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updated March 7, 2024 15:00 EST

Earlier

  • 04/22/2015 A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers | BMJ Open

    February 2020

  • 02/26 Seasonality of SARS-CoV-2: Will COVID-19 go away on its own in warmer weather? – Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics
  • 02/27 Preparing for Coronavirus to Strike the U.S. - Scientific American Blog Network

    March 2020

  • 03/17 New coronavirus stable for hours on surfaces | National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • 03/17 We’re not going back to normal | MIT Technology Review
  • 03/26 Genomic Study Points to Natural Origin of COVID-19 – NIH Director's Blog
  • 03/27 News Feature: Avoiding pitfalls in the pursuit of a COVID-19 vaccine | PNAS
  • 03/28 Preliminary Estimates of the Prevalence of Selected Underlying Health Conditions Among Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 — United States, February 12–March 28, 2020 | MMWR - CDC
  • 03/29 More on Chloroquine/Azithromycin. And On Dr. Raoult. | In the Pipeline | Science
  • 03/30 Developing Covid-19 Vaccines at Pandemic Speed | NEJM
  • 03/31 FDA's authorization of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine for COVID-19 looks like political science | BioCentury

    April 2020

  • 04/01 Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study estimates | The BMJ
  • 04/03 How sewage could reveal true scale of coronavirus outbreak | Nature
  • 04/05 Don’t Panic: The comprehensive Ars Technica guide to the coronavirus | Ars Technica
  • 04/07 Models of coronavirus underestimate the epidemic's peak and overestimate its duration | Medical Express
  • 04/08 Report: COVID-19 in schools -- the experience in NSW | NCIRS
  • 04/09 Respiratory Protection During Outbreaks: Respirators versus Surgical Masks | | Blogs | CDC
  • 04/09 Characteristics of Health Care Personnel with COVID-19 — United States, February 12–April 9, 2020 | MMWR (CDC)
  • 04/10 What Immunity to COVID-19 Really Means - Scientific American
  • 04/15 NIH study validates decontamination methods for re-use of N95 respirators | National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • 04/15 COVID-19 may be most contagious one to two days before symptoms appear | Science News
  • 04/16 Model quantifies the impact of quarantine measures on Covid-19’s spread | MIT News
  • 04/17 In Pursuit of PPE | NEJM
  • 04/17 How does coronavirus kill? Clinicians trace a ferocious rampage through the body, from brain to toes | Science | AAAS
  • 04/20 The US needs to do 20 million tests a day to reopen safely, according to a new plan | MIT Technology Review
  • 04/21 Public Health Response to the Initiation and Spread of Pandemic COVID-19 in the United States, February 24 -- April 21, 2020 | MMWR (CDC)
  • 04/21 False Negatives in Quick COVID-19 Test Near 15 Percent: Study | The Scientist Magazine®
  • 04/24 "Immunity passports" in the context of COVID-19 | WHO
  • 04/27 COVID-19 No Worse Than the Flu? Hardly | MedPage Today
  • 04/27 Myocardial Injury Common in COVID-19 | MedPage Today
  • 04/27 Many states short of Covid-19 testing levels needed for reopening - STAT
  • 04/28 Comparing COVID-19 Deaths to Flu Deaths Is like Comparing Apples to Oranges - Scientific American Blog Network
  • 04/28 The race for coronavirus vaccines: a graphical guide | Nature

    May 2020

  • 05/06 Current development of COVID-19 diagnostics, vaccines and therapeutics - ScienceDirect
  • 05/06 Mounting promises on Covid-19 vaccines are fueling false expectations | StatNews
  • 05/07 Timeline of the Coronavirus Pandemic and U.S. Response | Just Security
  • 05/12 Unveiling ‘Warp Speed,’ the White House’s America-first push for a coronavirus vaccine | Science | AAAS
  • 05/12 How Coronavirus Spreads through the Air: What We Know So Far - Scientific American
  • 05/13 The Post-COVID-19 World Will Be Less Global and Less Urban - Knowledge@Wharton
  • 05/13 Could the reproduction number of SARS-CoV-2 be double early estimates? | Harvard Magazine
  • 05/13 The online competition between pro- and anti-vaccination views | Nature
  • 05/13 Scientists are drowning in COVID-19 papers. Can new tools keep them afloat? | Science | AAAS
  • 05/15 High SARS-CoV-2 Attack Rate Following Exposure at a Choir Practice — Skagit County, Washington, March 2020 | MMWR
  • 05/15 Failing the Test — The Tragic Data Gap Undermining the U.S. Pandemic Response | NEJM
  • 05/15 Wrong but Useful — What Covid-19 Epidemiologic Models Can and Cannot Tell Us | NEJM
  • 05/18 Characteristics of Persons Who Died with COVID-19 — United States, February 12–May 18, 2020 | MMWR
  • 05/19 Why do some COVID-19 patients infect many others, whereas most don’t spread the virus at all? | Science | AAAS
  • 05/19 Vaccine experts say Moderna's Covid-19 data leave big questions | StatNews
  • 05/21 COVID-19 Projections: Delayed Response to Rebound Would Cost Lives | Columbia Public Health
  • 05/22 The world may be overestimating the power of Covid-19 vaccines | StatNews
  • 05/26 ‘This is insane!’ Many scientists lament Trump’s embrace of risky malaria drugs for coronavirus | Science | AAAS
  • 05/26 New research rewrites history of when Covid-19 took off in the U.S. | StatNews
  • 05/27 Masks reduce airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 | EurekAlert! Science News
  • 05/27 The epic battle against coronavirus misinformation and conspiracy theories - Nature
  • 05/28 COVID-19 Vaccine Developers Search for Antibodies That 'First Do No Harm' - Scientific American

    June 2020

  • 06/02 A mysterious company’s coronavirus papers in top medical journals may be unraveling | Science | AAAS
  • 06/07 Racism, Not Genetics, Explains Why Black Americans Are Dying Of COVID-19 - Scientific American Blog Network
  • 06/07 SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines: ‘Warp Speed’ Needs Mind Melds not Warped Minds[v1] | Preprints
  • 06/09 Widespread facemask use could shrink the 'R' number and prevent a second COVID-19 wave: study - Medical Xpress
  • 06/11 Coronavirus immunity is a mystery. Scientists are trying to crack the case | StatNews
  • 06/15 What's a coronavirus superspreader? | MIT Technology Review
  • 06/17 Rising Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations underscore the long road ahead - StatNews
  • 06/24 Coronavirus misinformation, and how scientists can help to fight it - Nature
  • 06/24 Mounting clues suggest the coronavirus might trigger diabetes - Nature
  • 06/25 As Covid-19 peaks, a virus once again takes advantage of human instinct - StatNews
  • 06/26 Reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2 | Science
  • 06/26 Reducing transmission of SARS-CoV-2 - Science
  • 06/26 Why scientists say wearing masks shouldn’t be controversial | Science News
  • 06/26 Not just the lungs: Covid-19 attacks like no other 'respiratory' virus - STAT
  • 06/26 Anti-vaxxers bullying slows public health efforts against Covid-19 - STAT
  • 06/29 Childhood Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome — A New Challenge in the Pandemic | NEJM
  • 06/29 The line is forming for a COVID-19 vaccine. Who should be at the front? | Science | AAAS
  • 06/29 Studies find nearly 300 kids with inflammatory condition tied to Covid-19 - StatNews
  • 06/30 New White House rules restrict use of grant funding to deal with COVID-19 impacts | Science | AAAS
  • 06/30 U.S. could see 100,000 new Covid-19 cases per day, Fauci says - STAT

    July 2020

  • 07/01 Coronavirus Antibody Tests Have a Mathematical Pitfall - Scientific American
  • 07/07 Do cloth masks actually work? | MIT Medical
  • 07/07 School openings across globe suggest ways to keep coronavirus at bay, despite outbreaks | Science | AAAS
  • 07/08 Mounting evidence suggests coronavirus is airborne — but health advice has not caught up - Nature
  • 07/08 Oxford COVID-19 study: face masks and coverings work – act now | University of Oxford
  • 07/08 Dozens More Cases of Neurological Problems in COVID-19 Reported | The Scientist Magazine
  • 07/10 COVID-19 can be transmitted in the womb, study reports - MedicalXpress
  • 07/10 A WHO-led mission may investigate the pandemic’s origin. Here are the key questions to ask | Science | AAAS
  • 07/10 Hospitals running short of remdesivir for Covid-19 patients - STAT
  • 07/11 If the coronavirus is really airborne, we might be fighting it the wrong way | MIT Technology Review
  • 07/13 Scientists discover key element of strong antibody response to COVID-19 - MedicalXpress
  • 07/14 How to fix the Covid-19 dumpster fire in the U.S. - STAT
  • 07/16 Data secrecy is crippling attempts to slow COVID-19’s spread in U.S., epidemiologists warn | Science | AAAS
  • 07/16 $75 billion required to fix flawed U.S. Covid-19 testing, report says - STAT
  • 07/17 Absence of Apparent Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from Two Stylists After Exposure at a Hair Salon with a Universal Face Covering Policy — Springfield, Missouri, May 2020 | MMWR
  • 07/19 Making sense of the research on COVID-19 and masks - BYU
  • 07/20 Coronavirus-infected cells sprout filaments that may spread the virus | Science News
  • 07/20 6 burning questions for Covid-19 vaccine developers headed to the House - StatNews
  • 07/21 COVID-19’s Best Analog Is the 1930s Dust Bowl, Not the 1918 Flu | Global Health NOW
  • 07/24 Ecology and economics for pandemic prevention | Science
  • 07/24 'Trump owes us an apology.’ Chinese scientist at the center of COVID-19 origin theories speaks out | Science | AAAS
  • 07/24 The Search for Immune Responses that Stop COVID-19 | The Scientist Magazine®
  • 07/27 Covid-19 vaccines may cause mild side effects, experts say - StatNews
  • 07/27 Covid-19 leaves its impact on the heart, raising fears of lasting damage - StatNews
  • 07/27 To beat the pandemic, we need outreach about a Covid-19 vaccine - STAT
  • 07/28 Facebook's vaccine misinformation problem faces a new test with Covid-19 - StatNews
  • 07/29 Gene study shows how coronavirus swept through the Diamond Princess - MedicalXpress
  • 07/31 How does SARS-CoV-2 cause COVID-19? | Science
  • 07/31 From ‘brain fog’ to heart damage, COVID-19’s lingering problems alarm scientists | Science | AAAS

    August 2020

  • 08/01 Too Many Black Americans Are Dying from COVID-19 - Scientific American
  • 08/04 Two decades of pandemic war games failed to account for Donald Trump
  • 08/04 Designer antibodies could battle COVID-19 before vaccines arrive | Science | AAAS
  • 08/05 How the pandemic might play out in 2021 and beyond
  • 08/10 A never-before-seen image of the coronavirus copy machine
  • 08/10 America's window of opportunity to beat back Covid-19 is closing
  • 08/11 Masks Save Lives: Duke Study Confirms Which Ones Work Best | Hartford HealthCare
  • 08/11 A negative COVID-19 test does not mean recovery
  • 08/11 Russia’s approval of a COVID-19 vaccine is less than meets the press release | Science | AAAS
  • 08/11 Antibody drugs could be key tools against Covid-19. But will they matter?
  • 08/12 Covid-19 “long haulers” are organizing online to study themselves | MIT Technology Review
  • 08/13 Nanobodies Against the Coronavirus: Something New | In the Pipeline
  • 08/13 The Trump administration haphazardly gave away millions of masks - STAT
  • 08/14 Vaccine nationalism's politics | Science
  • 08/14 A potent neutralizing nanobody against SARS-CoV-2 with inhaled delivery potential | bioRxiv
  • 08/14 How will COVID-19 affect the coming flu season? Scientists struggle for clues | Science | AAAS
  • 08/16 Hydroxychloroquine, push-scooters, and COVID-19: A journal gets stung, and swiftly retracts – Retraction Watch
  • 08/19 Evidence lags behind excitement over blood plasma as a coronavirus treatment
  • 08/22 Drug firms rebut Trump tweet that FDA delaying Covid-19 vaccines - STAT
  • 08/23 FDA, under pressure, authorizes blood plasma as Covid-19 treatment
  • 08/24 Convalescent Plasma: The Science and the Politics | In the Pipeline - Science Magazine
  • 08/24 Vaccines targeting SARS-CoV-2 tested in humans | Nature Medicine
  • 08/24 In FDA’s green light for treating COVID-19 with plasma, critics see thin evidence—and politics | Science | AAAS
  • 08/24 First Covid-19 reinfection documented in Hong Kong, researchers say - STAT
  • 08/24 On FDA’s tumultuous weekend — and questions about its independence
  • 08/25 Cities: build networks and share plans to emerge stronger from COVID-19
  • 08/25 Why the United States is having a coronavirus data crisis - Nature
  • 08/25 Four scenarios on how we might develop immunity to Covid-19
  • 08/27 Trump pledges a Covid-19 vaccine by end of 2020 - STAT
  • 08/27 COVID-19 vaccine trials should seek worthwhile efficacy - The Lancet
  • 08/28 New Study Highlights New Evidence That Masks Prevent Coronavirus Spread – Health Essentials from Cleveland Clinic
  • 08/28 Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Viral Shedding in Pediatric Patients Infected With Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2): Under the Surface | Infectious Diseases | JAMA Pediatrics | JAMA Network
  • 08/28 The coronavirus is most deadly if you are older and male — new data reveal the risks - Nature
  • 08/28 Here’s how the U.S. could release a COVID-19 vaccine before the election—and why that scares some | Science | AAAS
  • 08/28 My severe Covid-19: It felt like dying in solitary confinement - STAT
  • 08/31 COVID-19 Can Wreck Your Heart, Even if You Haven't Had Any Symptoms - Scientific American

    September 2020

  • 09/01 The Power of Antibody-Based Surveillance | NEJM
  • 09/01 Can Europe tame the pandemic’s next wave? | Science | AAAS
  • 09/02 Diabetes as a consequence of COVID-19 | Medical Xpress
  • 09/02 Experts see chance for Covid-19 vaccine approval this fall — if done right - STAT
  • 09/03 First COVID-19 Global Forecast: IHME Projects Three-Quarters of a Million Lives Could be Saved by January 1 | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
  • 09/03 We’re on our own | Science Translational Medicine
  • 09/04 Over 7,000 health workers dead from coronavirus, Amnesty says - Medical Xpress
  • 09/04 Reopening schools during COVID-19 | Science | Science
  • 09/04 COVID-19 Makes B Cells Forget, but T Cells Remember: Cell
  • 09/04 Evolution of the COVID-19 vaccine development landscape | Nature
  • 09/04 Coronavirus reinfections: three questions scientists are asking | Nature
  • 09/04 Can you catch COVID-19 from your neighbor’s toilet? | Science | AAAS
  • 09/04 ‘Carnage’ in a lab dish shows how coronavirus may damage hearts - STAT
  • 09/08 Why COVID-19 is more deadly in people with obesity—even if they're young | Science | AAAS
  • 09/08 AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine study is put on hold - STAT
  • 09/09 Covid-19: Government plans to spend £100bn on expanding testing to 10 million a day | The BMJ
  • 09/09 COVID-19 herd immunity: where are we? | Nature Reviews Immunology
  • 09/09 AstraZeneca CEO says participant had neurological symptoms, could be discharged today - STAT
  • 09/10 Colleges in 50 states seeing COVID cases on campus - Medical Xpress
  • 09/10 Prospects for SARS-CoV-2 diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines in Africa | Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • 09/10 Public trust in CDC, Fauci, other officials is evaporating, poll finds - STAT
  • 09/11 The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in Europe and North America | Science
  • 09/11 Trump lied about science | Science
  • 09/11 Delay or Avoidance of Medical Care Because of COVID-19–Related Concerns — United States, June 2020 | MMWR
  • 09/11 Community and Close Contact Exposures Associated with COVID-19 Among Symptomatic Adults ≥18 Years in 11 Outpatient Health Care Facilities — United States, July 2020 | MMWR
  • 09/11 Transmission Dynamics of COVID-19 Outbreaks Associated with Child Care Facilities — Salt Lake City, Utah, April–July 2020 | MMWR
  • 09/12 Brazil virus death toll passes 130,000 - Medical Xpress
  • 09/12 Major Covid-19 vaccine trial resumes in UK after safety review - Medical Xpress
  • 09/12 Pfizer and BioNTech announce plan to expand Covid-19 vaccine trial - STAT
  • 09/15 Minorities made up 78% of US COVID-19 pediatric deaths: study
  • 09/15 COVID-19: All the wrong moves in all the wrong places | Science Signaling
  • 09/15 SARS-CoV-2–Associated Deaths Among Persons Aged 21 Years — United States, February 12–July 31, 2020 | MMWR
  • 09/15 Frontiers | Seasonality of Respiratory Viral Infections: Will COVID-19 Follow Suit? | Public Health
  • 09/15 Study the role of hubris in nations’ COVID-19 response
  • 09/15 How COVID-19 can damage the brain - Nature
  • 09/15 As evidence builds that COVID-19 can damage the heart, doctors are racing to understand it | Science | AAAS
  • 09/16 Fast coronavirus tests: what they can and can’t do - Nature
  • 09/17 Stroke scans could reveal COVID-19 infection - MedicalXpress
  • 09/17 Obesity, Race/Ethnicity, and COVID-19 | Overweight & Obesity | CDC
  • 09/18 Researchers validate clinical feasibility for CRISPR-based COVID-19 testing at point of care
  • 09/18 Early Release - In-Flight Transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 - Volume 26, Number 11—November 2020 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC
  • 09/18 Early Release - Transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 During Long Flight - Volume 26, Number 11—November 2020 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC
  • 09/20 Keep your mask on: Why a coronavirus vaccine won't be the panacea many hope for - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
  • 09/21 Tracking COVID-19 with wastewater | Nature Biotechnology
  • 09/21 64 wealthy nations, minus the U.S., China, back Covid-19 vaccine initiative - STAT
  • 09/21 The Coronavirus Task Force needs to make its reports public - STAT
  • 09/21 What can we expect from first-generation COVID-19 vaccines? - The Lancet
  • 09/23 COVID-19 can affect the heart | Science
  • 09/23 Changing Age Distribution of the COVID-19 Pandemic — United States, May–August 2020 | MMWR
  • 09/23 COVID-19 can affect the heart | Science
  • 09/24 Blood-based test accurately identifies viral infection before symptoms develop - MedicalXpress
  • 09/24 A trial is needed to determine which Covid-19 vaccines work best - STAT
  • 09/24 In the race for a Covid-19 vaccine, here come the tortoises - STAT
  • 09/25 Psychological distress during the COVID-19 lockdown: The young adults most at risk - ScienceDirect
  • 09/27 Coronavirus could overwhelm France, top doctor warns - MedicalXpress
  • 09/27 Lifted Up from Lockdown: Cell
  • 09/28 Clinical Outcomes of In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in COVID-19 | Cardiology | JAMA Internal Medicine | JAMA Network
  • 09/28 The Exclusion of Older Persons From Vaccine and Treatment Trials for Coronavirus Disease 2019—Missing the Target | Geriatrics | JAMA Internal Medicine | JAMA Network
  • 09/28 COVID-19 Trends Among School-Aged Children — United States, March 1–September 19, 2020 | MMWR
  • 09/28 New chart reveals military’s vast involvement in Operation Warp Speed - STAT
  • 09/29 How will we distribute a COVID-19 vaccine? Here’s one potential path
  • 09/29 Political partisanship influences behavioral responses to governors’ recommendations for COVID-19 prevention in the United States | PNAS
  • 09/29 Inner Workings: Researchers race to develop in-home testing for COVID-19, a potential game changer | PNAS
  • 09/29 One number could help reveal how infectious a COVID-19 patient is. Should test results include it? | Science | AAAS
  • 09/29 Regeneron Covid-19 antibody may help speed recovery, early data show - STAT
  • 09/29 Confronting antimicrobial resistance beyond the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 US election - The Lancet
  • 09/30 Two words Trump can’t say | Science
  • 09/30 The FDA and the Importance of Trust | NEJM
  • 09/30 Ruthless Health Law | NEJM
  • 09/30 This biologist helped trace SARS to bats. Now, he's working to uncover the origins of COVID-19 | Science | AAAS
  • 09/30 Flu Season Never Came to the Southern Hemisphere - Scientific American

