Health
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Fauci predicts an uptick in U.S. cases, saying it is not yet time to ‘declare victory.’
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the Biden administration’s top adviser on the pandemic, predicted on Sunday an “uptick” in coronavirus infections…
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Another Covid Surge May Be Coming. Are We Ready for It?
Scarcely two months after the Omicron variant drove coronavirus case numbers to frightening heights in the United States, scientists and…
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Shrugs Over Flu Signal Future Attitudes About Covid
When Dr. Arnold Monto, a public health researcher at the University of Michigan, lectures about influenza, he starts by saying:…
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In Africa, a Mix of Shots Drives an Uncertain Covid Vaccination Push
KAMAKWIE, Sierra Leone — In the tumbledown concrete room that has been commandeered as this sleepy African trading center’s Covid-19…
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Inside the High-Stakes Race to Test the Covid Tests
ATLANTA — When the pandemic hit two years ago, the United States faced an acute shortage of reliable Covid-19 tests.…
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Covid restrictions prevented dengue in hundreds of thousands of people in 2020.
Public health measures to stop the spread of Covid-19 had an unintended consequence across Latin America and Southeast Asia in…
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‘Stealth’ Omicron Is Stealthy No More: What’s Known About the BA.2 Variant
As the Omicron coronavirus surge subsides, researchers are keeping an eye on a highly transmissible subvariant known as BA.2. Although…
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Flu Vaccine Was Not Very Effective This Season, the C.D.C. Says
This season’s flu vaccine has offered little to no protection against getting a mild or moderate case of influenza, the…
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Masking did help protect children from the virus last fall, according to a C.D.C. study.
More and more American school districts have dropped mask mandates in recent weeks as coronavirus cases plunged across the United…
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Texas Youth Gender Clinic Closed Last Year Under Political Pressure
On a tense conference call last November with half a dozen doctors and executives at the University of Texas Southwestern…