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Will Covid Boosters Prevent Another Wave? Scientists Aren’t So Sure.

As winter looms and Americans increasingly gather indoors without masks or social distancing, a medley of new coronavirus variants is seeding a rise in...

Who Is Protected Against Monkeypox?

For a world weary of fighting the coronavirus, the monkeypox outbreak poses a key question: Am I at risk?The answer is reassuring. Most children...

Trying to Solve a Covid Mystery: Africa’s Low Death Rates

While health surveillance is weak, he acknowledged, Sierra Leoneans have the recent, terrible experience of Ebola, which killed 4,000 people here in 2014-16. Since...

Exercise May Enhance the Effects of a Covid or Flu Shot

Taking a long, brisk walk, jog or bike ride after your next Covid or flu vaccine might amplify the benefits of the shot, according...

How Long After Having Covid Can I Get a Booster Shot?

But if you’re currently dealing with an active infection, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends waiting at least until you no longer...

Why Nasal Covid Vaccines May Make Better Boosters

HYDERABAD, India — On the outskirts of this centuries-old Indian city, a world away from its congested roads and cacophony, the gleaming modern laboratories...

How Omicron’s Mutations Allow It To Thrive

Because an immunocompromised host doesn’t produce a lot of antibodies, many viruses are left to propagate. And new mutant viruses that resist the antibodies...

How Does Getting a Breakthrough Covid Case Affect My Immunity?

Experts also caution against trying to get infected on purpose as a way to gain hybrid immunity. “I really worry that people will intentionally...

Covid Treatments Including Paxlovid Are Rationed as Cases Spike

At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, scarce ventilators and protective equipment faced strict rationing. Today, as the pandemic rages into its...

More People Are Getting Unapproved Fourth Doses of the Covid-19 Vaccine

If asked to show her vaccine card, Stacey Ricks can choose from three.Ms. Ricks, 49, a kidney transplant recipient who takes immune-suppressing medication, did...

Pfizer Says Its Antiviral Pill Is Highly Effective in Treating Covid

Pfizer announced on Friday that its pill to treat Covid-19 had been found in a key clinical trial to be highly effective at preventing...

If You’ve Had Covid, Do You Need the Vaccine?

When Jonathan Isaac, a prominent basketball player for the Orlando Magic, explained why he chose not to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, he tapped...

They Shunned Covid Vaccines but Embraced Antibody Treatment

Lanson Jones did not think that the coronavirus would come for him. An avid tennis player in Houston who had not caught so much...

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