    October 2020

  • 10/01 Risk of COVID-19 During Air Travel | Infectious Diseases | JAMA | JAMA Network
  • 10/01 FDA’s own documents reveal agency’s lax, slow, and secretive oversight of clinical research | Science | AAAS
  • 10/02 Physics - How Speaking Creates Droplets That May Spread COVID-19 - APS
  • 10/03 On the Sidelines: NYC's COVID-19 Outbreak from the Eyes of a Pulmonary and Critical Care Team's Biostatistician | KHstats
  • 10/05 What are monoclonal antibodies – and can they treat Covid-19? | News | Wellcome
  • 10/05 Adolescent with COVID-19 as the Source of an Outbreak at a 3-Week Family Gathering — Four States, June–July 2020 | MMWR
  • 10/05 How Trump damaged science — and why it could take decades to recover - Nature
  • 10/06 Trends in COVID-19 Incidence After Implementation of Mitigation Measures — Arizona, January 22–August 7, 2020 | MMWR
  • 10/06 Face masks: what the data say - Nature
  • 10/06 Race for Covid-19 vaccine slows as U.S. officials tap the brakes - STAT
  • 10/07 How and Why Patients Made Long Covid - ScienceDirect
  • 10/07 Calm down about political ‘mischief’ around COVID-19 vaccines, scientists say | Science | AAAS
  • 10/07 Trump's Illness and the Need for a Reset on U.S. Coronavirus Policy - Scientific American
  • 10/07 8 questions we still have about Trump's case of Covid-19 - STAT
  • 10/07 Covid-19 long-haulers and the experience of 'hidden' disabilities - STAT
  • 10/08 Dying in a Leadership Vacuum | NEJM
  • 10/08 New test detects coronavirus in just 5 minutes | Science | AAAS
  • 10/09 Panel: Aerosols Driving COVID-19 Spread | MedPage Today
  • 10/09 Charting a Path Out of COVID Means Remembering Data and Humanity - Medscape
  • 10/09 Early Release - SARS-CoV-2 Cluster in Nursery, Poland - Volume 27, Number 1—January 2021 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC
  • 10/11 Why do COVID death rates seem to be falling?
  • 10/11 COVID Misinformation Is Killing People - Scientific American
  • 10/12 The COVID-19 Pandemic and the $16 Trillion Virus | Infectious Diseases | JAMA | JAMA Network
  • 10/12 Eight Persistent COVID-19 Myths and Why People Believe Them - Scientific American
  • 10/12 Why So Many Americans Are Skeptical of a Coronavirus Vaccine - Scientific American
  • 10/12 Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine study paused due to illness - STAT
  • 10/12 What reinfections mean for COVID-19 - The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • 10/13 Will SARS-CoV-2 become endemic? | Science
  • 10/13 Found: genes that sway the course of the coronavirus | Science | AAAS
  • 10/13 Fauci: Trump’s rapid recovery ‘amplifies’ misunderstanding of Covid-19 - STAT
  • 10/13 Lessons from New Zealand's COVID-19 outbreak response - The Lancet Public Health
  • 10/14 Immunity and Re-Infection | In the Pipeline
  • 10/14 “Herd Immunity” is Not an Answer to a Pandemic - IDSA
  • 10/14 How the coronavirus attacks
  • 10/14 Why Nature supports Joe Biden for US president - Nature
  • 10/14 How anti-ageing drugs could boost COVID vaccines in older people - Nature
  • 10/14 Supporting Clinicians during Covid-19 and Beyond — Learning from Past Failures and Envisioning New Strategies | NEJM
  • 10/14 Early approval of a COVID-19 vaccine could stymie the hunt for better ones | Science | AAAS
  • 10/14 The inside story of how Trump’s COVID-19 coordinator undermined the world’s top health agency | Science | AAAS
  • 10/15 Scientific consensus on the COVID-19 pandemic: we need to act now - The Lancet
  • 10/15 Early Release - Superspreading Event of SARS-CoV-2 Infection at a Bar, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - Volume 27, Number 1—January 2021 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC
  • 10/16 Not throwing away our shot | Science
  • 10/16 Prospects for a safe COVID-19 vaccine | Science Translational Medicine
  • 10/16 Courage in a climate of fear | Science Translational Medicine
  • 10/16 An Outbreak of COVID-19 Associated with a Recreational Hockey Game — Florida, June 2020 | MMWR
  • 10/16 Race, Ethnicity, and Age Trends in Persons Who Died from COVID-19 — United States, May–August 2020 | MMWR
  • 10/16 Trustworthiness before Trust — Covid-19 Vaccine Trials and the Black Community | NEJM
  • 10/16 Remdesivir and interferon fall flat in WHO’s megastudy of COVID-19 treatments | Science | AAAS
  • 10/19 Blog | The State of State Antigen Test Reporting | The COVID Tracking Project
  • 10/19 All eyes on a hurdle race for a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine - Nature
  • 10/19 America's Last Line of Defense for a Safe Vaccine - Scientific American
  • 10/20 Variation in racial/ethnic disparities in COVID-19 mortality by age in the United States: A cross-sectional study - PLOS
  • 10/20 Excess Deaths Associated with COVID-19, by Age and Race and Ethnicity — United States, January 26–October 3, 2020 | MMWR
  • 10/20 Risk for In-Hospital Complications Associated with COVID-19 and Influenza — Veterans Health Administration, United States, October 1, 2018–May 31, 2020 | MMWR
  • 10/20 Dozens to be deliberately infected with coronavirus in UK ‘human challenge’ trials - Nature
  • 10/20 How obesity could create problems for a COVID vaccine - Nature
  • 10/20 Inner Workings: Researchers race to develop in-home testing for COVID-19, a potential game changer | PNAS
  • 10/20 Core Concept: The pandemic is prompting widespread use—and misuse—of real-world data | PNAS
  • 10/20 Debunking the False Claim That COVID Death Counts Are Inflated - Scientific American
  • 10/20 Why an FDA advisory panel's meeting on Covid-19 vaccines matters - StatNews
  • 10/21 Understanding COVID-19 vaccine efficacy | Science
  • 10/21 COVID-19 in a Correctional Facility Employee Following Multiple Brief Exposures to Persons with COVID-19 — Vermont, July–August 2020 | MMWR
  • 10/21 Why decoding the immune response to COVID matters for vaccines - Nature
  • 10/21 The false promise of herd immunity for COVID-19 - Nature
  • 10/22 Inadequate COVID-19 Response Likely Resulted in 130,000 - 210,000 Avoidable Deaths - Coronavirus Coverage
  • 10/22 Understanding protection from SARS-CoV-2 by studying reinfection | Nature Medicine
  • 10/23 The engines of SARS-CoV-2 spread | Science
  • 10/23 COVID-19 can affect the heart | Science
  • 10/23 Adoption of Strategies to Mitigate Transmission of COVID-19 During a Statewide Primary Election — Delaware, September 2020 | MMWR
  • 10/23 FDA shows concern over emergency authorization of Covid-19 vaccines - STAT
  • 10/24 Biden pledges free Covid vaccine for 'everyone' in US if elected - MedicalXpress
  • 10/24 Germany virus death toll passes 10,000: health institute - MedicalXpress
  • 10/26 COVID-19–Associated Hospitalizations Among Health Care Personnel — COVID-NET, 13 States, March 1–May 31, 2020 | MMWR
  • 10/26 WHO warns giving up on efforts to control Covid-19 would be 'dangerous' - STAT
  • 10/27 Blog | Cases Matter | The COVID Tracking Project
  • 10/27 For COVID-19 Vaccines, ACIP Will Be a Critical Gatekeeper - Medscape
  • 10/27 Preparing for the vaccine | Nature Biotechnology
  • 10/27 The ‘very, very bad look’ of remdesivir, the first FDA-approved COVID-19 drug | Science | AAAS
  • 10/29 Elective Surgery during the Covid-19 Pandemic | NEJM
  • 10/29 It may be time to reset expectations on when we'll get a Covid-19 vaccine
  • 10/29 COVID-19 transmission—up in the air - The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
  • 10/30 Fatalities from COVID-19 are reducing Americans’ support for Republicans at every level of federal office | Science Advances
  • 10/30 The science of superspreading
  • 10/30 Transmission of SARS-COV-2 Infections in Households — Tennessee and Wisconsin, April–September 2020 | MMWR
  • 10/30 Innovation in wastewater near-source tracking for rapid identification of COVID-19 in schools - The Lancet Microbe

    November 2020

  • 11/02 New cause of COVID-19 blood clots identified - Medical XPress
  • 11/02 Europe is locking down a second time. But what is its long-term plan? | Science | AAAS
  • 11/03 Face Coverings Could Save 130,000 American Lives from COVID-19 by March – NIH Director's Blog
  • 11/03 COVID-19 'super-spreading' events play outsized role in overall disease transmission - Medical XPress
  • 11/03 Will a small, long-shot U.S. company end up producing the best coronavirus vaccine? | Science | AAAS
  • 11/04 Challenges in creating herd immunity to SARS-CoV-2 infection by mass vaccination - The Lancet
  • 11/05 Startling Case Study Finds Asymptomatic COVID-19 Carrier Who Shed Virus For 70 Days
  • 11/05 Emergency use authorisation for COVID-19 vaccines: lessons from Ebola - The Lancet
  • 11/06 Declines in SARS-CoV-2 Transmission, Hospitalizations, and Mortality After Implementation of Mitigation Measures— Delaware, March–June 2020 | MMWR
  • 11/07 Digging the rabbit hole, COVID-19 edition: anti-vaccine themes and the discourse around COVID-19 - ScienceDirect
  • 11/07 Biden’s ready to start his pandemic response immediately 
  • 11/07 More than medical mistrust - The Lancet
  • 11/09 Good reasons to vaccinate: mandatory or payment for risk? | Journal of Medical Ethics
  • 11/09 Characteristics of Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients Discharged and Experiencing Same-Hospital Readmission — United States, March–August 2020 | MMWR
  • 11/09 What Pfizer’s landmark COVID vaccine results mean for the pandemic
  • 11/09 Champagne and questions greet first data showing that a COVID-19 vaccine works | Science | AAAS
  • 11/09 Biden transition team unveils members of Covid-19 task force
  • 11/09 Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech is strongly effective, data show
  • 11/10 Study identifies new 'hidden' gene in COVID-19 virus - Phys.Org
  • 11/10 Scientific Brief: Community Use of Cloth Masks to Control the Spread of SARS-CoV-2 | CDC
  • 11/10 Can a nose-full of chicken antibodies ward off coronavirus infections? | Science | AAAS
  • 11/11 Reflections of a COVID-19 Long Hauler | Humanities | JAMA | JAMA Network
  • 11/11 Study of nearly 2,000 Marine recruits reveals asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 transmission - Medical Xpress
  • 11/11 Seroprevalence of anti–SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies in Kenyan blood donors | Science
  • 11/11 COVID research updates: A coronavirus mutation could weaken antibodies’ power - Nature
  • 11/11 Where did COVID come from? WHO investigation begins but faces challenges
  • 11/11 In fatal COVID-19, the immune response can control the virus but kill the patient | PNAS
  • 11/11 Fact check: No evidence supports Trump’s claim that COVID-19 vaccine result was suppressed to sway election | Science | AAAS
  • 11/11 We Finally Have a COVID Strategy - Scientific American
  • 11/12 COVID-19 Forecasts: Deaths | CDC
  • 11/16 Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine is strongly effective, early look at data show - STAT
  • 11/17 How the Covid-19 pandemic has been curtailed in Cherokee Nation - STAT
  • 11/18 Vaccine Possibilities | In the Pipeline
  • 11/18 Rapid Response to an Outbreak in Qingdao, China | NEJM
  • 11/18 More people are getting COVID-19 twice, suggesting immunity wanes quickly in some | Science | AAAS
  • 11/18 Mysteries of COVID Smell Loss Finally Yield Some Answers - Scientific American
  • 11/18 The Surprising Mental Toll of COVID - Scientific American
  • 11/18 Pfizer and BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine is 95% effective, full results show - STAT
  • 11/19 COVID Patients' Crackpot Theories Take Toll on Healthcare Workers | MedPage Today
  • 11/20 Advancing new tools for infectious diseases | Science
  • 11/20 COVID-19 Stats: COVID-19 Incidence, by Urban-Rural Classification — United States, January 22–October 31, 2020 | MMWR
  • 11/20 COVID-19 Outbreak Associated with a 10-Day Motorcycle Rally in a Neighboring State — Minnesota, August–September 2020 | MMWR
  • 11/20 Trends in County-Level COVID-19 Incidence in Counties With and Without a Mask Mandate — Kansas, June 1–August 23, 2020 | MMWR
  • 11/20 COVAX Facility convenes first meeting of COVAX AMC engagement group | Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
  • 11/20 Viruses Can Help Us as Well as Harm Us - Scientific American
  • 11/20 Hospitals scramble to solve challenges with new Covid-19 drug - STAT
  • 11/20 Pfizer, BioNTech submit Covid-19 vaccine application to FDA
  • 11/21 COVID-19 vaccines: no time for complacency - The Lancet
  • 11/22 Airflow studies reveal strategies to reduce indoor transmission of COVID-19 | EurekAlert! Science News
  • 11/23 The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ Ethical Principles for Allocating Initial Supplies of COVID-19 Vaccine — United States, 2020 | MMWR
  • 11/23 Can dogs smell COVID? Here’s what the science says
  • 11/23 Why Oxford’s positive COVID vaccine results are puzzling scientists - Nature
  • 11/24 With more data on its COVID-19 vaccine, Russian institute offers new evidence of success | Science | AAAS
  • 11/25 German vials in spotlight as COVID-19 vaccine nears - Medical Xpress
  • 11/25 Ensuring safety of COVID-19 vaccines | Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
  • 11/25 How Iceland hammered COVID with science
  • 11/25 Supporting US public health experts | Nature Biotechnology
  • 11/27 Mask defiance remains strong in Montana as the pandemic rages - STAT
  • 11/30 How COVID vaccines are being divvied up around the world
  • 11/30 Toward superhuman SARS-CoV-2 immunity? | Nature Medicine
  • 11/30 ‘Absolutely remarkable’: No one who got Moderna’s vaccine in trial developed severe COVID-19 | Science | AAAS
  • 11/30 Divisions emerge among U.S. officials over first Covid-19 vaccine - STAT

    December 2020

  • 12/01 Annals Graphic Medicine - Be Aware of Droplets and Bubbles | Annals of Internal Medicine
  • 12/01 Mass testing for COVID-19 - The Lancet Microbe
  • 12/01 Advice on the use of masks in the community, during home care and in healthcare settings in the context of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak - WHO
  • 12/02 US expects 100 million people vaccinated by February - Medical Xpress
  • 12/02 Covid-19: Concerns persist about purpose, ethics, and effect of rapid testing in Liverpool | The BMJ
  • 12/02 Could COVID delirium bring on dementia? - Nature
  • 12/02 Face masks considerably reduce COVID-19 cases in Germany | PNAS
  • 12/02 How to get the most of Covid-19 vaccines — and not squander our chance - STAT
  • 12/03 The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ Interim Recommendation for Allocating Initial Supplies of COVID-19 Vaccine — United States, 2020 | MMWR
  • 12/04 Increase in Hospital-Acquired Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Infection and Colonization in an Acute Care Hospital During a Surge in COVID-19 Admissions — New Jersey, February–July 2020 | MMWR
  • 12/04 Summary of Guidance for Public Health Strategies to Address High Levels of Community Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and Related Deaths, December 2020 | MMWR
  • 12/04 Covid-19 Will Reduce US Life Expectancy at Birth by More Than One Year in 2020 | medRxiv
  • 12/07 Ventilation | CDC
  • 12/07 Implementing Mitigation Strategies in Early Care and Education Settings for Prevention of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission — Eight States, September–October 2020 | MMWR
  • 12/07 COVID-19: what health experts could and could not predict | Nature Medicine
  • 12/07 Meeting the challenge of long COVID | Nature Medicine
  • 12/08 COVID-19 survivors may develop some immunity, but still should get the vaccine. Here's why - Medical Xpress
  • 12/09 Masks & Face Coverings for the Public - IDSA
  • 12/09 Opinion: We need to improve the welfare of life science trainees | PNAS
  • 12/10 Partisan pandemic: How partisanship and public health concerns affect individuals’ social mobility during COVID-19 | Science Advances
  • 12/10 A smartphone-read ultrasensitive and quantitative saliva test for COVID-19 | Science Advances
  • 12/10 Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee December 10, 2020 Meeting Announcement - 12/10/2020 - 12/10/2020 | FDA
  • 12/10 Estimates of the Initial Priority Population for COVID-19 Vaccination by State | KFF
  • 12/11 COVID-19 Mortality Among American Indian and Alaska Native Persons — 14 States, January–June 2020 | MMWR
  • 12/11 Individual and community-level risk for COVID-19 mortality in the United States | Nature Medicine
  • 12/11 Sanofi suffers major setback in development of a Covid-19 vaccine - STAT
  • 12/14 Why many countries failed at COVID contact-tracing — but some got it right - Nature
  • 12/14 COVID and 2020: An extraordinary year for science - Nature
  • 12/14 RECOVERY trial finds no benefit from azithromycin in patients hospitalised with COVID-19 - RECOVERY Trial
  • 12/15 Inferring the effectiveness of government interventions against COVID-19 | Science
  • 12/15 Factors Associated with Positive SARS-CoV-2 Test Results in Outpatient Health Facilities and Emergency Departments Among Children and Adolescents Aged 18 Years — Mississippi, September–November 2020 | MMWR
  • 12/15 How COVID-19 is changing the cold and flu season - Nature
  • 12/15 What you need to know about the new variant of coronavirus in the UK | New Scientist
  • 12/15 COVID-19 is 10 times deadlier for people with Down syndrome, raising calls for early vaccination | Science | AAAS
  • 12/15 One-quarter of the world may not get a Covid-19 vaccine until 2022 - STAT
  • 12/16 Covid-19: New coronavirus variant is identified in UK | The BMJ
  • 12/16 The coronavirus may sometimes slip its genetic material into human chromosomes—but what does that mean? | Science | AAAS
  • 12/17 Deaths From COVID-19 | Infectious Diseases | JAMA | JAMA Network
  • 12/18 mRNA's next challenge: Will it work as a drug? | Science
  • 12/18 Shots of hope | Science
  • 12/18 A divisive disease | Science
  • 12/18 COVID-19 testing: One size does not fit all | Science
  • 12/18 Vaccination Is the Only Acceptable Path to Herd Immunity: Med
  • 12/18 The lightning-fast quest for COVID vaccines — and what it means for other diseases - Nature
  • 12/18 NICE, RCGP and SIGN publish guideline on managing the long-term effects of COVID-19 | News and features | News | NICE
  • 12/18 Neanderthal gene found in many people may open cells to coronavirus and increase COVID-19 severity | Science | AAAS
  • 12/18 Calling for pan-European commitment for rapid and sustained reduction in SARS-CoV-2 infections - The Lancet
  • 12/18 Long COVID guidelines need to reflect lived experience
  • 12/19 A side-by-side comparison of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines - STAT
  • 12/20 Mutant coronavirus in the United Kingdom sets off alarms, but its importance remains unclear | Science | AAAS
  • 12/21 An estimation of undetected COVID cases in France - Nature
  • 12/21 MIS-C: early lessons from immune profiling | Nature Reviews Rheumatology
  • 12/21 Underdetection of COVID-19 cases in France threatens epidemic control | Nature
  • 12/21 Shaped by war and hardship, ER doctor chronicles Covid-19 - STAT
  • 12/21 WHO | SARS-CoV-2 Variant – United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • 12/22 Implications of the Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Variant VOC 202012/01 | CDC
  • 12/22 A guide to vaccinology: from basic principles to new developments | Nature Reviews Immunology
  • 12/22 Makers of successful COVID-19 vaccines wrestle with options for placebo recipients | Science | AAAS
  • 12/22 Beware the danger of 'vaccine euphoria' in the Covid era - STAT
  • 12/23 Two studies find that COVID-19 antibodies last 8 months | CIDRAP
  • 12/28 US sees a record number of COVID-19 deaths in December | CIDRAP
  • 12/29 FDA Commissioner on COVID Vaccines: 'I'm Incredibly Proud' - Medscape
  • 12/29 Messengers of hope | Nature Biotechnology
  • 12/31 Tokyo tops 1,300 daily virus cases; warns of possible new emergency - Medical Xpress
  • 12/31 They spent 12 years solving a scientific puzzle. It yielded the first COVID-19 vaccines. - National Geographic

