found more evidence of cognitive dysfunction in many "long haul," non-hospitalized COVID-19 patients. In their paper published in the journal ...
A team of researchers from King's College London and Monash University has created a database of information that relates COVID-19 and type II diabetes. The team has created the database for two reasons—the first is that ...
A new SFU-led study finds that about half of media stories in early 2020 featuring COVID-19 "preprint" research—research that has not yet been peer-reviewed—accurately framed the studies as being preprints or unverified ...
Jan 6, 2021
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In late March and early April, President Trump repeatedly proclaimed that hydroxychloroquine could prevent or treat COVID-19. Within days, the number of prescriptions for the drug skyrocketed even though evidence it could ...
Jul 9, 2020
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A team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions in China and one in the U.S. has found evidence of a new strain of swine flu that poses a possible threat to humans. In their paper published in Proceedings of ...
Tribalism has become a signature of America within and without since the election of President Trump. The nation has parted ways with international allies, left the rest of the world in their effort to fight the climate change, ...
Jun 2, 2020
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As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect nearly every aspect of life, it can be difficult to avoid being overwhelmed by everything from work and school closures to supply chain issues to near-constant media coverage.
May 4, 2020
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