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Health
Omicron’s Radical Evolution
As nurses and doctors struggle with a record-breaking wave of Omicron cases, evolutionary biologists are engaged in a struggle of…
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Health
A popular at-home test detects most infectious Omicron cases, a study suggests.
The Abbott BinaxNOW, a widely used at-home coronavirus test, can detect the vast majority of people who are infected with…
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Politics
Biden Struggles to Beat Back a Resurgent Virus Once Again
WASHINGTON — The latest surge of the coronavirus is another reminder for President Biden of how hard it is to…
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Health
C.D.C. Virus Tests Were Contaminated and Poorly Designed, Agency Says
The faulty coronavirus testing kits developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the early weeks of the…
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Magazine
We’re Getting Close to ‘Universal’ Vaccines. It Hasn’t Been Easy.
On Nov. 19, 2019, Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, happened to be…
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Health
New Covid Pills Offer Hope as Omicron Looms
As the world worries that the Omicron coronavirus variant may cause a surge of cases and weaken vaccines, drug developers…
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World
Fragmented Reactions Hinder Global Fight Against Omicron Variant
ROME — In a wrenchingly familiar cycle of tracking first cases, pointing fingers and banning travel, nations worldwide reacted Monday…
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Health
A panel of F.D.A. advisers is set to discuss Merck’s Covid pill.
As the world reels from the emergence of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, a panel of advisers to the…
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Health
Will the Vaccines Stop Omicron? Scientists Are Racing to Find Out.
As nations severed air links from southern Africa amid fears of another global surge of the coronavirus, scientists scrambled on…
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Magazine
Could Covid Lead to Progress?
A mystery has long surrounded the Great Influenza of 1918-19. Why did a pandemic that killed upward of 50 million…
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