    January 2021

  • 01/01 The puzzle of the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa | Science
  • 01/01 A little better all the time in 2021 | Science
  • 01/04 Beijing vaccinates thousands in COVID-19 jab drive - Medical Xpress
  • 01/04 Nigerian scientist studies country's coronavirus variant - Medical Xpress
  • 01/04 Risk of False Results with the Curative SARS-Cov-2 Test for COVID-19: FDA Safety Communication | FDA
  • 01/05 Beyond past due: data to guide US school reopenings - Nature
  • 01/05 Viral mutations may cause another ‘very, very bad’ COVID-19 wave, scientists warn | Science | AAAS
  • 01/06 Allergic Reactions Including Anaphylaxis After Receipt of the First Dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine — United States, December 14–23, 2020 | MMWR
  • 01/07 Brazil announces ‘fantastic’ results for Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccine, but details remain sketchy | Science | AAAS
  • 01/08 Returning to physical activity after covid-19 | The BMJ
  • 01/11 Study identifies genetic changes likely to have enabled SARS-CoV-2 to jump from bats to humans - Phys.org
  • 01/11 More US cardiac deaths, less heart testing globally in COVID | CIDRAP
  • 01/12 Mitigation Policies and COVID-19–Associated Mortality — 37 European Countries, January 23–June 30, 2020 | MMWR
  • 01/12 How COVID unlocked the power of RNA vaccines
  • 01/12 Vaccine makers in Asia rush to test jabs against fast-spreading COVID variant - Nature
  • 01/12 Third time’s the charm? Brazil scales back efficacy claims for COVID-19 vaccine from China | Science | AAAS
  • 01/12 U.S. plan to expand Covid-19 vaccine access likely sets up new debacles - STAT
  • 01/13 Researchers Discover New Variant of COVID-19 Virus in Columbus, Ohio - Ohio State University
  • 01/13 Researchers map genetic changes that may have facilitated SARS-CoV-2’s jump from bats to humans - Medical News
  • 01/13 Will delaying second doses of COVID-19 vaccines spur viral resistance? | Science | AAAS
  • 01/14 How viruses shape our world - National Geographic
  • 01/14 COVID reinfections are unusual — but could still help the virus to spread - Nature
  • 01/15 Herd immunity by infection is not an option | Science
  • 01/15 Covid-19: Doctors’ leaders call for revised PPE guidance to reflect new variants | The BMJ
  • 01/15 Alarming COVID variants show vital role of genomic surveillance
  • 01/15 New coronavirus variants could cause more reinfections, require updated vaccines | Science | AAAS
  • 01/15 Coronavirus variant B.1.1.7 will soon be dominant U.S. strain | Science News
  • 01/16 India starts huge vaccine drive as global virus deaths top 2 million - Medical Xpress
  • 01/19 Visualization of cryo-electron tomography scan of a real SARS-CoV-2 virion
  • 01/19 What we now know — and don’t know — about the coronavirus variants - STAT
  • 01/19 Face masks help control transmission of COVID-19 - The Lancet Digital Health
  • 01/22 New mutations raise specter of ‘immune escape’ | Science
  • 01/22 Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 Lineage — United States, December 29, 2020–January 12, 2021 | MMWR
  • 01/22 Allergic Reactions Including Anaphylaxis After Receipt of the First Dose of Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine — United States, December 21, 2020–January 10, 2021 | MMWR
  • 01/22 Are COVID vaccination programmes working? Scientists seek first clues - Nature
  • 01/22 Monoclonal antibodies can prevent COVID-19—but successful vaccines complicate their future | Science | AAAS
  • 01/23 Asymptomatic infection blunder let Covid-19 spin out of control - STAT
  • 01/25 Gorilla treated with antibodies recovering from COVID, says US zoo -phys.org
  • 01/25 Wearable devices for the detection of COVID-19 | Nature Electronics
  • 01/25 In a major setback, Merck to stop developing its Covid-19 vaccines - STAT
  • 01/25 Undercounting of Covid-19 deaths is greatest in pro-Trump areas - STAT
  • 01/26 Data and Policy to Guide Opening Schools Safely to Limit the Spread of SARS-CoV-2 Infection | Infectious Diseases | JAMA | JAMA Network
  • 01/26 Inclusion of Pregnant and Lactating Persons in COVID-19 Vaccination Efforts | Annals of Internal Medicine
  • 01/26 Vaccine 2.0: Moderna and other companies plan tweaks that would protect against new coronavirus mutations | Science | AAAS
  • 01/27 Vaccination Against the New Variants: Real-World Data | In the Pipeline
  • 01/27 How epidemiology has shaped the COVID pandemic - Nature
  • 01/28 Anti-science kills: From Soviet embrace of pseudoscience to accelerated attacks on US biomedicine
  • 01/28 Novavax says its Covid-19 vaccine is 90% effective in late-stage trial - STAT
  • 01/29 J&J and Novavax Data | In the Pipeline
  • 01/29 China exported more than 220 billion masks in 2020: government - Medical Xpress
  • 01/29 Implementation and Evolution of Mitigation Measures, Testing, and Contact Tracing in the National Football League, August 9–November 21, 2020 | MMWR
  • 01/29 COVID-19 Cases and Transmission in 17 K–12 Schools — Wood County, Wisconsin, August 31–November 29, 2020 | MMWR
  • 01/29 J&J's Covid vaccine is 66% effective, a weapon but not a knockout punch - STAT
  • 01/31 Trump officials lobbied to deny states money for vaccine rollout last fall - STAT

    February 2021

  • 02/02 Researchers make discoveries to better understand SARS-CoV-2 virus - Medical Xpress
  • 02/02 Coronavirus is in the air — there’s too much focus on surfaces
  • 02/03 Why aren’t covid-19 vaccines being manufactured in standard prefilled syringes? | The BMJ
  • 02/03 Immunity and COVID-19: What do we know so far? | British Society for Immunology
  • 02/03 Danish scientists see tough times ahead as they watch more contagious COVID-19 virus surge | Science | AAAS
  • 02/03 With a single number, AstraZeneca study fueled hopes that eclipsed data - STAT
  • 02/04 COVID-19 survivors at 6 months - Nature
  • 02/04 COVID-19 vaccines: acting on the evidence | Nature Medicine
  • 02/04 Why some hospitals have to scramble for oxygen to treat Covid-19 patients - STAT
  • 02/05 Demographic Characteristics of Persons Vaccinated During the First Month of the COVID-19 Vaccination Program — United States, December 14, 2020–January 14, 2021 | MMWR
  • 02/05 Decline in COVID-19 Hospitalization Growth Rates Associated with Statewide Mask Mandates — 10 States, March–October 2020 | MMWR
  • 02/08 Severe undercounting of COVID-19 cases in U.S., other countries estimated via model - MedicalXpress
  • 02/08 Scientists to US: Act now to leash virulent COVID variant | CIDRAP
  • 02/08 Signs of self-sustained inflammatory circuits in severe COVID pneumonia - Nature
  • 02/08 Variant-proof vaccines — invest now for the next pandemic - Nature
  • 02/08 South Africa suspends use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine after it fails to clearly stop virus variant | Science | AAAS
  • 02/09 COVID-19 Vaccination Intent, Perceptions, and Reasons for Not Vaccinating Among Groups Prioritized for Early Vaccination — United States, September and December 2020 | MMWR
  • 02/09 Rapid coronavirus tests: a guide for the perplexed - Nature
  • 02/09 U.S. rushes to fill void in viral sequencing as worrisome coronavirus variants spread | Science | AAAS
  • 02/10 Researchers Investigate What COVID-19 Does to the Heart | Cardiology | JAMA | JAMA Network
  • 02/10 Maximizing Fit for Cloth and Medical Procedure Masks to Improve Performance and Reduce SARS-CoV-2 Transmission and Exposure, 2021 | MMWR
  • 02/10 Covid-19 cases are falling. It could be a calm before a variant-driven storm
  • 02/11 COVID has reached Antarctica. Scientists are extremely concerned for its wildlife - Phys.org
  • 02/11 This COVID-vaccine designer is tackling vaccine hesitancy — in churches and on Twitter - Nature
  • 02/11 World’s largest COVID-19 drug trial identifies second compound that cuts risk of death | Science | AAAS
  • 02/12 How ‘killer’ T cells could boost COVID immunity in face of new variants - Nature
  • 02/12 Escaping Catch-22 — Overcoming Covid Vaccine Hesitancy | NEJM
  • 02/12 Challenges in ensuring global access to COVID-19 vaccines: production, affordability, allocation, and deployment - The Lancet
  • 02/13 The FDA’s Experience with Covid-19 Antibody Tests | NEJM
  • 02/14 'Politics was always in the room.' WHO mission chief reflects on China trip seeking COVID-19’s origin | Science | AAAS
  • 02/16 Some antibodies can dampen antiviral defences in people with severe COVID | Nature
  • 02/16 How soon will COVID-19 vaccines return life to normal? | Science | AAAS
  • 02/17 Vitamin D3 to Treat COVID-19: Different Disease, Same Answer | Complementary and Alternative Medicine | JAMA | JAMA Network
  • 02/17 Vaccinating children: Is COVID-19 herd immunity possible without them? - Medical Xpress
  • 02/17 Vaccination of whole Brazilian city spares it from shortages - Medical Xpress
  • 02/17 First Identified Cases of SARS-CoV-2 Variant B.1.1.7 in Minnesota — December 2020–January 2021 | MMWR
  • 02/17 Detection of B.1.351 SARS-CoV-2 Variant Strain — Zambia, December 2020 | MMWR
  • 02/17 'The Impact of the Vaccine Has Been Tremendous'
  • 02/17 Delayed Second Dose versus Standard Regimen for Covid-19 Vaccination | NEJM
  • 02/17 Unprotected African health workers die as rich countries buy up COVID-19 vaccines | Science | AAAS
  • 02/17 In lab experiment, Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine less potent against coronavirus variant - STAT
  • 02/17 The myth of 'good Covid vaccines' and 'bad Covid vaccines'
  • 02/17 Challenges in interpreting SARS-CoV-2 serological results in African countries - The Lancet Global Health
  • 02/17 What does 95% COVID-19 vaccine efficacy really mean? - The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • 02/18 EU calls for regular virus tests on mink farms - Medical Xpress
  • 02/18 Damage to the heart found in more than half of COVID-19 patients discharged from hospital - Medical Xpress
  • 02/18 Vaccine-poor Germans shunning AstraZeneca jab - Medical Xpress
  • 02/18 Early rate reductions of SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 in BNT162b2 vaccine recipients - The Lancet
  • 02/18 Immune evasion means we need a new COVID-19 social contract - The Lancet Public Health
  • 02/19 A universal coronavirus vaccine | Science
  • 02/19 First Month of COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Monitoring — United States, December 14, 2020–January 13, 2021 | MMWR
  • 02/19 No Cure without Care — Soothing Science Skepticism | NEJM
  • 02/19 Delayed second dose of the BNT162b2 vaccine: innovation or misguided conjecture? - The Lancet
  • 02/22 Identifying COVID-19 Risk Through Observational Studies to Inform Control Measures | Public Health | JAMA | JAMA Network
  • 02/23 What the NBA's Collaboration With Yale Reveals About COVID
  • 02/23 Why COVID vaccines are so difficult to compare | Nature
  • 02/23 Superspreading drives the COVID pandemic — and could help to tame it | Nature
  • 02/23 California coronavirus strain may be more infectious—and lethal | Science | AAAS
  • 02/23 SARS-CoV-2: eye protection might be the missing key - The Lancet Microbe
  • 02/24 The J&J Vaccine at the FDA | In the Pipeline
  • 02/24 Community Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 at Three Fitness Facilities — Hawaii, June–July 2020 | MMWR
  • 02/24 COVID-19 Outbreak Among Attendees of an Exercise Facility — Chicago, Illinois, August–September 2020 | MMWR
  • 02/24 New data shed light on efficacy of J&J’s single-dose Covid vaccine
  • 02/26 SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines | Vaccination | JAMA | JAMA Network
  • 02/26 Reduction in COVID-19 Patients Requiring Mechanical Ventilation Following Implementation of a National COVID-19 Vaccination Program — Israel, December 2020–February 2021 | MMWR
  • 02/26 KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor: February 2021 | KFF

    March 2021

  • 03/01 The Johnson & Johnson Vaccine for COVID-19 | Vaccination | JAMA | JAMA Network
  • 03/01 The Variant Gambit: COVID’s Next Move: Cell Host & Microbe
  • 03/01 Assessing the human immune response to SARS-CoV-2 variants | Nature Medicine
  • 03/01 New immunotherapy drugs target two evasive cancer-driving proteins | Science | AAAS
  • 03/01 To Beat COVID, We May Need a Good Shot in the Nose - Scientific American
  • 03/02 Risk Compensation and COVID-19 Vaccines | Annals of Internal Medicine
  • 03/02 A living WHO guideline on drugs to prevent covid-19 | The BMJ
  • 03/02 The search for animals harbouring coronavirus — and why it matters - Nature
  • 03/02 NIH halts trial of COVID-19 convalescent plasma in emergency department patients with mild symptoms | National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • 03/02 Sex Differences in Immune Responses to Viral Infection | The Scientist Magazine
  • 03/03 First Identified Cases of SARS-CoV-2 Variant P.1 in the United States — Minnesota, January 2021 | MMWR
  • 03/03 Travel from the United Kingdom to the United States by a Symptomatic Patient Infected with the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 Variant — Texas, January 2021 | MMWR
  • 03/03 COVID vaccination studies: plan now to pool data, or be bogged down in confusion - Nature
  • 03/03 Are COVID-19 vaccines safe in pregnancy? | Nature Reviews Immunology
  • 03/03 Young person with long COVID after mild disease - The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
  • 03/05 Association of State-Issued Mask Mandates and Allowing On-Premises Restaurant Dining with County-Level COVID-19 Case and Death Growth Rates — United States, March 1–December 31, 2020 | MMWR
  • 03/05 Multitude of coronavirus variants found in the US — but the threat is unclear - Nature
  • 03/05 Long-haul COVID: heed the lessons from other infection-triggered illnesses - The Lancet
  • 03/08 Body Mass Index and Risk for COVID-19–Related Hospitalization, Intensive Care Unit Admission, Invasive Mechanical Ventilation, and Death — United States, March–December 2020 | MMWR
  • 03/09 Why the lovable llama might be a secret weapon against COVID-19 | Argonne National Laboratory
  • 03/09 Countries now scrambling for COVID-19 vaccines may soon have surpluses to donate | Science | AAAS
  • 03/11 Researchers race to develop antiviral weapons to fight the pandemic coronavirus | Science | AAAS
  • 03/11 COVID-19: the medium is the message - The Lancet
  • 03/12 Immunity to SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern | Science
  • 03/12 Using digital twins in viral infection | Science
  • 03/12 COVID antibody treatments show promise for preventing severe disease - Nature
  • 03/12 Signals of hope: gauging the impact of a rapid national vaccination campaign | Nature Reviews Immunology
  • 03/14 France to evacuate around 100 COVID patients from Paris - Medical Xpress
  • 03/15 COVID Vax in the Immunosuppressed: Reason for Concern | MedPage Today
  • 03/15 Preparing for the next pandemic - Nature
  • 03/15 White House set to unveil sweeping vaccine-confidence campaign - Stat
  • 03/16 What is Going on With the AstraZeneca/Oxford Vaccine? | In the Pipeline
  • 03/16 Helping Manufacturers Navigate Novel Coronavirus Variants | Vaccination | JAMA | JAMA Network
  • 03/16 New report highlights growing concern of vaccine falsification | Infectious Diseases Data Observatory
  • 03/16 How do you treat coronavirus? Here are physicians’ best strategies | Science | AAAS
  • 03/17 ‘It’s a very special picture.’ Why vaccine safety experts put the brakes on AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine | Science | AAAS
  • 03/17 Many people who die of COVID-19 have the virus in their hearts | Science | AAAS
  • 03/18 It's Okay to Overreact: Devi Sridhar Shares COVID's Humbling Lesson - Medscape
  • 03/18 Five reasons why COVID herd immunity is probably impossible - Nature
  • 03/19 Medicine's longest year | Science
  • 03/19 SARS-CoV-2 transmission without symptoms | Science
  • 03/19 COVID-19 Vaccine Second-Dose Completion and Interval Between First and Second Doses Among Vaccinated Persons — United States, December 14, 2020−February 14, 2021 | MMWR
  • 03/19 Effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Among Residents of Two Skilled Nursing Facilities Experiencing COVID-19 Outbreaks — Connecticut, December 2020–February 2021 | MMWR
  • 03/19 Rare COVID reactions might hold key to variant-proof vaccines - Nature
  • 03/19 Major coronavirus variant found in pets for first time | Science | AAAS
  • 03/20 On the Shoulders of Giants — From Jenner’s Cowpox to mRNA Covid Vaccines | NEJM
  • 03/22 Evidence mounting that COVID-19 can cause diabetes type II - Meical Xpress
  • 03/22 Transmissibility and transmission of respiratory viruses | Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • 03/23 China approves inhaled CanSino vaccine for clinical trials - Medical Xpress
  • 03/23 As Variant B.1.427/B.1.429 spreads in California, Nevada and Arizona, HHS stops direct ordering of the monoclonal Bamlanivimab | Science Speaks: Global ID News
  • 03/23 AstraZeneca may have used 'outdated information' on vaccine - STAT
  • 03/24 What we learned from tracking every COVID policy in the world - Medical Xpress
  • 03/24 What scientists do and don’t know about the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID vaccine - Nature
  • 03/25 Latest results put Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID vaccine back on track - Nature
  • 03/26 The emerging plasticity of SARS-CoV-2 | Science
  • 03/26 Scandal over COVID vaccine trial at Peruvian universities prompts outrage - Nature
  • 03/26 COVID-19 is soaring again in India. Can vaccines stop it? | Science | AAAS
  • 03/27 A rare clotting disorder may cloud the world’s hopes for AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine | Science | AAAS
  • 03/29 WHO report: COVID likely 1st jumped into humans from animals - Medical Xpress
  • 03/29 mRNA technology promises to revolutionize future vaccines and treatments for cancer, infectious diseases | AAMC
  • 03/29 COVID-19 antibodies appear to ward off B117 better than B1351 | CIDRAP
  • 03/30 Why indoor spaces are still prime COVID hotspots - Nature
  • 03/30 WHO report into COVID pandemic origins zeroes in on animal markets, not labs - Nature
  • 03/31 Racial differences in outcomes of COVID-19 patients in Detroit ICU: No difference says researchers - Outbreak News Today
  • 03/31 Genomic Surveillance: Why We Need to Ramp Up Sequencing to End the Pandemic | Global Biodefense
  • 03/31 Provisional Mortality Data — United States, 2020 | MMWR

    April 2021

  • 04/01 Genome sequencing shows coronavirus variation drives pandemic surges | EurekAlert! Science News
  • 04/01 Concerns about SARS-CoV-2 evolution should not hold back efforts to expand vaccination | Nature Reviews Immunology
  • 04/02 Side effect worry grows for AstraZeneca vaccine | Science
  • 04/02 Interim Estimates of Vaccine Effectiveness of BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 COVID-19 Vaccines in Preventing SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Health Care Personnel, First Responders, and Other Essential and Frontline Workers — Eight U.S. Locations, December 2020–March - CDC
  • 04/03 From Vaccine Nationalism to Vaccine Equity — Finding a Path Forward | NEJM
  • 04/05 A year after pandemic hit, Haiti awaits vaccines amid apathy - Medical Xpress
  • 04/05 EPA Researchers Test Effectiveness of Face Masks, Disinfection Methods Against COVID-19 | US EPA
  • 04/05 Employers can require workers to get authorized Covid-19 vaccines - STAT
  • 04/06 The catastrophic Brazilian response to covid-19 may amount to a crime against humanity - The BMJ
  • 04/07 Pfizer unveils its oral SARS-CoV-2 inhibitor - Chemical and Engineering News
  • 04/07 COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Excess Mortality and Potential Years of Life Lost in the U.S. and Peer Countries - Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker
  • 04/07 Preparing for the Future — Nanobodies for Covid-19? | NEJM
  • 04/08 Biden officials won’t surge vaccine supply to Michigan, despite Covid spike - STAT
  • 04/09 The story behind COVID-19 vaccines | Science
  • 04/09 Community Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Associated with a Local Bar Opening Event — Illinois, February 2021 | MMWR
  • 04/10 Remote Patient Monitoring — Overdue or Overused? | NEJM
  • 04/11 Hard choices emerge as link between AstraZeneca vaccine and rare clotting disorder becomes clearer | Science | AAAS
  • 04/12 Vaccine development for emerging infectious diseases | Nature Medicine
  • 04/12 Regeneron says its antibody cocktail injection prevents Covid - STAT
  • 04/13 How scientists are teasing apart the biology of Long COVID | Science | AAAS
  • 04/13 U.S. calls for pause on use of Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine - STAT
  • 04/13 SARS-CoV-2 incidence and vaccine escape - The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • 04/14 Covid-19 has redefined airborne transmission | The BMJ
  • 04/14 Laboratory Modeling of SARS-CoV-2 Exposure Reduction Through Physically Distanced Seating in Aircraft Cabins Using Bacteriophage Aerosol — November 2020 | MMWR
  • 04/14 The race for antiviral drugs to beat COVID — and the next pandemic - Nature
  • 04/15 Study: COVID much more likely than vaccines to cause blood clots | CIDRAP
  • 04/15 Frieden on CDC Fumbles, Blood Clots, and Fixing Our COVID Approach - Medscape
  • 04/15 Risk of rare blood clotting higher for COVID-19 than for vaccines | University of Oxford
  • 04/15 Vaccines that can protect against many coronaviruses could prevent another pandemic | Science | AAAS
  • 04/15 Ten scientific reasons in support of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 - The Lancet
  • 04/16 Indoor Air Changes and Potential Implications for SARS-CoV-2 Transmission | Environmental Health | JAMA | JAMA Network
  • 04/16 The dream vaccine | Science
  • 04/16 This 'Covidgilante' Says Vaccines Work on 'Scariants' - Techonomy
  • 04/16 The race to curb the spread of COVID vaccine disinformation - Nature
  • 04/16 The dream vaccine - Science
  • 04/19 Stem cells show gender differences in COVID-19 risk - Medical Xpress
  • 04/19 The Swedish COVID-19 strategy revisited - The Lancet
  • 04/19 Saliva as a gold-standard sample for SARS-CoV-2 detection - The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
  • 04/20 COVID-19 vaccine efficacy and effectiveness—the elephant (not) in the room - The Lancet Microbe
  • 04/21 Postvaccination SARS-CoV-2 Infections Among Skilled Nursing Facility Residents and Staff Members — Chicago, Illinois, December 2020–March 2021 | MMWR
  • 04/21 COVID-19 Outbreak Associated with a SARS-CoV-2 R.1 Lineage Variant in a Skilled Nursing Facility After Vaccination Program — Kentucky, March 2021 | MMWR
  • 04/21 India's massive COVID surge puzzles scientists - Nature
  • 04/21 Covid-19 news: Further restrictions on AstraZeneca jab in Sweden | New Scientist
  • 04/21 Making Vaccines Is Straightforward; Getting People to Take Them Isn't - Scientific American
  • 04/21 FDA issues scathing report of plant responsible for contaminated vaccines - STAT
  • 04/22 An Uncertain Public — Encouraging Acceptance of Covid-19 Vaccines | NEJM
  • 04/23 Norwegian climber 1st to test positive on Mount Everest - Medical Xpress
  • 04/23 Addressing racial inequities in medicine | Science
  • 04/23 Health Care Utilization and Clinical Characteristics of Nonhospitalized Adults in an Integrated Health Care System 28–180 Days After COVID-19 Diagnosis — Georgia, May 2020–March 2021 | MMWR
  • 04/23 One million coronavirus sequences: popular genome site hits mega milestone - Nature
  • 04/26 COVID-19 vaccine efficacy summary | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
  • 04/26 Nanobodies inhibit SARS-CoV-2 infection, including emergent variants - Phys.org
  • 04/26 Real-world studies find COVID vaccines cut infection, hospitalization | CIDRAP
  • 04/27 Return to Play for Athletes After COVID-19 Infection: The Fog Begins to Clear | Infectious Diseases | JAMA Cardiology | JAMA Network
  • 04/27 Utility of Rapid Antigen Tests in Nursing Homes | Annals of Internal Medicine
  • 04/27 ‘We are being ignored’: Brazil’s researchers blame anti-science government for devastating COVID surge - Nature
  • 04/27 COVID vaccines: time to confront anti-vax aggression - Nature
  • 04/27 COVID-19 ‘brain fog’ inspires search for causes and treatments | Science | AAAS
  • 04/27 COVID-19 vaccines may protect many, but not all, people with suppressed immune systems | Science | AAAS

