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Happy Birthday, Omicron

A single subvariant is not gaining all of the new mutations, however. Ben Murrell, a computational biologist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, and...

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...

The Disease Took Zara, Then Sara. Could Ayla Be Saved?

Dr. Chakraborty wanted to start treating Zara, but the day she was supposed to get her first infusion, her lungs collapsed, and she spent...

Most Hospitalized Monkeypox Patients in the U.S. Were H.I.V.-Positive

Nearly all Americans hospitalized for monkeypox infection had weakened immune systems, most often because of H.I.V. infection, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

Vaccine protection waned this spring but boosters helped, the C.D.C. reports.

The emergence of highly contagious Omicron subvariants this spring in the United States appeared to reduce the protection offered by vaccines against Covid hospitalizations,...

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...

Why a Coronavirus-Flu ‘Twindemic’ May Never Happen

The notion of that there is a sort of interplay between viruses first emerged in the 1960s, when vaccinations for polio, which contain weakened...

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...

A Cancer Treatment Makes Leukemia Vanish, but Creates More Mysteries

After the CD8 cells did their job, they remained in the blood but, unexpectedly, they turned into CD4 cells. And when the Penn investigators...

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...

A 4th Shot? Some At-Risk Americans Are Eligible Later This Week

Some people with a weakened immune system can get a fourth dose of the coronavirus vaccine as early as this coming week, according to...

Scientists Endorse Covid Boosters, But to a Point

“People that are vaccinated really are doing very well in terms of hospitalization,” said Michel Nussenzweig, an immunologist at Rockefeller University in New York....

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