Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

As tough COVID summer ends, experts warn of a tougher fall, winter

In a sobering illustration of the toll the coronavirus pandemic took this summer, tallies now show the number of Americans who have died of COVID-19 jumped from just under 100,000 to over 186,000 between Memorial Day and ...

Vaccination

Q&A: Will a coronavirus vaccine be a cure-all?

Global health authorities are frantically pursuing a vaccine against the novel coronavirus in the hope that it will allow everyone to get back to a pre-COVID-19 reality ASAP. Thomas O'Rourke, a professor emeritus of community ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Toward a national response to the COVID catastrophe

We all know that the U.S. has done a horrible job responding to COVID-19. The impact of the virus on Americans is way out of proportion to the size of our population. There are about 7.5 billion people on the planet and only ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

'Too many are selfish': US nears 5 million virus cases

Fourth of July gatherings, graduation parties, no-mask weddings, crowded bars—there are reasons the U.S. has racked up more than 155,000 coronavirus deaths, by far the most of any country, and is fast approaching an off-the-charts ...

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