  • 04/27 Vaccinations are plateauing. Don't blame it on 'resistance' - STAT
  • 04/27 Symptom study app provides real-world data on COVID-19 vaccines - The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • 04/28 Brazil Rejects the Gamaleya Vaccine | In the Pipeline
  • 04/28 Spoonful of honey or a gallon of vinegar? A conditional COVID-19 vaccination policy for front-line healthcare workers | Journal of Medical Ethics
  • 04/28 One dose of COVID vaccine cuts household spread by up to 50%: UK study - Medical Xpress
  • 04/28 Should masks be worn outdoors? | The BMJ
  • 04/28 Effectiveness of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Vaccines Against COVID-19 Among Hospitalized Adults Aged ≥65 Years — United States, January–March 2021 | MMWR
  • 04/28 Will COVID force public health to confront America's epic inequality? - Nature
  • 04/28 Beyond the First Dose — Covid-19 Vaccine Follow-through and Continued Protective Measures | NEJM
  • 04/29 How SARS-CoV-2 hijacks human cells to evade immune system - Medical Xpress
  • 04/29 Superspreaders of Malign and Subversive Information on COVID-19: Russian and Chinese Efforts Targeting the United States | RAND
  • 04/29 Flu Has Disappeared Worldwide during the COVID Pandemic - Scientific American
  • 04/30 WHO Recommendation COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine (nucleoside modified) | WHO - Prequalification of Medical Products (IVDs, Medicines, Vaccines and Immunization Devices, Vector Control)
  • 04/30 How SARS-CoV-2 first adapted in humans | Science
  • 04/30 Fauci to Internists: A Lot of 'Oops' in Early Days of Pandemic | MedPage Today
  • 04/30 Indian government should heed its scientists on COVID - Nature
  • 05/02 India launches effort to inoculate all adults against COVID - Medical Xpress
  • 05/02 South Africa to get first of 4.5 million Pfizer vaccine doses - Medical Xpress
  • 05/04 China’s COVID vaccines are going global — but questions remain - Nature
  • 05/05 Researchers analyze the host origins of SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses - Phys.og
  • 05/05 Rapid Emergence and Epidemiologic Characteristics of the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.526 Variant — New York City, New York, January 1–April 5, 2021 | MMWR
  • 05/05 Identification of and Surveillance for the SARS-CoV-2 Variants B.1.427 and B.1.429 — Colorado, January–March 2021 | MMWR
  • 05/05 Modeling of Future COVID-19 Cases, Hospitalizations, and Deaths, by Vaccination Rates and Nonpharmaceutical Intervention Scenarios — United States, April–September 2021 | MMWR
  • 05/05 Natural vs Vaccine Immunity for COVID: Is One More Effective? | MedPage Today
  • 05/05 After Hundreds of Interviews, Here's John Whyte's View of COVID - Medscape
  • 05/05 Missing the Point — How Primary Care Can Overcome Covid-19 Vaccine “Hesitancy” | NEJM
  • 05/05 U.S. will back proposal to waive Covid-19 vaccine patent rights - STAT
  • 05/05 A global public health convention for the 21st century - The Lancet Public Health
  • 05/06 Estimation of total mortality due to COVID-19 | Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
  • 05/06 Covid-19: India’s crisis is everyone’s crisis | The BMJ
  • 05/06 Further evidence supports controversial claim that SARS-CoV-2 genes can integrate with human DNA | Science | AAAS
  • 05/08 India's COVID-19 emergency - The Lancet
  • 05/08 UK makes massive global health cuts - The Lancet
  • 05/11 Coronavirus variants are spreading in India — what scientists know so far - Nature
  • 05/12 How COVID broke the evidence pipeline - Nature
  • 05/12 How the world failed to curb COVID - Nature
  • 05/12 The Covid-19 Infodemic — Applying the Epidemiologic Model to Counter Misinformation | NEJM
  • 05/12 ‘A toxic cocktail:’ Panel delivers harsh verdict on the world’s failure to prepare for pandemic | Science | AAAS
  • 05/12 Report of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response: making COVID-19 the last pandemic - The Lancet
  • 05/13 Delaying a COVID vaccine’s second dose boosts immune response - Nature
  • 05/14 Israel's COVID-19 endgame | Science
  • 05/14 A paradigm shift to combat indoor respiratory infection | Science
  • 05/14 Investigate the origins of COVID-19 | Science
  • 05/14 5 questions about the New York Yankees’ Covid-19 infections - STAT
  • 05/17 Op-Ed: COVID-19 Has Unleashed Vile Antisemitism | MedPage Today
  • 05/17 COVID vaccines can block variant hitting Asia, lab study finds- Nature
  • 05/17 Trust in science, social consensus and vaccine confidence | Nature Human Behaviour
  • 05/17 Human tissue preserved since World War I yields new clues about 1918 pandemic | Science | AAAS
  • 05/19 Unpacking post-covid symptoms | The BMJ
  • 05/19 Post-covid reforms: can we avoid fighting the last war? | The BMJ
  • 05/19 Antibody Testing Is Not Currently Recommended to Assess Immunity After COVID-19 Vaccination: FDA Safety Communication | FDA
  • 05/19 Contact Tracing for Covid-19 — A Digital Inoculation against Future Pandemics | NEJM
  • 05/19 How the Covid pandemic ends: Scientists look to the past to see the future - STAT
  • 05/19 Emergent knew of vaccine manufacturing issues as it collected millions - STAT
  • 05/20 Will the China report on 266 patients Nov. 17-Dec. 31, 2019 be made public by China, WHO, or by WHA resolution next week? | Science Speaks: Global ID News
  • 05/20 Two more coronaviruses can infect people, studies suggest | Science | AAAS
  • 05/20 Two New Coronaviruses Make the Leap into Humans | The Scientist Magazine®
  • 05/21 Promises Don’t End Pandemics. The U.S. vowed to be an ‘arsenal of… | by Craig Spencer MD MPH | May, 2021 | GEN
  • 05/21 The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ Interim Recommendation for Use of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine in Adolescents Aged 12–15 Years — United States, May 2021 | MMWR
  • 05/21 Interim Estimates of Vaccine Effectiveness of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines Among Health Care Personnel — 33 U.S. Sites, January–March 2021 | MMWR
  • 05/21 Mask Use and Ventilation Improvements to Reduce COVID-19 Incidence in Elementary Schools — Georgia, November 16–December 11, 2020 | MMWR
  • 05/21 COVID-19 Testing to Sustain In-Person Instruction and Extracurricular Activities in High Schools — Utah, November 2020–March 2021 | MMWR
  • 05/21 Scientists zero in on long-sought marker of COVID-vaccine efficacy - Nature
  • 05/23 Monoclonal Antibody Being Developed for Treatment and Prevention of COVID-19, Variants - Contagion Live
  • 05/24 What scientists know about new, fast-spreading coronavirus variants - Nature
  • 05/24 The world needs an intergovernmental panel on pandemic risk | Nature Medicine
  • 05/24 I’m subject NL002-0060 and I’m dropping out of my COVID-19 vaccine trial | Science | AAAS
  • 05/24 Time to reconceptualise health systems - The Lancet
  • 05/25 Discovery sheds light on real-time evolution of immune system's 'antibody factories' - Medical Xpress
  • 05/25 COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Infections Reported to CDC — United States, January 1–April 30, 2021 | MMWR
  • 05/25 A patent waiver on COVID vaccines is right and fair - Nature
  • 05/25 Tissues, not blood, are where immune cells function - Nature
  • 05/25 Protecting Olympic Participants from Covid-19 — The Urgent Need for a Risk-Management Approach | NEJM
  • 05/25 Old vaccines for new infections: Exploiting innate immunity to control COVID-19 and prevent future pandemics | PNAS
  • 05/26 Covid-19: Variants are spreading in countries with low vaccination rates | The BMJ
  • 05/26 Count the cost of disability caused by COVID-19 - Nature
  • 05/26 The mini lungs and other organoids helping to beat COVID - Nature
  • 05/26 Had COVID? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime - Nature
  • 05/26 Incentives for Immunity — Strategies for Increasing Covid-19 Vaccine Uptake | NEJM
  • 05/27 Insufficient data on use of inhaled corticosteroids to treat COVID-19 | European Medicines Agency
  • 05/28 COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Infections Reported to CDC — United States, January 1–April 30, 2021 | MMWR
  • 05/28 Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection Survey, UK - Office for National Statistics
  • 05/29 As plan for new U.S. health agency to speed treatments takes shape, doubts remain | Science | AAAS
  • 05/31 A novel multi-epitope COVID-19 vaccine developed using reverse vaccinology - Medical News May 2021

    June 2021

  • 06/01 Direct action of SARS-CoV-2 on organs may cause exacerbated immune response in children - Medical Xpress
  • 06/01 India’s COVID crisis flags need to forecast variants - Nature
  • 06/01 Brazilian town experiment shows mass vaccination can wipe out COVID-19 | Science | AAAS
  • 06/01 Israel reports link between rare cases of heart inflammation and COVID-19 vaccination in young men | Science | AAAS
  • 06/01 SARS-CoV-2 vaccines for all but a single dose for COVID-19 survivors - EBioMedicine
  • 06/02 Protecting scientific freedoms to combat the COVID-19 pandemic - International Science Council
  • 06/02 Chart: Where Oxygen Need is Surging | Statista
  • 06/04 Come on, CDC, we need you | Science
  • 06/04 Six months of COVID vaccines: what 1.7 billion doses have taught scientists - Nature
  • 06/07 A ‘landmark’ trial to test mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 in Africa can’t get the coveted shots | Science | AAAS
  • 06/07 Would you have your DNA tested to predict how hard COVID-19 would strike? Should you? | Science | AAAS
  • 06/08 MERS-CoV just a few mutations away from becoming a pandemic threat - Medical Xpress
  • 06/08 How COVID-19 wreaks havoc on human lungs - Phys.og
  • 06/09 The four most urgent questions about long COVID - Nature
  • 06/09 COVID-19 vaccination and immune thrombocytopenia | Nature Medicine
  • 06/10 Does vaccinating adults stop kids from spreading COVID too? - Nature
  • 06/11 Hospitalization of Adolescents Aged 12–17 Years with Laboratory-Confirmed COVID-19 — COVID-NET, 14 States, March 1, 2020–April 24, 2021 | MMWR
  • 06/11 Decreases in COVID-19 Cases, Emergency Department Visits, Hospital Admissions, and Deaths Among Older Adults Following the Introduction of COVID-19 Vaccine — United States, September 6, 2020–May 1, 2021 | MMWR
  • 06/11 SARS-CoV-2 infection detected in a poodle living with a COVID-19 positive family - Medical News
  • 06/14 COVID-19 cases rise slightly across US | CIDRAP
  • 06/14 Spread of Delta COVID-19 variant slows UK reopening | CIDRAP
  • 06/14 A long-term perspective on immunity to COVID - Nature
  • 06/15 In Oman, fungal infection detected in some COVID-19 patients - Medical Xpress
  • 06/16 How the COVID pandemic is changing global science collaborations - Nature
  • 06/16 Research collaborations bring big rewards: the world needs more - Nature
  • 06/16 Monoclonal antibodies cut risk of dying from COVID-19—but only in some patients | Science | AAAS
  • 06/17 CureVac Comes Up Short | In the Pipeline
  • 06/17 Scientists find the highly transmissible delta variant in New York state - Medical Xpress
  • 06/18 Alarming COVID study indicates long-term loss of gray matter and other brain tissue - News Medical
  • 06/19 A beautiful idea: how COVAX has fallen short - The Lancet
  • 06/21 SARS-CoV-2 infections may trigger antibody responses against multiple virus proteins - Medical Xpress
  • 06/21 Has SARS-CoV-2 reached peak fitness? | Nature Medicine
  • 06/23 Officials see ‘likely association’ between Covid vaccines, rare heart condition - STAT
  • 06/25 Hybrid immunity | Science
  • 06/25 The Medical Students Who Shunned Fear and Dove Into COVID Care - Medscape
  • 06/25 Is one vaccine dose enough if you’ve had COVID? What the science says - Nature
  • 06/25 Why Uruguay lost control of COVID - Nature
  • 06/28 Emergence of measles during the COVID-19 pandemic threatens Pakistan’s children and the wider region | Nature Medicine
  • 06/29 How Dangerous Is the Delta Variant, and Will It Cause a COVID Surge in the U.S.? - Scientific American
  • 06/29 Weekly epidemiological update on COVID-19 - 29 June 2021
  • 06/30 Scientists identify 160 new drugs that could be repurposed against COVID-19 - Medical Xpress
  • 06/30 Confronting Our Next National Health Disaster — Long-Haul Covid | NEJM
  • 06/30 Brain changes from covid-19 may impact consciousness and cognition | New Scientist

    July 2021

  • 07/01 Hollowed-Out Public Health System Faces More Cuts Amid Virus | Kaiser Health News
  • 07/01 SARS-CoV-2 replication targets nasal ciliated cells early in COVID-19 infection - Medical Xpress
  • 07/01 Mix-and-match COVID vaccines: the case is growing, but questions remain - Nature
  • 07/01 Artificial Proteins Never Seen in the Natural World Are Becoming New COVID Vaccines and Medicines - Scientific American
  • 07/01 The Animal Viruses Most Likely to Jump into Humans - Scientific American
  • 07/02 Symptoms of Depression, Anxiety, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Suicidal Ideation Among State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Public Health Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic — United States, March–April 2021 | MMWR
  • 07/05 Science, not speculation, is essential to determine how SARS-CoV-2 reached humans - The Lancet
  • 07/06 India’s “Covaxin” vaccine shows high efficacy against COVID-19 infections in phase 3 trial | Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
  • 07/07 COVID and the brain: researchers zero in on how damage occurs - Nature
  • 07/07 COVID and schools: the evidence for reopening safely - Nature
  • 07/07 ‘Too good to be true’: Doubts swirl around trial that saw 77% reduction in COVID-19 mortality | Science | AAAS
  • 07/07 Mass infection is not an option: we must do more to protect our young - The Lancet
  • 07/08 'Long Haul' COVID Recovery Worse Than Cancer Rehab for Some: CDC - Medscape
  • 07/08 Will COVID become a disease of the young? - Nature
  • 07/08 A correlate of protection for SARS-CoV-2 vaccines is urgently needed | Nature Medicine
  • 07/08 Study highlights need for full Covid vaccination to protect against Delta - STAT
  • 07/09 Efficacy of Portable Air Cleaners and Masking for Reducing Indoor Exposure to Simulated Exhaled SARS-CoV-2 Aerosols — United States, 2021 | MMWR
  • 07/09 Use of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine After Reports of Myocarditis Among Vaccine Recipients: Update from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices — United States, June 2021 | MMWR
  • 07/09 Quarter-dose of Moderna COVID vaccine still rouses a big immune response - Nature
  • 07/12 The teachings of Long COVID | Communications Medicine
  • 07/13 The Case for Mandating COVID-19 Vaccines for Health Care Workers | Annals of Internal Medicine
  • 07/13 Multisociety Statement on COVID-19 Vaccination as a Condition of Employment for Healthcare Personnel | Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology | Cambridge Core
  • 07/15 Averting Future Vaccine Injustice | NEJM
  • 07/15 Should we be concerned about the SARS-CoV-2 Lambda variant?
  • 07/16 SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.2 (Delta) Variant COVID-19 Outbreak Associated with a Gymnastics Facility — Oklahoma, April–May 2021 | MMWR
  • 07/21 The known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns of COVID-19 - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
  • 07/21 How the Delta variant achieves its ultrafast spread - Nature
  • 07/23 Colleges need vaccine mandates | Science
  • 07/23 Scent of a vaccine | Science
  • 07/23 US COVID-19 hospital cases surge | CIDRAP
  • 07/23 Worsening COVID rise in Vietnam triggers expanded lockdowns | CIDRAP
  • 07/23 Scientists urge local mask mandates as Delta sweeps the U.S. - National Geographic
  • 07/27 The Crucial Vaccine Benefit We're Not Talking about Enough - Scientific American
  • 07/28 Unraveling the Mysterious Mutations That Make Delta the Most Transmissible Covid Virus Yet | Kaiser Health News
  • 07/28 Interim Public Health Recommendations for Fully Vaccinated People | CDC
  • 07/28 How the coronavirus infects cells — and why Delta is so dangerous - Nature
  • 07/28 The overlooked superpower of mRNA vaccines | Science | AAAS
  • 07/29 A blood marker predicts who gets ‘breakthrough’ COVID - Nature
  • 07/30 The road to addressing Long Covid | Science
  • 07/30 Guidance for Implementing COVID-19 Prevention Strategies in the Context of Varying Community Transmission Levels and Vaccination Coverage | MMWR
  • 07/30 COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Cases: Data from the States | KFF
  • 07/30 FDA plans ‘sprint’ to accelerate formal review of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine - STAT

    August 2021

  • 08/02 Text-message nudges encourage COVID vaccination - Nature
  • 08/02 Flawed ivermectin preprint highlights challenges of COVID drug studies - Nature
  • 08/03 Simplifying COVID Immunology, One Metaphor at a Time - Medscape
  • 08/04 Latest Data on COVID-19 Vaccinations by Race/Ethnicity | KFF
  • 08/05 This scientist says cleaning indoor air could make us healthier—and smarter | Science | AAAS
  • 08/06 Delta Variant: What We Know About the Science | CDC
  • 08/06 Outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 Infections, Including COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Infections, Associated with Large Public Gatherings — Barnstable County, Massachusetts, July 2021 | MMWR
  • 08/06 Reduced Risk of Reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 After COVID-19 Vaccination — Kentucky, May–June 2021 | MMWR
  • 08/06 Rapid Increase in Circulation of the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.2 (Delta) Variant — Mesa County, Colorado, April–June 2021 | MMWR
  • 08/06 Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccines in Preventing Hospitalization Among Adults Aged ≥65 Years — COVID-NET, 13 States, February–April 2021 | MMWR
  • 08/10 SARS-CoV-2 Iota variant increases mortality risk among older adults - Medical News
  • 08/11 Problems in thinking and attention linked to COVID-19 infection - Medical XPress
  • 08/12 Why Carefully Designed Public Vaccination Mandates Can—and Should—Withstand Constitutional Challenge - Lawfare
  • 08/12 How do vaccinated people spread Delta? What the science says - Nature
  • 08/13 Reduced Risk of Reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 After COVID-19 Vaccination — Kentucky, May–June 2021 | MMWR
  • 08/13 Rapid Increase in Circulation of the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.2 (Delta) Variant — Mesa County, Colorado, April–June 2021 | MMWR
  • 08/13 Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccines in Preventing Hospitalization Among Adults Aged ≥65 Years — COVID-NET, 13 States, February–April 2021 | MMWR
  • 08/16 Yes, Children Can Transmit COVID, but We Need Not Fear | Infectious Diseases | JAMA Pediatrics | JAMA Network
  • 08/16 A grim warning from Israel: Vaccination blunts, but does not defeat Delta | Science | AAAS
  • 08/17 The animal origin of SARS-CoV-2 | Science
  • 08/18 New COVID-19 Cases and Hospitalizations Among Adults, by Vaccination Status — New York, May 3–July 25, 2021 | MMWR
  • 08/18 Sustained Effectiveness of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Vaccines Against COVID-19 Associated Hospitalizations Among Adults — United States, March–July 2021 | MMWR
  • 08/18 Effectiveness of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Vaccines in Preventing SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Nursing Home Residents Before and During Widespread Circulation of the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.2 (Delta) Variant — National Healthcare Safety Network, March 1–August
  • 08/18 How does COVID-19 affect the brain? A troubling picture emerges. - National Geographic
  • 08/18 COVID-19 vaccines may trigger superimmunity in people who had SARS long ago | Science | AAAS
  • 08/19 The COVID-19 Delta Variant: This Map Provides Answers
  • 08/19 Delta’s rise is fuelled by rampant spread from people who feel fine - Nature
  • 08/19 New SARS-CoV-2 variants have changed the pandemic. What will the virus do next? | Science | AAAS
  • 08/19 New SARS-CoV-2 variants have changed the pandemic. What will the virus do next? | Science | AAAS
  • 08/20 Evolving threat | Science
  • 08/20 Evidence mounts that people with breakthrough infections can spread Delta easily - National Geographic
  • 08/20 The mutation that helps Delta spread like wildfire - Nature
  • 08/20 Why the coronavirus changed over time, and what it means going forward - STAT
  • 08/22 TWiV 796: The vary hungry spike with Paul and Theodora
  • 08/24 Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccines in Preventing SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Frontline Workers Before and During B.1.617.2 (Delta) Variant Predominance — Eight U.S. Locations, December 2020–August 2021 | MMWR
  • 08/24 SARS-CoV-2 Infections and Hospitalizations Among Persons Aged ≥16 Years, by Vaccination Status — Los Angeles County, California, May 1–July 25, 2021 | MMWR
  • 08/24 Weekly epidemiological update on COVID-19 - 24 August 2021 - WHO
  • 08/25 Origins of SARS-CoV-2: window is closing for key scientific studies - Nature
  • 08/25 Covid-19 vaccines flirted with perfection. Reality is more complicated - STAT
  • 08/26 Having SARS-CoV-2 once confers much greater immunity than a vaccine—but vaccination remains vital | Science | AAAS
  • 08/27 Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccines in Preventing SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Frontline Workers Before and During B.1.617.2 (Delta) Variant Predominance — Eight U.S. Locations, December 2020–August 2021 | MMWR
  • 08/27 SARS-CoV-2 Infections and Hospitalizations Among Persons Aged ≥16 Years, by Vaccination Status — Los Angeles County, California, May 1–July 25, 2021 | MMWR
  • 08/27 Colleges must require vaccination - Science
  • 08/27 Joint Statement of the Multilateral Leaders Taskforce on Scaling COVID-19 Tools - WHO
  • 08/28 Understanding long COVID: a modern medical challenge - The Lancet
  • 08/31 Strengthening Global Health Security and Reforming the International Health Regulations: Making the World Safer From Future Pandemics | Global Health | JAMA | JAMA Network
  • 08/31 The Race to Understand Post–COVID-19 Conditions | Annals of Internal Medicine
  • 08/31 Weekly epidemiological update on COVID-19 - 31 August 2021 - WHO

    September 2021

  • 09/01 expert reaction to preprint from the CLoCk study looking at long COVID in children | Science Media Centre
  • 09/01 First findings from world’s largest study on long COVID in children | Science Media Centre
  • 09/02 India’s DNA COVID vaccine is a world first – more are coming - Nature
  • 09/02 Why many scientists say it’s unlikely that SARS-CoV-2 originated from a ‘lab leak’ | Science | AAAS
  • 09/03 Multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2 in a University Outbreak After Spring Break — Chicago, Illinois, March–May 2021 | MMWR
  • 09/03 Screening Programs for SARS-CoV-2 Infections on a University Campus — Austin, Texas, September 30–November 30, 2020 | MMWR
  • 09/03 Outbreak Associated with SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.2 (Delta) Variant in an Elementary School — Marin County, California, May–June 2021 | MMWR
  • 09/03 Epidemiologically Linked COVID-19 Outbreaks at a Youth Camp and Men’s Conference — Illinois, June–July 2021 | MMWR
  • 09/03 Association Between COVID-19 and Myocarditis Using Hospital-Based Administrative Data — United States, March 2020–January 2021 | MMWR
  • 09/03 Trends in COVID-19 Cases, Emergency Department Visits, and Hospital Admissions Among Children and Adolescents Aged 0–17 Years — United States, August 2020–August 2021 | MMWR
  • 09/03 Hospitalizations Associated with COVID-19 Among Children and Adolescents — COVID-NET, 14 States, March 1, 2020–August 14, 2021 | MMWR
  • 09/06 SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.2 Delta variant replication and immune evasion | Nature
  • 09/07 Kids and COVID: why young immune systems are still on top - Nature
  • 09/07 Dose-dependent COVID-19 symptoms | Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • 09/07 United States boosts tracking of coronavirus strains as Mu variant draws scrutiny | Science | AAAS
  • 09/08 BirchEriksen.org ~ pandemics compared
  • 09/09 Long COVID and kidney disease | Nature Reviews Nephrology
  • 09/09 The next phase of SARS-CoV-2 surveillance: real-time molecular epidemiology | Nature Medicine
  • 09/10 Vaccines beat natural immunity in fight against COVID-19 | Hub
  • 09/10 Average COVID hospitalization is 150 times more expensive than vaccination - Medical XPress
  • 09/14 A Leading Virologist Reveals His Two 'Nightmare' Viruses - Medscape
  • 09/14 The tangled history of mRNA vaccines - Nature
  • 09/14 Negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on routine childhood immunization: experience from Pakistan | Nature Reviews Immunology
  • 09/15 Science Brief: COVID-19 Vaccines and Vaccination - CDC
  • 09/16 COVID-19 vaccines: Keeping pace with SARS-CoV-2 variants: Cell
  • 09/17 Disaggregating Data to Measure Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Outcomes and Guide Community Response — Hawaii, March 1, 2020–February 28, 2021 | MMWR
  • 09/17 Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Adults Aged ≥18 Years — Long Beach, California, April 1–December 10, 2020 | MMWR
  • 09/17 New COVID-19 Cases and Hospitalizations Among Adults, by Vaccination Status — New York, May 3–July 25, 2021 | MMWR
  • 09/17 Monitoring Incidence of COVID-19 Cases, Hospitalizations, and Deaths, by Vaccination Status — 13 U.S. Jurisdictions, April 4–July 17, 2021 | MMWR
  • 09/17 Interim Estimates of COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Against COVID-19–Associated Emergency Department or Urgent Care Clinic Encounters and Hospitalizations Among Adults During SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.2 (Delta) Variant Predominance — Nine States, June–August 2021 | MMWR
  • 09/17 Effectiveness of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19–Associated Hospitalization — Five Veterans Affairs Medical Centers, United States, February 1–August 6, 2021 | MMWR
  • 09/18 Counting the neurological cost of COVID-19 | Nature Reviews Neurology
  • 09/21 Israel’s struggles to contain COVID-19 may be a warning for other nations | Science | AAAS
  • 09/21 Johnson & Johnson says additional dose boosts Covid vaccine efficacy - STAT
  • 09/22 Microneedle patch delivers COVID-19 DNA vaccine, doesn't require cold storage - phys.org
  • 09/22 Wellcome Trust's Jeremy Farrar: 'Seeing the End of the Pandemic Is Premature' - Medscape
  • 09/22 Greece used AI to curb COVID: what other nations can learn - Nature
  • 09/22 A machine-learning algorithm to target COVID testing of travellers - Nature
  • 09/22 Efficient and targeted COVID-19 border testing via reinforcement learning | Nature
  • 09/22 The lesson of ivermectin: meta-analyses based on summary data alone are inherently unreliable | Nature Medicine
  • 09/23 Transition to endemicity: Understanding COVID-19: Immunity
  • 09/24 Comparative Effectiveness of Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech, and Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) Vaccines in Preventing COVID-19 Hospitalizations Among Adults Without Immunocompromising Conditions — United States, March–August 2021 | MMWR
  • 09/24 Outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.2 (Delta) Variant Infections Among Incarcerated Persons in a Federal Prison — Texas, July–August 2021 | MMWR
  • 09/25 Meta-Reviews Are Amplifying Bad And Even Fake Ivermectin Data, Researchers Warn - Science Alert
  • 09/25 Even Mild Cases of COVID May Leave a Mark on the Brain - Scientific American
  • 09/27 Closest known relatives of virus behind COVID-19 found in Laos - Nature
  • 09/27 Lung microbiota and COVID-19 severity | Nature Microbiology
  • 09/28 Getting Through COVID-19: Keeping Clinicians in the Workforce | Annals of Internal Medicine
  • 09/28 How COVID-19 can damage all five senses - National Geographic
  • 09/28 How the unvaccinated threaten the vaccinated for COVID-19: A Darwinian perspective | PNAS
  • 09/30 REGEN-COV lowers risk of COVID-19 hospital stay, death by 71% - CIDRAP
  • 09/30 Why We Need to Upgrade Our Face Masks--and Where to Get Them - Scientific American

    October 2021

  • 10/01 Association Between K–12 School Mask Policies and School-Associated COVID-19 Outbreaks — Maricopa and Pima Counties, Arizona, July–August 2021 | MMWR
  • 10/01 Pediatric COVID-19 Cases in Counties With and Without School Mask Requirements — United States, July 1–September 4, 2021 | MMWR
  • 10/01 Annex to Infection prevention and control during health care when coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is suspected or confirmed - WHO
  • 10/04 COVID-19 vaccination gives hope to eradicate polio | Nature Medicine
  • 10/05 COVID vaccines cut the risk of transmitting Delta — but not for long - Nature
  • 10/05 Trust in scientists in times of pandemic: Panel evidence from 12 countries | PNAS
  • 10/06 Real-world data show that filters clean COVID-causing virus from air - Nature
  • 10/06 No one is safe until we are all safe - Science
  • 10/07 Anti-SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain antibody evolution after mRNA vaccination | Nature
  • 10/07 Pandemic enters transition phase—but to what? - Science
  • 10/08 Multicomponent Strategies to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Transmission — Nine Overnight Youth Summer Camps, United States, June–August 2021 | MMWR
  • 10/08 COVID-19 Outbreaks at Youth Summer Camps — Louisiana, June–July 2021 | MMWR
  • 10/08 COVID-19 is linked to new diabetes cases—but long-term problems could be more severe - National Geographic
  • 10/08 Heart-inflammation risk from Pfizer COVID vaccine is very low - Nature
  • 10/08 How antiviral pill molnupiravir shot ahead in the COVID drug hunt - Nature
  • 10/11 Impact of circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants on mRNA vaccine-induced immunity | Nature
  • 10/13 ‘I hope you die’: how the COVID pandemic unleashed attacks on scientists - Nature
  • 10/13 COVID scientists in the public eye need protection from threats - Nature
  • 10/13 Merck's Covid pill could transform treatment. Here's how it works - STAT
  • 10/14 COVID super-immunity: one of the pandemic’s great puzzles - Nature
  • 10/14 China’s COVID vaccines have been crucial — now immunity is waning
  • 10/15 A new way to prevent COVID-related clots and a biomarker that spots who's at highest risk - Medical XPress
  • 10/15 Follow the FDA advisory panel meeting on the J&J Covid vaccine booster - STAT
  • 10/16 Extending a Lifeline to Nonhospitalized Patients With COVID-19 Through Automated Text Messaging | Annals of Internal Medicine
  • 10/18 Hospital COVID patients may owe thousands as insurance waivers end
  • 10/18 Exome sequencing and analysis of 454,787 UK Biobank participants | Nature
  • 10/19 A cancer survivor had the longest documented COVID-19 infection. Here’s what scientists learned | Science | AAAS
  • 10/20 Dr Ebony Hilton Wants to Talk Herself Out of a Job - Medscape
  • 10/20 Hybrid immunity improves B cells and antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 variants | Nature
  • 10/21 Immunogenicity and efficacy of heterologous ChadOx1/BNT162b2 vaccination | Nature
  • 10/21 Tackling the pandemic with (biased) data - Science
  • 10/21 Share vaccine know-how - Science
  • 10/22 Effectiveness of Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA Vaccination Against COVID-19 Hospitalization Among Persons Aged 12–18 Years — United States, June–September 2021 | MMWR
  • 10/24 China’s COVID vaccines have been crucial — now immunity is waning - Nature
  • 10/25 Evidence suggests SARS-CoV-2 virus attacks brain endothelial cells - Medical Xpress
  • 10/25 Clues that natural killer cells help to control COVID - Nature
  • 10/25 Cryptic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and the first COVID-19 wave | Nature
  • 10/26 Gain of Function | Science | AAAS
  • 10/28 What regulators must learn from COVID-19 | Nature Medicine
  • 10/28 Uncomfortable Truths — What Covid-19 Has Revealed about Chronic-Disease Care in America | NEJM
  • 10/29 We must call out childism in covid-19 policies | The BMJ
  • 10/29 Severity of Disease Among Adults Hospitalized with Laboratory-Confirmed COVID-19 Before and During the Period of SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.2 (Delta) Predominance — COVID-NET, 14 States, January–August 2021 | MMWR
  • 10/29 COVID-19 Vaccination and Non–COVID-19 Mortality Risk — Seven Integrated Health Care Organizations, United States, December 14, 2020–July 31, 2021 | MMWR
  • 10/29 What COVID vaccines for young kids could mean for the pandemic - Nature

    November 2021

  • 11/01 First reported US transmission of COVID from a pet owner to pets documented - phys.org
  • 11/01 The vaccine shots that rang around the world - Nature
  • 11/01 How conspiracists exploited COVID-19 science | Nature Human Behaviour
  • 11/02 Ivermectin-COVID-19 study retracted; authors blame file mixup – Retraction Watch
  • 11/02 Why scientists worldwide are watching UK COVID infections - Nature
  • 11/02 A Closer Look at the New Fluvoxamine Trial Data | The Scientist Magazine
  • 11/04 From mRNA sensing to vaccines: Immunity
  • 11/04 Children and COVID-19 in schools - Science
  • 11/04 Immunology meets the masses - Science
  • 11/05 Laboratory-Confirmed COVID-19 Among Adults Hospitalized with COVID-19–Like Illness with Infection-Induced or mRNA Vaccine-Induced SARS-CoV-2 Immunity — Nine States, January–September 2021 | MMWR
  • 11/05 Effectiveness of 2-Dose Vaccination with mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines Against COVID-19–Associated Hospitalizations Among Immunocompromised Adults — Nine States, January–September 2021 | MMWR
  • 11/05 Pfizer antiviral slashes COVID-19 hospitalizations | Science | AAAS
  • 11/05 Pfizer's Good News Is the World's Good News | Science | AAAS
  • 11/05 Experimental Pfizer pill prevents Covid hospitalizations and deaths - STAT
  • 11/08 How protein-based COVID vaccines could change the pandemic - Nature
  • 11/08 Monitoring key epidemiological parameters of SARS-CoV-2 transmission | Nature Medicine
  • 11/08 How an outbreak became a pandemic: a chronological analysis of crucial junctures and international obligations in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic - The Lancet
  • 11/10 Lions at Singapore wildlife park infected with coronavirus - phys.org
  • 11/10 COVID antiviral pills: what scientists still want to know - Nature
  • 11/10 Pre-existing polymerase-specific T cells expand in abortive seronegative SARS-CoV-2 | Nature
  • 11/11 COVID vaccinations for pets still not recommended, according to veterinarian - phys.org
  • 11/11 The Future of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination — Lessons from Influenza | NEJM
  • 11/12 Time to Simplify the COVID-19 Vaccine Policy - Authorize a Booster Dose for Anyone Who Wants One - HIV and ID Observations HIV and ID Observations - NEJM Journal Watch
  • 11/12 Novel coronavirus discovered in British bats - phys.org
  • 11/12 Covid-19: Germany’s doctors call for clear rules to “break chains of infection” as cases soar | The BMJ
  • 11/12 Progress Toward Regional Measles Elimination — Worldwide, 2000–2020 | MMWR
  • 11/12 Non-White race tied to higher risk for COVID infection, severity | CIDRAP
  • 11/16 Physician vacancies are at highest level in almost a decade, colleges find | The BMJ
  • 11/17 COVID-19 vaccination coverage among hospital-based healthcare personnel reported through the Department of Health and Human Services Unified Hospital Data Surveillance System, United States, January 20, 2021-September 15, 2021 - American Journal of Infection Control
  • 11/17 Millions of helpline calls reveal how COVID affected mental health - Nature
  • 11/17 Mental health concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic as revealed by helpline calls | Nature
  • 11/18 Europe’s COVID death toll could rise by hundreds of thousands - Nature
  • 11/18 Dissecting the early COVID-19 cases in Wuhan - Science
  • 11/18 COVID-19 vaccines for children - Science
  • 11/19 Incidence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection, Emergency Department Visits, and Hospitalizations Because of COVID-19 Among Persons Aged ≥12 Years, by COVID-19 Vaccination Status — Oregon and Washington, July 4–September 25, 2021 | MMWR
  • 11/19 FDA expands emergency authorization for Covid booster shots to all adults - STAT
  • 11/22 Pfizer says COVID shot 100% effective in adolescents after 4 months - Medical XPress
  • 11/22 Pfizer's Covid vaccine was 100% effective in kids in longer-term study - STAT
  • 11/23 How do death rates from COVID-19 differ between people who are vaccinated and those who are not? - Our World in Data
  • 11/23 Do vaccines protect against long COVID? What the data say - Nature
  • 11/23 A COVID-19 peptide vaccine for the induction of SARS-CoV-2 T cell immunity | Nature
  • 11/24 expert reaction to study looking at COVID infection risk as time increases after second Pfizer vaccine dose in Israel | Science Media Centre
  • 11/25 Heavily mutated Omicron variant puts scientists on alert - Nature
  • 11/25 Enhanced fusogenicity and pathogenicity of SARS-CoV-2 Delta P681R mutation | Nature
  • 11/26 Risk for Stillbirth Among Women With and Without COVID-19 at Delivery Hospitalization — United States, March 2020–September 2021 | MMWR
  • 11/26 COVID-19–Associated Deaths After SARS-CoV-2 Infection During Pregnancy — Mississippi, March 1, 2020–October 6, 2021 | MMWR
  • 11/26 Threat Assessment Brief: Implications of the emergence and spread of the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1. 529 variant of concern (Omicron) for the EU/EEA
  • 11/26 Immune dysregulation and immunopathology induced by SARS-CoV-2 and related coronaviruses — are we our own worst enemy? | Nature Reviews Immunology
  • 11/26 Frequently asked questions for the B.1.1.529 mutated SARS-CoV-2 lineage in South Africa - NICD
  • 11/26 Full article: The Contested Origin of SARS-CoV-2 - Taylor and Francis
  • 11/27 ‘Patience is crucial’: Why we won’t know for weeks how dangerous Omicron is | Science | AAAS
  • 11/29 Developing vaccines in 100 days - CEPI
  • 11/30 Japan confirms first case of new coronavirus variant - Medical XPress

    December 2021

  • 12/01 Where did ‘weird’ Omicron come from? | Science | AAAS
  • 12/02 Omicron-variant border bans ignore the evidence, say scientists - Nature
  • 12/02 ‘Just stupid stuff’: Logistics and lack of testing stymied finding the Omicron variant in the U.S. - STAT
  • 12/03 How COVID-19 harms the heart - National Geographic
  • 12/04 Tshwane District Omicron Variant Patient Profile - Early Features | South African Medical Research Council
  • 12/07 Beyond Omicron: what’s next for COVID’s viral evolution - Nature
  • 12/07 How bad is Omicron? Some clues are emerging, and they’re not encouraging - Science
  • 12/08 Denmark COVID surge leads to school closures, nightlife curbs - Medical XPress
  • 12/09 Track Omicron’s spread with molecular data - Science
  • 12/09 FDA expands authorization for Pfizer's Covid booster to cover some teens - STAT
  • 12/10 COVID-19 variants identified in the UK - GOV.UK
  • 12/10 Omicron can likely outcompete Delta, which would worsen Covid in U.S. - STAT
  • 12/13 Merck’s COVID pill loses its lustre: what that means for the pandemic - Nature
  • 12/14 SARS-CoV-2 protein interacts with Parkinson's protein, promotes amyloid formation - Medical XPress
  • 12/14 Pfizer's Covid pill remains 89% effective in final analysis, company says - STAT
  • 12/15 Universal Coronavirus Vaccines — An Urgent Need | NEJM
  • 12/15 Vaccines 2020: The era of the digital vaccine is here - Science
  • 12/15 • Chart: U.S. Hits 800,000 Covid Deaths 22 Months After the First | Statista
  • 12/16 How COVID vaccines shaped 2021 in eight powerful charts - Nature
  • 12/16 CDC advisers give preferential nod to mRNA shots over J&J Covid vaccine
  • 12/18 FACT FOCUS: Masks help curb spread of COVID-19 on planes - Medical XPress
  • 12/18 Covid-19 Vaccination in American Indians and Alaska Natives — Lessons from Effective Community Responses | NEJM
  • 12/20 Early lab studies hint Omicron may be milder. But most scientists reserve judgment | Science | AAAS
  • 12/21 Your seat on public transportation determines level of exposure to exhaled droplets - phys.org
  • 12/21 Omicron overpowers key COVID antibody treatments in early tests - Nature
  • 12/22 Omicron evades roughly twice the number of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies than Delta - News Medical
  • 12/23 COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough infections - Science
  • 12/27 CDC Updates and Shortens Recommended Isolation and Quarantine Period for General Population | CDC Online Newsroom | CDC
  • 12/27 Forecasting the Omicron winter: Experts envision various scenarios - STAT
  • 12/28 FDA Unveils Draft Guidance for SARS-CoV-2 Test Developers to Gain Full Regulatory Approval | Genomeweb
  • 12/29 Omicron variant largely resistant to current antibodies - Medical XPress
  • 12/31 Characteristics and Clinical Outcomes of Children and Adolescents Aged 18 Years Hospitalized with COVID-19 — Six Hospitals, United States, July–August 2021 | MMWR
  • 12/31 Investigation of a SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.529 (Omicron) Variant Cluster — Nebraska, November–December 2021 | MMWR

    January 2022

  • 01/01 The Immune Havoc of COVID-19 - Scientific American
  • 01/03 Covid-19: An urgent call for global “vaccines-plus” action | The BMJ
  • 01/05 Omicron’s feeble attack on the lungs could make it less dangerous - Nature
  • 01/06 3 bacteria in human gut may help defend against SARS-CoV-2 - Medical News Today
  • 01/06 COVID-19 may have killed nearly 3 million in India, far more than official counts show | Science | AAAS
  • 01/06 This scientist blew the whistle on Trump’s COVID-19 response—now he aims to stop future pandemics | Science | AAAS
  • 01/06 How Communication around COVID Fuels a Mistrust of Science - Scientific American
  • 01/07 Risk for Newly Diagnosed Diabetes 30 Days After SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Persons Aged 18 years — United States, March 1, 2020–June 28, 2021 | MMWR
  • 01/07 Rapid epidemic expansion of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in southern Africa - Nature
  • 01/10 expert reaction to reports of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 that combines characteristics of the delta and omicron variants | Science Media Centre
  • 01/11 ‘Killer’ immune cells still recognize Omicron variant - Nature
  • 01/12 Face masks cut distance airborne pathogens could travel in half, new study finds - Medical XPress
  • 01/12 The COVID generation: how is the pandemic affecting kids’ brains? - Nature
  • 01/13 Common cold coronaviruses hinder antibody immune response to SARS-CoV-2 infection - Medical XPress
  • 01/13 Omicron thwarts some of the world’s most-used COVID vaccines - Nature
  • 01/14 Viral load of omicron can be at its highest at day five so cutting isolation period doesn't make sense - Medical XPress
  • 01/14 Standards Required for the Development of CDC Evidence-Based Guidelines | MMWR
  • 01/18 The pandemic’s true death toll: millions more than official counts - Nature
  • 01/18 Discovering Paxlovid | Science | AAAS
  • 01/18 It’s not too late - Science
  • 01/19 How does Omicron spread so fast? A high viral load isn’t the answer - Nature
  • 01/19 COVID-19 will continue but the end of the pandemic is near - The Lancet
  • 01/20 Do vaccines protect from long COVID? - The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
  • 01/22 Study highlights the neurologic manifestations linked with COVID-19 in hospitalized children - Medical News
  • 01/22 Offline: COVID-19 as culture war - The Lancet
  • 01/23 Omicron 'sub-variant' throws up new virus questions - Medical Xpress
  • 01/24 COVID-19: endemic doesn’t mean harmless - Nature
  • 01/25 75% of COVID ICU survivors have physical symptoms 1 year on | CIDRAP
  • 01/25 Long-COVID symptoms less likely in vaccinated people, Israeli data say - Nature
  • 01/26 Identifying a new protein that enables SARS-CoV-2 access into cells - Medical Xpress
  • 01/26 World’s brightest x-rays reveal COVID-19’s damage to the body - National Geographic
  • 01/28 Crowd in Ontario cheers on anti-vaccine mandate truck convoy - Medical Xpress
  • 01/28 Effectiveness of a Third Dose of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Vaccines in Preventing COVID-19 Hospitalization Among Immunocompetent and Immunocompromised Adults — United States, August–December 2021 | MMWR
  • 01/28 COVID-19 Incidence and Death Rates Among Unvaccinated and Fully Vaccinated Adults with and Without Booster Doses During Periods of Delta and Omicron Variant Emergence — 25 U.S. Jurisdictions, April 4–December 25, 2021 | MMWR
  • 01/28 Effectiveness of a Third Dose of mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19–Associated Emergency Department and Urgent Care Encounters and Hospitalizations Among Adults During Periods of Delta and Omicron Variant Predominance — VISION Network, 10 States, August 2021–January 2022 | MMWR
  • 01/28 Trends in Disease Severity and Health Care Utilization During the Early Omicron Variant Period Compared with Previous SARS-CoV-2 High Transmission Periods — United States, December 2020–January 2022 | MMWR
  • 01/28 Superbugs were already on the rise. The pandemic likely made things worse.
  • 01/28 Three, four or more: what’s the magic number for booster shots? - Nature
  • 01/28 Social-media platforms failing to tackle abuse of scientists - Nature
  • 01/28 Where did Omicron come from? Three key theories - Nature
  • 01/28 Omicron, Its Mutations, and the Antibody Response | Science | AAAS
  • 01/31 Ten billion COVID vaccinations: world hits new milestone - Nature
  • 01/31 Sudden rise of more transmissible form of Omicron catches scientists by surprise | Science | AAAS

    February 2022

  • 02/01 COVID-19 caused second-largest infection mortality disaster in Switzerland, Sweden, and Spain since 1918 - Medical Xpress
  • 02/01 SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Hospitalization Among Adults Aged ≥18 Years, by Vaccination Status, Before and During SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.529 (Omicron) Variant Predominance — Los Angeles County, California, November 7, 2021–January 8, 2022 | MMWR
  • 02/01 Omicron Hospitalizations Up to 23 Times Higher for the Unvaccinated | MedPage Today
  • 02/02 What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity - Nature
  • 02/02 Scientists deliberately gave people COVID — here’s what they learnt - Nature
  • 02/03 South African scientists copy Moderna’s COVID vaccine - Nature
  • 02/04 Effectiveness of Face Mask or Respirator Use in Indoor Public Settings for Prevention of SARS-CoV-2 Infection — California, February–December 2021 | MMWR
  • 02/04 COVID-19 leading cause of death ranking - Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker
  • 02/04 Does Omicron hit kids harder? Scientists are trying to find out - Nature
  • 02/04 How Pfizer made an effective anti-covid pill | MIT Technology Review
  • 02/07 Covid-19: Past infection may not protect against future variants, researcher warns | The BMJ
  • 02/07 Omicron Boosters and Original Antigenic Sin | Science | AAAS
  • 02/08 Long COVID and kids: more research is urgently needed - Nature
  • 02/08 Tracking COVID-19 infections: time for change - Nature
  • 02/09 COVID-19 takes serious toll on heart health—a full year after recovery | Science | AAAS
  • 02/10 Tonga's virus outbreak growing rapidly; omicron confirmed - Medical XPress
  • 02/10 There Is Nothing Normal about One Million People Dead from COVID - Scientific American
  • 02/11 Genomic Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 Variants: Predominance of the Delta (B.1.617.2) and Omicron (B.1.1.529) Variants — United States, June 2021–January 2022 | MMWR
  • 02/11 Omicron's Surprising Anatomy Explains Why It Is Wildly Contagious - Scientific American
  • 02/12 Tip of the iceberg: erectile dysfunction and COVID-19 | International Journal of Impotence Research
  • 02/15 Communicate hope to motivate the public during the COVID-19 pandemic | Scientific Reports
  • 02/16 When Physicians Spread Unscientific Information About COVID-19 | Public Health | JAMA | JAMA Network
  • 02/16 Nearly half of Americans still unsure about popular vaccine misinformation - Medical XPress
  • 02/16 Antiviral drug protects hamsters against COVID-19 - Medical XPress
  • 02/16 WHO: New COVID cases drop by 19% globally, deaths stable - Medical XPress
  • 02/16 Pandemics disable people — the history lesson that policymakers ignore - Nature
  • 02/16 COVID-19 patients face higher risk of brain fog and depression, even 1 year after infection | Science | AAAS
  • 02/17 COVID Vaccines for the Under 5's: The 'Finish Line' We Need - Medscape
  • 02/17 More autopsy studies are needed to understand the pathogenesis of severe COVID-19 | Nature Medicine
  • 02/18 Data suggests pandemic fatalities much higher than estimated - MedicalXpress
  • 02/18 Multistate Outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.529 (Omicron) Variant Infections Among Persons in a Social Network Attending a Convention — New York City, November 18–December 20, 2021 | MMWR
  • 02/18 Investigation of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Associated With a Large Indoor Convention — New York City, November–December 2021 | MMWR
  • 02/18 Waning 2-Dose and 3-Dose Effectiveness of mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19–Associated Emergency Department and Urgent Care Encounters and Hospitalizations Among Adults During Periods of Delta and Omicron Variant Predominance — VISION Network, 10 States, August 2021–January 2022 | MMWR
  • 02/18 Effectiveness of Maternal Vaccination with mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine During Pregnancy Against COVID-19–Associated Hospitalization in Infants Aged 6 Months — 17 States, July 2021–January 2022 | MMWR
  • 02/18 Hospitalizations of Children and Adolescents with Laboratory-Confirmed COVID-19 — COVID-NET, 14 States, July 2021–January 2022 | MMWR
  • 02/22 Masks Cut Secondary SARS-CoV-2 Infections by Half | Infectious Diseases | JAMA | JAMA Network
  • 02/22 Commit to transparent COVID data until the WHO declares the pandemic is over - Nature
  • 02/23 Will a rising Omicron variant scramble antibody treatments? - Nature
  • 02/23 Fourth dose of COVID vaccine offers only slight boost against Omicron infection - Nature
  • 02/24 SARS-CoV-2 is moving between humans and wildlife around the US - MedicalXpress
  • 02/24 Omicron’s lasting mysteries: four questions scientists are racing to answer - Nature
  • 02/25 Antigen Test Positivity After COVID-19 Isolation — Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Region, Alaska, January–February 2022 | MMWR
  • 02/25 Results from a Test-to-Release from Isolation Strategy Among Fully Vaccinated National Football League Players and Staff Members with COVID-19 — United States, December 14–19, 2021 | MMWR
  • 02/25 Had Omicron? You're unlikely to catch its rising variant - Nature
  • 02/28 Do three new studies add up to proof of COVID-19’s origin in a Wuhan animal market? | Science | AAAS

    March 2022

  • 03/01 SARS-CoV-2-infected individuals could have different variants hidden in different parts of the body - MedicalXpress
  • 03/02 Two years of COVID-19 have created a second silent pandemic—one of grief - Medical XPress
  • 03/03 Antibody evasion properties of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron sublineages | Nature - Nature
  • 03/04 SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.529 (Omicron) Variant Transmission Within Households — Four U.S. Jurisdictions, November 2021–February 2022 | MMWR
  • 03/04 Safety Monitoring of COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Doses Among Persons Aged 12–17 Years — United States, December 9, 2021–February 20, 2022 | MMWR
  • 03/04 Effectiveness of COVID-19 Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2 mRNA Vaccination in Preventing COVID-19–Associated Emergency Department and Urgent Care Encounters and Hospitalizations Among Nonimmunocompromised Children and Adolescents Aged 5–17 Years — VISION Network, 10 States, April 2021–January 2022 | MMWR
  • 03/07 SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure in UK Biobank | Nature
  • 03/07 Whole genome sequencing reveals host factors underlying critical Covid-19 | Nature
  • 03/08 Even mild cases of COVID-19 can leave a mark on the brain, such as reductions in gray matter - Medical XPress
  • 03/08 Brain changes after COVID revealed by imaging - Nature
  • 03/09 Why Test to Treat is Imperative Now - Medscape
  • 03/09 COVID-19 Predicted to Boost Global Dementia Rates - Medscape
  • 03/10 Misinformation: susceptibility, spread, and interventions to immunize the public | Nature Medicine
  • 03/10 An epidemic of uncertainty: rumors, conspiracy theories and vaccine hesitancy | Nature Medicine
  • 03/10 “Back to normal” is not enough - Science
  • 03/11 SARS-CoV-2 Incidence in K–12 School Districts with Mask-Required Versus Mask-Optional Policies — Arkansas, August–October 2021 | MMWR
  • 03/14 Antigenic evolution will lead to new SARS-CoV-2 variants with unpredictable severity | Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • 03/14 Mechanisms of innate and adaptive immunity to the Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2 vaccine | Nature Immunology
  • 03/18 Covid-19: Is the UK heading for another omicron wave? | The BMJ
  • 03/18 Hospitalization of Infants and Children Aged 0–4 Years with Laboratory-Confirmed COVID-19 — COVID-NET, 14 States, March 2020–February 2022 | MMWR
  • 03/22 Evaluation of science advice during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
  • 03/22 Understanding Kids and COVID | PNAS
  • 03/22 Pharma executives shouldn't be driving Covid-19 vaccine policy - STAT
  • 03/23 This is no time to stop tracking COVID-19 - Nature
  • 03/23 Lessons from the COVID data wizards - Nature
  • 03/24 In the line of fire - Science
  • 03/25 Effectiveness of mRNA Vaccination in Preventing COVID-19–Associated Invasive Mechanical Ventilation and Death — United States, March 2021–January 2022 | MMWR
  • 03/25 COVID-19–Associated Hospitalizations Among Adults During SARS-CoV-2 Delta and Omicron Variant Predominance, by Race/Ethnicity and Vaccination Status — COVID-NET, 14 States, July 2021–January 2022 | MMWR
  • 03/25 Use of At-Home COVID-19 Tests — United States, August 23, 2021–March 12, 2022 | MMWR
  • 03/28 Will Omicron finally overpower China’s COVID defences? - Nature
  • 03/30 Pushed to Their Limits, 1 in 5 Physicians Intends to Leave Practice | Professional Well-being | JAMA | JAMA Network
  • 03/30 Into the wild: Animals the latest frontier in COVID fight - phys.org
  • 03/30 The quest to prevent MS — and understand other post-viral diseases - Nature
  • 03/30 The trillion dollar vaccine gap - Science
  • 03/30 Trial By Error: Can Someone Please Slap a Warning Label on this Exercise-and-Rehab Long Covid Study?

    April 2022

  • 04/01 Mental Health, Suicidality, and Connectedness Among High School Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic — Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey, United States, January–June 2021 | MMWR
  • 04/01 Effectiveness of Homologous and Heterologous COVID-19 Booster Doses Following 1 Ad.26.COV2.S (Janssen [Johnson & Johnson]) Vaccine Dose Against COVID-19–Associated Emergency Department and Urgent Care Encounters and Hospitalizations Among Adults — VISION Network, 10 States, December 2021–March 2022 | MMWR
  • 04/04 Study predicts COVID-19 deaths will rebound when all restrictions are lifted - Medical XPress
  • 04/04 Scientists uncover why long COVID can cause pain - Medical XPress
  • 04/04 New Subvariants in U.K., China; 'No Patient Left Alone'; Man Gets 90 COVID Vax Doses | MedPage Today
  • 04/04 Higher-profile COVID experts more likely to get online abuse - Nature
  • 04/05 Could computer models be the key to better COVID vaccines? - Nature
  • 04/06 Why the WHO took two years to say COVID is airborne - Nature
  • 04/07 Exports of an Indian COVID-19 vaccine halted after WHO finds problems at manufacturing plant | Science | AAAS
  • 04/08 Notes from the Field: SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant Infection in 10 Persons Within 90 Days of Previous SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant Infection — Four States, October 2021–January 2022 | MMWR
  • 04/08 Cardiac Complications After SARS-CoV-2 Infection and mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination — PCORnet, United States, January 2021–January 2022 | MMWR
  • 04/08 COVID-19 Mortality and Vaccine Coverage — Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China, January 6, 2022–March 21, 2022 | MMWR
  • 04/08 Eric Topol: 'I Still Have My Guard Up' - Medscape
  • 04/13 Study finds a consistent temporal association between mask use and COVID-19 vaccination status - Medical News
  • 04/15 Effectiveness of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination in Preventing COVID-19–Associated Hospitalization Among Adults with Previous SARS-CoV-2 Infection — United States, June 2021–February 2022 | MMWR
  • 04/15 Are new Omicron subvariants a threat? Here’s how scientists are keeping watch - Nature
  • 04/19 Pan-coronavirus vaccine pipeline takes form - Nature
  • 04/20 Four lessons from the pandemic to reboot the NIH - Nature
  • 04/22 Hospitalizations of Children Aged 5–11 Years with Laboratory-Confirmed COVID-19 — COVID-NET, 14 States, March 2020–February 2022 | MMWR
  • 04/22 Provisional Mortality Data — United States, 2021 | MMWR
  • 04/26 Seroprevalence of Infection-Induced SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies — United States, September 2021–February 2022 | MMWR
  • 04/26 With Omicron, nearly 60% in U.S. have been infected during pandemic - STAT
  • 04/27 The benefits of large scale covid-19 vaccination | The BMJ
  • 04/28 How Paxlovid came to be: From idea to a vital tool against Covid - STAT
  • 04/29 Seroprevalence of Infection-Induced SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies — United States, September 2021–February 2022 | MMWR

    May 2022

  • 05/02 Dog coronavirus jumps to humans, with a protein shift - Medical Xpress
  • 05/03 Cognitive impairment from severe COVID-19 equivalent to 20 years of ageing, study finds | University of Cambridge
  • 05/03 Nose Spray Vaccines Could Quash COVID Virus Variants - Scientific American
  • 05/05 Interferon therapy shows striking results against COVID-19 | Science | AAAS
  • 05/05 It ain’t over ’til it’s over - Science
  • 05/06 Effectiveness of a COVID-19 Additional Primary or Booster Vaccine Dose in Preventing SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Nursing Home Residents During Widespread Circulation of the Omicron Variant — United States, February 14–March 27, 2022 | MMWR
  • 05/06 Acute Hepatitis and Adenovirus Infection Among Children — Alabama, October 2021–February 2022 | MMWR
  • 05/06 Are COVID surges becoming more predictable? New Omicron variants offer a hint - Nature
  • 05/07 COVID-19: the next phase and beyond - The Lancet
  • 05/10 Bias Against the Willfully Unvaccinated | Annals of Internal Medicine
  • 05/10 New versions of Omicron are masters of immune evasion | Science | AAAS
  • 05/11 Coronavirus ‘ghosts’ found lingering in the gut - Nature
  • 05/12 Many long-COVID patients report symptoms 2 years later | CIDRAP
  • 05/12 Want to prevent pandemics? Stop spillovers - Nature
  • 05/18 Airborne viruses: The role of fit-tested N95 masks and HEPA filters - Medical News Today
  • 05/18 The pandemic’s true health cost: how much of our lives has COVID stolen? - Nature
  • 05/18 Physicians Spreading Misinformation on Social Media — Do Right and Wrong Answers Still Exist in Medicine? | NEJM
  • 05/23 COVID lessons from Japan: the right messaging empowers citizens - Nature
  • 05/24 Post–COVID Conditions Among Adult COVID-19 Survivors Aged 18–64 and ≥65 Years — United States, March 2020–November 2021 | MMWR
  • 05/26 Study finds sensory loss in ~100% of active COVID infections, which is twice as high as self-reports
  • 05/27 Post–COVID Conditions Among Adult COVID-19 Survivors Aged 18–64 and ≥65 Years — United States, March 2020–November 2021 | MMWR
  • 05/27 Why call it BA.2.12.1? A guide to the tangled Omicron family - Nature
  • 05/31 The black market for covid-19 antiviral drugs | The BMJ

    June 2022

  • 06/01 Challenges of Deciding Whether and How to Update COVID-19 Vaccines to Protect Against Variants | Vaccination | JAMA | JAMA Network
  • 06/01 WHO believes COVID getting worse, not better in North Korea - Medical XPress
  • 06/01 Estimated 2 million have long COVID in UK: official data - Medical XPress
  • 06/01 Vaccine hesitancy hardens in richer countries - Medical XPress
  • 06/01 Guardians of the brain: how a special immune system protects our grey matter - Nature
  • 06/06 Pandemic politics: People in Republican counties were more likely to die from COVID-19, new analysis shows - Medical Xpress
  • 06/07 Why this is no time to ease up on efforts to contain COVID-19 - Genetic Literacy Project
  • 06/10 Ventilation Improvement Strategies Among K–12 Public Schools — The National School COVID-19 Prevention Study, United States, February 14–March 27, 2022 | MMWR
  • 06/13 Nasal Vaccines Are Commercially High Risk, Perhaps High Reward | TS Digest | The Scientist
  • 06/15 How months-long COVID infections could seed dangerous new variants - Nature
  • 06/16 What causes Long Covid? Here are the three leading theories | Science | AAAS
  • 06/17 The covid waves continue to come | The BMJ
  • 06/20 How common is long COVID? Why studies give different answers - Nature
  • 06/22 The dogs learning to sniff out disease - Nature
  • 06/23 What Omicron’s BA.4 and BA.5 variants mean for the pandemic - Nature
  • 06/24 Dispensing of Oral Antiviral Drugs for Treatment of COVID-19 by Zip Code–Level Social Vulnerability — United States, December 23, 2021–May 21, 2022 | MMWR
  • 06/24 Hospitalization and Emergency Department Encounters for COVID-19 After Paxlovid Treatment — California, December 2021–May 2022 | MMWR
  • 06/24 COVID-19 could put us at a greater risk of neurodegenerative diseases and stroke | BBC Science Focus Magazine
  • 06/28 COVID was twice as deadly in poorer countries - Nature
  • 06/28 Covid-19: What are the risks of catching the virus multiple times? | New Scientist
  • 06/29 Bad news for Paxlovid? Coronavirus can find multiple ways to evade COVID-19 drug | Science | AAAS
  • 06/30 The hiatus of the handshake - Science

    July 2022

  • 07/07 Experts Urge Caution in Rushing to Define Long COVID | MedPage Today
  • 07/08 Factors Associated with Severe Outcomes Among Immunocompromised Adults Hospitalized for COVID-19 — COVID-NET, 10 States, March 2020–February 2022 | MMWR
  • 07/08 What to Know About the New BA.2.75 Omicron Subvariant | MedPage Today
  • 07/11 COVID Brain Problems May Stem From Attack on Endothelial Cells | MedPage Today
  • 07/11 Paxlovid Resistance: Is It Just a Matter of Time Now? | Science | AAAS
  • 07/15 Effectiveness of 2, 3, and 4 COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Doses Among Immunocompetent Adults During Periods when SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1 and BA.2/BA.2.12.1 Sublineages Predominated — VISION Network, 10 States, December 2021–June 2022 | MMWR
  • 07/15 One coronavirus infection wards off another — but only if it’s a similar variant - Nature
  • 07/18 Addressing Well-being Throughout the Health Care Workforce: The Next Imperative | Health Care Workforce | JAMA | JAMA Network
  • 07/18 The NHS is not living with covid, it’s dying from it | The BMJ
  • 07/20 COVID vaccines averted infection in 10% of patient-facing healthcare staff during second wave - Medical Xpress
  • 07/20 How effective are masks during a COVID wave? - Medical Xpress
  • 07/21 Operation Nasal Vaccine—Lightning speed to counter COVID-19 | Science Immunology
  • 07/22 Effectiveness of 2, 3, and 4 COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Doses Among Immunocompetent Adults During Periods when SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1 and BA.2/BA.2.12.1 Sublineages Predominated — VISION Network, 10 States, December 2021–June 2022 | MMWR
  • 07/22 Evusheld protects the vulnerable from Covid. Why are so few using it? - STAT
  • 07/25 White House to launch effort to develop next generation of Covid vaccines - STAT
  • 07/26 How long is COVID infectious? What scientists know so far - Nature
  • 07/27 Why efforts to make better, more universal coronavirus vaccines are struggling | Science | AAAS
  • 07/27 Can we get better Covid vaccines? There are big hurdles, but some hope - STAT
  • 07/29 Safety Monitoring of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Second Booster Doses Among Adults Aged ≥50 Years — United States, March 29, 2022–July 10, 2022 | MMWR

    August 2022

  • 08/02 Heart disease after COVID: what the data say - Nature
  • 08/04 1 In 8 COVID Patients Likely to Develop Long COVID: Large Study - Medscape
  • 08/05 COVID-19 infection in crucial brain regions may lead to accelerated brain aging - Medical Xpress
  • 08/05 Study finds full-occupancy, in-person teaching did not lead to SARS-CoV-2 in-class transmission at Boston University - Medical XPress
  • 08/05 Post–COVID-19 Symptoms and Conditions Among Children and Adolescents — United States, March 1, 2020–January 31, 2022 | MMWR
  • 08/09 Long-COVID treatments: why the world is still waiting - Nature
  • 08/10 Scientists discover antibodies that induce broad immunity against SARS viruses, including emerging variants - Medical XPress
  • 08/10 Will ‘Centaurus’ be the next global coronavirus variant? Indian cases offers clues - Nature
  • 08/12 COVID-19 Self-Test Data: Challenges and Opportunities — United States, October 31, 2021–June 11, 2022 | MMWR
  • 08/15 Despite awareness of COVID-19 risks, many Americans say they're back to 'normal' - Medical XPress
  • 08/15 Healthcare Workers Who Wear Better Masks Get Less COVID | MedPage Today
  • 08/16 Blood abnormalities found in people with Long Covid | Science | AAAS
  • 08/17 How much virus does a person with COVID exhale? New research has answers - Nature
  • 08/18 Where did the pandemic start? Anywhere but here, argue papers by Chinese scientists echoing party line | Science | AAAS
  • 08/19 Safety Monitoring of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Doses Among Children Aged 5–11 Years — United States, May 17–July 31, 2022 | MMWR
  • 08/19 COVID-19 Outbreaks and Mortality Among Public Transportation Workers — California, January 2020–May 2022 | MMWR
  • 08/19 Which COVID boosters to take and when: a guide for the perplexed - Nature
  • 08/24 Could tiny blood clots cause long COVID’s puzzling symptoms? - Nature
  • 08/25 Wildlife trade is likely the source of SARS-CoV-2 | Science
  • 08/29 Scientists question Moderna invention claim in COVID-19 vaccine dispute | Science | AAAS
  • 08/30 Omicron booster shots are coming—with lots of questions | Science | AAAS
  • 08/31 How covid-19 spreads: narratives, counter narratives, and social dramas | The BMJ
  • 08/31 Covid-19 Vaccines — Immunity, Variants, Boosters | NEJM

    September 2022

  • 09/01 New Omicron-specific vaccines offer similar protection to existing boosters - Nature
  • 09/01 Lots of long COVID treatment leads, but few are proven | PNAS
  • 09/05 Peer review fail: Vaccine publishes antivax propaganda disguised as “reanalyses” of Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial data | Science-Based Medicine
  • 09/06 How nasal-spray vaccines could change the pandemic - Nature
  • 09/06 Pfizer isn’t sharing Covid vaccines with researchers for next-gen studies
  • 09/07 Vitamin D Failed to Stop COVID, Other Respiratory Infections | MedPage Today
  • 09/07 What scientists have learnt from COVID lockdowns - Nature
  • 09/08 Understanding myalgic encephalomyelitis | Science
  • 09/08 COVID-19 and children | Science
  • 09/09 We Are Failing to Use What We've Learned About COVID - Medscape
  • 09/13 Risk factor for developing Alzheimer's disease increases by 50-80% in older adults who have had COVID-19 - Medical XPress
  • 09/13 40% of COVID pneumonia patients still had lung problems at 1 year | CIDRAP
  • 09/14 Inside the US Supreme Court’s war on science - Nature
  • 09/14 The Lancet Commission on lessons for the future from the COVID-19 pandemic - The Lancet
  • 09/15 COVID-19: One in three infected, unvaccinated people no longer have detectable antibodies one year after infection - Medical XPress
  • 09/15 Vax Protection Fades Fast Against BA.4/5-Related Hospitalizations | MedPage Today
  • 09/16 Mortality Risk Among Patients Hospitalized Primarily for COVID-19 During the Omicron and Delta Variant Pandemic Periods — United States, April 2020–June 2022 | MMWR
  • 09/18 COVID-19 increases risk of developing Alzheimer's by 50-80% in older adults - News-Medical
  • 09/19 Francis Collins on trust in science and how Covid communications failed - STAT
  • 09/21 How “long covid” is shedding light on postviral syndromes | The BMJ
  • 09/21 US healthcare workers more emotionally exhausted amid pandemic | CIDRAP
  • 09/22 COVID-19 infections increase risk of long-term brain problems - Medical XPress
  • 09/22 Long covid—an update for primary care | The BMJ
  • 09/22 Signs of autoimmune disease, difficulty exercising noted 1 year after COVID | CIDRAP
  • 09/22 COVID-19 infection may increase risk of type | EurekAlert!
  • 09/26 Often overlooked, molecules called glycans regulate COVID-19 spike protein function - phys.org
  • 09/26 These scientists traced a new coronavirus lineage to one office — through sewage - Nature
  • 09/27 As few as 1 in 5 COVID cases may have been counted worldwide, mathematical models suggest - Medical XPress
  • 09/27 Similar medications cost more for humans than for pets - Medical XPress
  • 09/27 Double-Blind | Annals of Internal Medicine
  • 09/27 Big COVID-19 waves may be coming, new Omicron strains suggest | Science | AAAS
  • 09/28 Healthcare Workers Unhappy With New CDC Mask Guidance | MedPage Today

    October 2022

  • 10/03 APIC Urges IPs to Continue Universal Masking in Patient Care Areas - APIC
  • 10/03 Emergency department crowding hits crisis levels, risking patient safety - Medical XPress
  • 10/06 Large JAMA study reports very low incidence o | EurekAlert!
  • 10/06 Under new rules, patients can now access all their health records digitally - STAT
  • 10/10 Survey finds more than 40% of Americans misled others about having COVID-19 and use of precautions - Medical Xpress
  • 10/13 Uptick in COVID-Related Blood Clots: Is It Real? | MedPage Today
  • 10/13 How We Create--Then Blame--A Viral Underclass - Medscape
  • 10/13 Remember, do no harm? | Science
  • 10/14 How SARS-CoV-2 battles our immune system | Science | AAAS
  • 10/17 We're in the dark on vaccine uptake by age
  • 10/17 The U.S. Just Lost 26 Years' Worth of Progress on Life Expectancy - Scientific American
  • 10/17 Researchers’ tests of lab-made version of Covid virus draw scrutiny - STAT
  • 10/17 CDC: Signs point to an early start for flu season - STAT
  • 10/20 What next for covid-19 vaccines? | The BMJ
  • 10/20 Should People Be More Worried About Long COVID? - Medscape
  • 10/21 Effectiveness of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19–Associated Hospitalizations Among Immunocompromised Adults During SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Predominance — VISION Network, 10 States, December 2021—August 2022 | MMWR
  • 10/23 Sterilizing immunity: Understanding COVID-19: Immunity
  • 10/28 COVID ‘variant soup’ is making winter surges hard to predict - Nature
  • 10/28 Conduct probe exonerates scientist accused of obscuring pandemic’s origin | Science | AAAS
  • 10/31 Could a nose spray a day keep COVID away? - Nature
  • 10/31 A soup of omicron subvariants could drive the next covid-19 wave | New Scientist

    November 2022

  • 11/01 Which Animals Catch COVID? This Database Has Dozens of Species and Counting - Scientific American
  • 11/04 Pfizer, BioNTech report bivalent Covid-19 booster more protective than original - STAT
  • 11/10 Repeat COVID-19 infections increase risk of organ failure, death – Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
  • 11/11 Long COVID and Me: A True Story - HealIO
  • 11/11 DNA is providing new clues to why COVID-19 hits people differently - Science News
  • 11/14 The Body of Evidence for Paxlovid Therapy - Medscape
  • 11/14 Moderna says its boosters do well against Omicron variants - STAT
  • 11/17 COVID-19 vaccination and menstruation | Science
  • 11/18 Perception of Local COVID-19 Transmission and Use of Preventive Behaviors Among Adults with Recent SARS-CoV-2 Infection — Illinois and Michigan, June 1–July 31, 2022 | MMWR
  • 11/18 Competition between respiratory viruses may hold off a ‘tripledemic’ this winter | Science | AAAS
  • 11/19 Offline: COVID-19—the lessons that science forgot - The Lancet
  • 11/22 Include community prevention efforts to fight the tripledemic - STAT
  • 11/23 How We Can Err if We Rely on Randomized Controlled Trials - Medscape
  • 11/24 Endosomes, receptors, and viruses | Science
  • 11/28 Avian Flu Diary: China At The Pandemic Crossroads
  • 11/30 Why Do Vaccinated People Represent Most COVID-19 Deaths Right Now? | KFF

    December 2022

  • 12/01 NIH VideoCast - Interpreting the Evolution of SARS-CoV-2
  • 12/02 SARS-CoV-2 Serology and Self-Reported Infection Among Adults — National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, United States, August 2021–May 2022 | MMWR
  • 12/02 Paxlovid Associated with Decreased Hospitalization Rate Among Adults with COVID-19 — United States, April–September 2022 | MMWR
  • 12/05 Severe COVID could cause markers of old age in the brain - Nature
  • 12/06 Science Brief: Community Use of Masks to Control the Spread of SARS-CoV-2 | CDC
  • 12/08 A physician makes his final rounds as a public servant | Science | AAAS
  • 12/14 Missing data mean we’ll probably never know how many people died of COVID - Nature
  • 12/14 Moderna And Merck (Revised!) | Science | AAAS
  • 12/15 A new omicron subvariant is spreading in China. Here's what we know so far. | Live Science
  • 12/16 Early Estimates of Bivalent mRNA Vaccine Effectiveness in Preventing COVID-19–Associated Emergency Department or Urgent Care Encounters and Hospitalizations Among Immunocompetent Adults — VISION Network, Nine States, September–November 2022 | MMWR
  • 12/16 Early Estimates of Bivalent mRNA Vaccine Effectiveness in Preventing COVID-19–Associated Hospitalization Among Immunocompetent Adults Aged ≥65 Years — IVY Network, 18 States, September 8–November 30, 2022 | MMWR
  • 12/16 US flu activity shows signs of declining; COVID indicators mixed | CIDRAP
  • 12/20 KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor: December 2022 | KFF
  • 12/20 SARS-CoV-2 structural proteins trigger periodontal fibrosis - News-Medical
  • 12/16 Early Estimates of Bivalent mRNA Vaccine Effectiveness in Preventing COVID-19–Associated Hospitalization Among Immunocompetent Adults Aged ≥65 Years — IVY Network, 18 States, September 8–November 30, 2022 | MMWR
  • 12/22 To Stop COVID, We Must Clean Up Our Air - Medscape
  • 12/22 To Stop COVID, We Must Clean Up Our Air - Medscape
  • 12/26 Autopsies Show COVID-19 in the Brain | MedPage Today

    January 2023

  • 01/03 COVID drug Paxlovid was hailed as a game-changer. What happened? - Nature
  • 01/03 China is flying blind as pandemic rages | Science | AAAS
  • 01/04 Large COVID autopsy study finds SARS-CoV-2 all over the human body - New Atlas
  • 01/05 Wastewater surveillance for public health | Science
  • 01/05 A new paradigm is needed to explain long COVID - The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
  • 01/06 What we now know about long COVID and our brains | Pursuit by The University of Melbourne
  • 01/09 Coronavirus variant XBB.1.5 rises in the United States — is it a global threat? - Nature
  • 01/11 Most long COVID effects resolve within a year after mild infection, finds study - Medical Xpress
  • 01/12 Trial settles debate over best design for mRNA in COVID vaccines - Nature
  • 01/13 Trial finds that fluvoxamine doesn't speed COVID recovery | CIDRAP
  • 01/14 The COVID-19 pandemic in 2023: far from over - The Lancet
  • 01/18 China's COVID cases may have hit 900 million. What's headed our way? - Medical Xpress
  • 01/18 COVID-19 patients retain elevated risk of death for at least 18 months after infection, finds large-scale study - Medical Xpress
  • 01/18 How your first brush with COVID warps your immunity - Nature
  • 01/25 Q&A With Long COVID Patient, Researcher: Treatments Lagging - MedScape
  • 01/26 COVID Virus Ventures Beyond the Lungs, Often Lodging in the Brain - DNA Science
  • 01/26 ‘Microclots’ could help solve the long COVID puzzle - National Geographic
  • 01/26 Tracking the meeting of the FDA advisory panel on Covid vaccines - STAT
  • 01/27 Researchers take a closer look at what COVID-19 does to the heart - Medical Xpress
  • 01/27 Report highlights cost of misinformation to health care services during COVID-19 pandemic - Medical Xpress
  • 01/31 White House COVID Chief on Why Paxlovid Is Underused - MedScape

    February 2023

  • 02/01 The next generation of coronavirus vaccines: a graphical guide - Nature
  • 02/02 How quickly does COVID immunity fade? What scientists know - Nature
  • 02/02 Facing the New Covid-19 Reality | NEJM
  • 02/02 Gaslighting Long Haulers | OpenMind Magazine
  • 02/02 The NIH-led research response to COVID-19 | Science
  • 02/03 Key articles on origins of Covid-19, gain-of-function research and biolabs - U.S. Right to Know
  • 02/03 COVID-19 Mortality and Progress Toward Vaccinating Older Adults — World Health Organization, Worldwide, 2020–2022 | MMWR
  • 02/03 Early Estimates of Bivalent mRNA Booster Dose Vaccine Effectiveness in Preventing Symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection Attributable to Omicron BA.5– and XBB/XBB.1.5–Related Sublineages Among Immunocompetent Adults — Increasing Community Access to Testing Program, United States, December 2022–January 2023 | MMWR
  • 02/03 Information for Persons Who Are Immunocompromised Regarding Prevention and Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in the Context of Currently Circulating Omicron Sublineages — United States, January 2023 | MMWR
  • 02/07 Is it bad, is it good, or is IgG4 just misunderstood? | Science Immunology
  • 02/08 Should Future COVID Boosters Include the Ancestral Strain? | MedPage Today
  • 02/10 COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality Among Unvaccinated and Vaccinated Persons Aged ≥12 Years by Receipt of Bivalent Booster Doses and Time Since Vaccination — 24 U.S. Jurisdictions, October 3, 2021–December 24, 2022 | MMWR
  • 02/14 Why we need a deeper understanding of the pathophysiology of long COVID - The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • 02/15 COVID's aftermath: Persistent organ damage at 1 year, lung abnormalities at 2 | CIDRAP
  • 02/15 Organ damage for 59% of patients with long COVID continues a year after initial symptoms - Royal Society of Medicine
  • 02/16 The haunting brain science of long Covid - STAT
  • 02/16 A clinical case definition for post COVID-19 condition in children and adolescents by expert consensus, 16 February 2023 - WHO
  • 02/20 The Ethics of Clinical Research: Managing Persistent Uncertainty | Research, Methods, Statistics | JAMA | JAMA Network
  • 02/23 Higher Dose of Ivermectin, and for Longer, Still No Help Against COVID | MedPage Today
  • 02/24 Effect of Predeparture Testing on Postarrival SARS-CoV-2–Positive Test Results Among International Travelers — CDC Traveler-Based Genomic Surveillance Program, Four U.S. Airports, March–September 2022 | MMWR
  • 02/24 Notes from the Field: Aircraft Wastewater Surveillance for Early Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Variants — John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City, August–September 2022 | MMWR
  • 02/27 Of those with long COVID at 4 months, 84% of hospital COVID patients in Sweden still had symptoms at 2 years | CIDRAP
  • 02/28 Impact of covid-19 vaccination on long covid | BMJ Medicine

    March 2023

  • 03/01 Financing covid-19 mRNA vaccines | The BMJ
  • 03/01 Long COVID Now Looks like a Neurological Disease, Helping Doctors to Focus Treatments - Scientific American
  • 03/03 COVID pill is first to cut short positive-test time after infection - Nature
  • 03/03 Lab-Leak Intelligence Reports Aren't Scientific Conclusions - Scientific American
  • 03/04 Healing Long Covid: a marathon not a sprint - The Lancet
  • 03/06 After Severe COVID, Cognitive Trajectories Go One of Three Ways | MedPage Today
  • 03/07 Indoor air is full of flu and COVID viruses. Will countries clean it up? - Nature
  • 03/08 Almost Half of All Public Health Workers Left Their Jobs Over the Past 5 Years | MedPage Today
  • 03/09 Study shows New York City rats carry SARS-CoV-2 - Medical XPress
  • 03/09 Identifying animal viruses in humans | Science
  • 03/11 Long COVID: 3 years in - The Lancet
  • 03/13 Even Mild COVID Can Cause Brain Shrinkage and Affect Mental Function - Neuroscience News
  • 03/13 Venous blood clots rare among COVID-19 outpatients, study finds | CIDRAP
  • 03/14 COVID and the Heart: It Spares No One | Johns Hopkins | Bloomberg School of Public Health
  • 03/15 Potential recombination between SARS-CoV-2 and MERS-CoV: calls for the development of Pan-CoV vaccines | Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy - Nature
  • 03/16 Unearthed genetic sequences from China market may point to animal origin of COVID-19 | Science | AAAS
  • 03/16 FDA stays mum on question of spring boosters for Covid - STAT
  • 03/17 ‘It’s inexcusable.’ WHO blasts China for not disclosing potential data on COVID-19’s origin | Science | AAAS
  • 03/17 New Evidence Supports Animal Origin of COVID Virus through Raccoon Dogs - Scientific American
  • 03/20 5,000 US COVID deaths may have been averted in winter 2022 under higher Paxlovid use | CIDRAP
  • 03/21 A new pandemic origin report is stirring controversy. Here are key takeaways | Science | AAAS
  • 03/21 People who catch Omicron are less likely to get Long Covid | Science | AAAS
  • 03/22 Emergence and persistency of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2.3.7 in Taiwan | News-Medical
  • 03/27 How an early mutation in the COVID-19 virus helped it spread so quickly - phys.org
  • 03/28 Long COVID Neurologic Symptoms Vary Based on Severity of Initial Infection | MedPage Today
  • 03/31 Long COVID exercise trials proposed by NIH raise alarm - Nature

    April 2023

  • 04/13 The Promise of the $5 Billion Investment in 'Project Next Gen' | MedPage Today
  • 04/13 Had COVID? Part of the Virus May Stick Around in Your Brain
  • 04/15 Health Care Systems Unlikely to Stop Masking Despite New Guidelines - AJMC
  • 04/17 COVID vaccines saved at least 1 million lives in Europe, experts estimate | CIDRAP
  • 04/18 How a rural school teacher became a top COVID sleuth - Nature
  • 04/19 The ‘invented persona’ behind a key pandemic database | Science | AAAS
  • 04/20 The NIH poured $1 billion into long Covid research, with little to show for it - STAT
  • 04/21 WHO elevates XBB.1.16 to variant of interest as levels rise in US and other countries | CIDRAP
  • 04/23 New Study: COVID-19 Omicron Variant Is More Deadly Than the Seasonal Flu - SciTech Daily
  • 04/24 Chronicling the failures of the U.S. response to Covid - STAT
  • 04/26 Are repeat COVID infections dangerous? What the science says - Nature
  • 04/27 Long-COVID patients show abnormal brain activity on MRI while doing memory tasks | CIDRAP

    May 2023

  • 05/01 Study of Novavax COVID vaccine estimates 100% efficacy against hospitalizations | CIDRAP
  • 05/01 COVID’s future: mini-waves rather than seasonal surges - Nature
  • 05/02 Why Is One Dose Suddenly Enough for the mRNA COVID Vaccines? | MedPage Today
  • 05/02 Do masks work? RCTs can't tell us - STAT
  • 05/03 Long COVID: The Persistence of SARS-CoV-2 in the Mucous Membranes May Be A Factor - Inserm Newsroom
  • 05/04 New hospital data highlight rise in healthcare-associated infections during COVID | CIDRAP
  • 05/04 GISAID in crisis: can the controversial COVID genome database survive? - Nature
  • 05/05 Provisional Mortality Data — United States, 2022 | MMWR
  • 05/05 COVID-19 Mortality Update — United States, 2022 | MMWR
  • 05/05 ‘It’s still killing and it’s still changing.’ Ending COVID-19 states of emergency sparks debate | Science | AAAS
  • 05/05 WHO declares end to Covid global health emergency - STAT
  • 05/08 Paxlovid slashed risk of COVID hospital stay in some patients amid Omicron, study suggests | CIDRAP
  • 05/08 Does end of emergencies mean Covid pandemic is over? - STAT
  • 05/09 Clinical Trials: Top Priority for Long COVID - Medscape
  • 05/09 Toward Comprehensive Care for Long Covid | NEJM
  • 05/12 COVID-19 Surveillance After Expiration of the Public Health Emergency Declaration ― United States, May 11, 2023 | MMWR
  • 05/13 Could Low Vitamin D Influence Long-COVID Risk? - Neuroscience News
  • 05/14 Are We Ready for the Long COVID Long-Haul? | MedPage Today
  • 05/15 Unable to walk and housebound at the age of 12 – the extreme consequences of long COVID - WHO
  • 05/16 Long-COVID's crippling aftermath: Study reveals persistent symptoms severely impact quality of life, especially in women - News-Medical
  • 05/17 Heart Transplants From Active COVID Donors Linked With Higher Mortality | MedPage Today
  • 05/18 WHO advisers recommend switch to monovalent XBB COVID vaccine | CIDRAP
  • 05/18 Statement on the antigen composition of COVID-19 vaccines
  • 05/21 Long COVID Seems to Make Distinct Changes to The Immune System : ScienceAlert
  • 05/22 Diagnosis of type 1 diabetes after SARS-CoV-2 infection: Researchers find possible correlation - Medical Xpress
  • 05/22 No time for complacency on COVID-19 in Europe - The Lancet
  • 05/23 COVID-19 vaccination reduces mortality in critically ill patients - Medical XPress
  • 05/23 COVID-19 vaccines may undergo major overhaul this fall | Science | AAAS
  • 05/25 Risk of new post-COVID mental disorders higher only in older patients, study suggests | CIDRAP
  • 05/26 Whether causing the common cold or COVID-19, coronaviruses deploy key enzymes to elude human immune response - Medical XPress
  • 05/28 Medical row in France over unauthorised COVID trial - Medical XPress
  • 05/30 1 in 10 People Get Long COVID After Omicron | The Transmission | University of Nebraska Medical Center
  • 05/31 'Lab-on-a-chip' can tell the difference between COVID and the flu - Phys.org
  • 05/31 COVID-19 and thyroid dysfunction: Study finds link - Medical News Today
  • 05/31 Long COVID Cognitive, Depressive Symptoms Tied to Brain Inflammation Marker | MedPage Today

    June 2023

  • 06/01 Global plan for dealing with next pandemic just got weaker, critics say - Nature
  • 06/02 Estimates of SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence and Incidence of Primary SARS-CoV-2 Infections Among Blood Donors, by COVID-19 Vaccination Status — United States, April 2021–September 2022 | MMWR
  • 06/02 More than 70% of US household COVID spread started with a child, study suggests | CIDRAP
  • 06/07 Researchers discover that COVID-19 can cause brain cells to fuse - Medical XPress
  • 06/07 Could fused neurons explain COVID-19’s ‘brain fog’? | Science | AAAS
  • 06/08 Confidence in vaccines has plummeted in Africa since the pandemic, shows eight-country study - Medical XPress
  • 06/08 Approving Workplace Accommodations for Patients with Long Covid — Advice for Clinicians | NEJM
  • 06/11 Three New Studies Show the COVID Vaccines Are Very Safe for Children | Science-Based Medicine
  • 06/13 Common diabetes drug shown to prevent long COVID | CIDRAP
  • 06/13 Researchers identify type of long COVID with persistent inflammation | CIDRAP
  • 06/14 Survey finds 8% Omicron-positivity rate after medical meeting | CIDRAP
  • 06/15 What makes a COVID superspreader? Scientists learn more after deliberately infecting volunteers - Nature
  • 06/16 Notes from the Field: Comparison of COVID-19 Mortality Rates Among Adults Aged ≥65 Years Who Were Unvaccinated and Those Who Received a Bivalent Booster Dose Within the Preceding 6 Months — 20 U.S. Jurisdictions, September 18, 2022–April 1, 2023 | MMWR
  • 06/16 Medicaid Enrollment and Unwinding Tracker | KFF
  • 06/19 Global ‘pandemic treaty’: nations wrestle with how to fairly share virus data - Nature
  • 06/20 Clinicians describe lack of support, waning motivation in year 2 of COVID-19 | CIDRAP
  • 06/20 COVID-19 vaccination doesn't harm ovarian health, fertility, study suggests | CIDRAP
  • 06/20 COVID-19 vaccines protective in children ages 0 to 11 | CIDRAP
  • 06/21 Clot Risk More Common in Survivors of Severe COVID Versus Flu | MedPage Today
  • 06/21 Scientists shouldn’t debate gaslighters | Science | AAAS
  • 06/22 ‘Ridiculous,’ says Chinese scientist accused of being pandemic’s patient zero | Science | AAAS
  • 06/23 Trends in Laboratory-Confirmed SARS-CoV-2 Reinfections and Associated Hospitalizations and Deaths Among Adults Aged ≥18 Years — 18 U.S. Jurisdictions, September 2021–December 2022 | MMWR
  • 06/23 Effectiveness of Up-to-Date COVID-19 Vaccination in Preventing SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Nursing Home Residents — United States, November 20, 2022–January 8, 2023 | MMWR
  • 06/26 Prolonged inflammation associated with long COVID restored to healthy levels within two years post-infection: Study - Medical Xpress
  • 06/26 Study links moderate, severe COVID-19 to chronic pain | CIDRAP
  • 06/26 Study: Sperm counts decline even after mild COVID infections | CIDRAP
  • 06/27 Trove of new coronaviruses uncovered in bats — but threat is unclear - Nature
  • 06/29 Wastewater sampling in Canada suggests COVID case rate 19 times higher than reported | CIDRAP
  • 06/29 Debating Antivaccine Cranks Debases Science and Harms the Public - Scientific American

    July 2023

  • 07/03 COVID-19 digital contact tracing worked — heed the lessons for future pandemics - Nature
  • 07/06 COVID variants exploited air travel for swift spread - Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation
  • 07/11 Gene linked to long COVID found in analysis of thousands of patients - Nature
  • 07/18 Study shows dogs can detect COVID-19 faster, better than most PCR tests | CIDRAP
  • 07/19 Had COVID but no symptoms? You might have this genetic mutation - Nature
  • 07/19 Costly invite? Scientists hit with massive bills after speaking at COVID-19 ‘webinars’ | Science | AAAS
  • 07/20 A Q&A with Gavi’s Seth Berkley on vaccines, Covid, and more - Stat
  • 07/23 US National Institutes of Health Updated Guidelines on Long Covid in Children - John Snow Project
  • 07/24 Long-COVID patients performed worse on cognitive tests for up to 2 years | CIDRAP
  • 07/25 Bob Wachter's Viral Tweet and Thoughts on AI in Medicine - Medscape
  • 07/26 Project NextGen — Defeating SARS-CoV-2 and Preparing for the Next Pandemic | NEJM
  • 07/28 Newly-discovered antibodies can neutralize COVID-19 variants, potentially prevent future coronavirus outbreaks - Medical Xpress
  • 07/29 Pandemics move faster than funders - The Lancet
  • 07/31 NIH launches clinical trials and new research office for long Covid - Stat

    August 2023

  • 08/01 NIH launches trials for long COVID treatments: what scientists think - Nature
  • 08/04 Notes from the Field: Safety Monitoring of Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine Among Persons Aged ≥12 Years — United States, July 13, 2022–March 13, 2023 | MMWR
  • 08/07 COVID Variants Can Affect the Brain in Different Ways - Neuroscience News
  • 08/07 US COVID tracking shows another slight rise, increasing EG.5 proportion | CIDRAP
  • 08/09 SARS-CoV-2 can damage mitochondrion in heart, other organs, study finds | CIDRAP
  • 08/09 SARS-CoV-2 disrupts mitochondria. Could that cause long Covid? - Stat
  • 08/09 NIH trials fail to test meaningful long Covid therapies, experts say - Stat
  • 08/10 COVID-19 infection associated with fetal demise - Contemporary OB/GYN
  • 08/10 COVID-19 infection associated with fetal demise - Contemporary OBGYN
  • 08/11 Prevalence of Symptoms ≤12 Months After Acute Illness, by COVID-19 Testing Status Among Adults — United States, December 2020–March 2023 | MMWR
  • 08/11 Long COVID and Significant Activity Limitation Among Adults, by Age — United States, June 1–13, 2022, to June 7–19, 2023 | MMWR
  • 08/14 A protein that disrupts cells’ energy centers may be a culprit in chronic fatigue syndrome | Science | AAAS
  • 08/14 Racist COVID Claims Spread by RFK, Jr., and Other Demagogues Are Deadly - Scientific American
  • 08/15 People with positive COVID results from home tests were 29% less likely to isolate | CIDRAP
  • 08/15 An Evolutionary Perspective on Why the Lab Leak Theory Is Wrong | MedPage Today
  • 08/15 Long COVID: Mitochondria, the Big Miss, and Hope- Medscape
  • 08/16 How do we best use Paxlovid and other covid antivirals? | The BMJ
  • 08/17 Where now in the danse macabre of covid-19 and misinformation? | The BMJ
  • 08/17 WHO adds BA.2.86 to SARS-CoV-2 variant monitoring list | CIDRAP
  • 08/18 What to Know About EG.5, the Latest SARS-CoV-2 “Variant of Interest” | Infectious Diseases | JAMA | JAMA Network
  • 08/18 COVID-19 tied to dangerous blood clots in cancer patients | CIDRAP
  • 08/18 Risk assessment for SARS-CoV-2 variant V-23AUG-01 (or BA.2.86) - GOV.UK
  • 08/18 Severe COVID-19 may lead to long-term innate immune system changes | National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • 08/22 Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic: Updating Our Approach to Masking in Health Care Facilities | Annals of Internal Medicine
  • 08/22 US reports another BA.2.86 COVID-19 sequence | CIDRAP
  • 08/22 Veterans study shows excess mortality leveled off 6 months after acute COVID-19 | CIDRAP
  • 08/22 Project NextGen Awards Over $1.4 Billion to Develop the Future of COVID-19 Vaccines and Therapeutics | HHS.gov
  • 08/22 Covid-19 antibodies may give us partial immunity to SARS and MERS | New Scientist
  • 08/22 SARS-CoV-2 can cause lasting damage to cells’ energy production | National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • 08/23 Covid-19 hasn’t fallen into a seasonal pattern — yet - Stat
  • 08/24 The Royal Society’s programme on the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on Covid-19 transmission | Royal Society
  • 08/25 Global COVID-19 Data Gap Grows As Countries Stop Reporting To WHO - Health Policy Watch
  • 08/28 Long COVID in low-income and middle-income countries: the hidden public health crisis - The Lancet
  • 08/29 Long-COVID patients with severe fatigue report little relief by 20 months | CIDRAP
  • 08/31 Clotting proteins linked to Long Covid’s brain fog | Science | AAAS

    September 2023

  • 09/06 SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID-19, can infect sensory neurons - Medical XPress
  • 09/07 ECDC details rising COVID-19 as more Asian nations report BA.2.86 | CIDRAP
  • 09/09 SARS-CoV-2 variant surveillance and assessment: technical briefing 53 - GOV.UK
  • 09/14 Long Covid needs a new name — and a new frame - STAT
  • 09/19 Why the pandemic treaty risks becoming COVID-19 groundhog day - Nature
  • 09/20 Long covid: the doctors’ lives destroyed by an illness they caught while doing their jobs | The BMJ
  • 09/20 Experts study whether long Covid risk adds up with each reinfection - STAT
  • 09/20 Free Covid tests will again be offered to all U.S. households - STAT
  • 09/21 Trial By Error: An Interview with Yale's Akiko Iwasaki | Virology Blog
  • 09/22 Making sense of multiorgan MRI imaging for post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection - The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
  • 09/25 People with long COVID have distinct hormonal and immune differences to those without the condition - Medical XPress
  • 09/25 Molnupiravir: Covid-19 drug may be creating new variants with distinctive mutations | New Scientist
  • 09/26 Survey: 18 million Americans say they have long COVID | CIDRAP
  • 09/27 KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor September 2023: Partisanship Remains Key Predictor of Views Of COVID-19, Including Plans To Get Latest COVID-19 Vaccine | KFF
  • 09/27 Poll: Nearly Half of Adults Expect to Get the New COVID-19 Vaccine, But Most Parents Don’t Expect to Get It for Their Children; More Eligible Adults Expect to Get a Flu Shot and the New RSV Vaccine | KFF
  • 09/28 Study helps explain how COVID-19 heightens ri | EurekAlert!
  • 09/28 The United States is paying nearly triple for new Covid vaccines - STAT
  • 09/29 SARS-CoV-2 can infect coronary arteries and trigger heart attack, stroke, study suggests | CIDRAP
  • 09/30 COVAX: the unspent billions - The Lancet

    October 2023

  • 10/06 COVID-19–Associated Hospitalizations Among U.S. Adults Aged ≥65 Years — COVID-NET, 13 States, January–August 2023 | MMWR
  • 10/06 Should you pick Novavax’s COVID-19 shot over mRNA options? | Science | AAAS
  • 10/07 Do Pandemics Ever End? | NEJM
  • 10/11 Learn from the past to predict viral pandemics - Nature
  • 10/12 Long COVID Challenges Remain: Medscape Physician Survey - Medscape
  • 10/12 Variant-adapted COVID-19 booster vaccines | Science
  • 10/13 The mRNA Vaccine Revolution - Science Friday
  • 10/18 Long COVID research risks losing momentum – we need a moonshot - Nature
  • 10/18 What keeps me up at night | Science Translational Medicine
  • 10/19 Billions boost next-generation COVID-19 vaccine and treatments | Science | AAAS
  • 10/24 Anti-COVID drug accelerates viral evolution - Nature
  • 10/24 How SARS-CoV-2 contributes to heart attacks and strokes | National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • 10/27 Notes from the Field: Early Identification of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2.86 Variant by the Traveler-Based Genomic Surveillance Program — Dulles International Airport, August 2023 | MMWR

    November 2023

  • 11/06 Study suggests mass vaccination programs cut COVID cases in Japan 65% | CIDRAP
  • 11/10 Declines in Influenza Vaccination Coverage Among Health Care Personnel in Acute Care Hospitals During the COVID-19 Pandemic — United States, 2017–2023 | MMWR
  • 11/11 Offline: “Laughing at the Italians” - The Lancet
  • 11/13 Health Disinformation—Gaining Strength, Becoming Infinite | Vaccination | JAMA Internal Medicine | JAMA Network
  • 11/28 Birth records show COVID-19 caused spike in preterm births | CIDRAP

    December 2023

  • 12/01 COVID activity picks up pace alongside other respiratory viruses | CIDRAP
  • 12/06 Nearly half of COVID survivors in Africa have lingering symptoms, data reveal | CIDRAP
  • 12/06 Study shows infants exposed to COVID in utero at risk for developmental delay | CIDRAP
  • 12/11 5% of COVID-infected US veterans still had symptoms up to 1 year later | CIDRAP
  • 12/11 Public health officials detail threats, changed landscape post-pandemic | CIDRAP
  • 12/14 New report finds 15% of child deaths in England linked to infections - Medical Xpress
  • 12/14 CDC urges people to get respiratory disease vaccines, notes MIS-C rise in kids | CIDRAP
  • 12/15 Study shows COVID-19 infection alters gene transcription of olfactory mucosal cells in Alzheimer's disease - Medical Xpress
  • 12/19 Inhaled COVID vaccines stop infection in its tracks in monkey trials
  • 12/21 Contact-tracing app predicts risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission - Nature
  • 12/27 Study shows COVID leaves brain injury markers in blood | CIDRAP
  • 12/28 Study finds similar brain effects after severe COVID, other critical illnesses | CIDRAP

    January 2024

  • 01/01 Ivermectin Prescription Fill Rates Among U.S. Military Members During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic | Health.mil
  • 01/02 Q&A: Eric Topol on Long Covid clinical trials, RECOVER funding, what he’s looking forward to in 2024 - The Sick Times
  • 01/03 Long COVID is a double curse in low-income nations — here’s why - Nature
  • 01/03 Vaccination Dramatically Lowers Long COVID Risk | Scientific American
  • 01/05 Is Vaccination Approaching a Dangerous Tipping Point? | Vaccination | JAMA | JAMA Network
  • 01/10 Vaccines reduce the risk of long COVID in children - Nature
  • 01/11 Four cold-causing coronaviruses may provide clues to COVID’s future | Science | AAAS
  • 01/12 As COVID-19 Cases Surge, Here’s What to Know About JN.1, the Latest SARS-CoV-2 “Variant of Interest” | Infectious Diseases | JAMA | JAMA Network
  • 01/13 Peter Hotez: physician-scientist-warrior combating anti-science - The Lancet

    February 2024

  • 02/01 Early Estimates of Updated 2023–2024 (Monovalent XBB.1.5) COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Against Symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection Attributable to Co-Circulating Omicron Variants Among Immunocompetent Adults — Increasing Community Access to Testing Program, United States, September 2023–January 2024 | MMWR
  • 02/12 CDC tracking BA.2.87.1 SARS-CoV-2 variant | CIDRAP
  • 02/13 Research shows 1 in 10 infected pregnant women develop long COVID | CIDRAP
  • 02/14 Studies spotlight cognitive issues, depression, fatigue in those with long COVID | CIDRAP
  • 02/15 Notes from the Field: Long COVID Prevalence Among Adults — United States, 2022 | MMWR
  • 02/15 CDC's Tracking a New COVID Variant: BA.2.87.1 | MedPage Today
  • 02/16 Long COVID Seems to Be a Brain Injury, Scientists Discover : ScienceAlert
  • 02/21 The largest safety study of COVID vaccines finds rare issues - Skeptical Raptor
  • 02/22 Solving the puzzle of Long Covid | Science
  • 02/29 Long Covid and Impaired Cognition — More Evidence and More Work to Do | NEJM

    March 2024

  • 03/05 COVID tied to higher risk of inflammatory autoimmune diseases for 1 year | CIDRAP
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