The young and healthy were not just as likely to die as the old and frail, according to a new analysis.
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Differences in certain avian and mammalian proteins explain why avian influenza doesn’t (typically) infect humans.
Sixty years later, will anybody have heard of COVID?
“We are not our grandparents. It’s time to start thinking differently,” journalist Annie Jacobsen told Big Think.
The most feared sexually transmitted disease (STD) of the last half-millennium was usually named after foreigners, often the French.
Concluding that Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest was caused by the COVID vaccine requires accepting highly improbable leaps of logic.
Gain-of-function mutation research may help predict the next pandemic — or, critics argue, cause one.
An emerging field studies parasites that take over the nervous system of a host.
It’s not a gambit. It’s not fraud. It’s not driven by opinion, prejudice, or bias. It’s not unchallengeable. And it’s more than facts alone.
Shocked city dwellers who stared at it were blinded instantly, then the entire city caught fire.
A Harvard professor’s study discovers the worst year to be alive.
Ignoring a scientific truth doesn’t change it, even when the consequences are deadly. “If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you do it, too?” Many of us, as children, […]
It occurred naturally, and scientists know this for certain. Starting in late 2019, a novel strain of coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, began infecting human beings for the very first time. Discovered in samples […]
Vaccines can be grown in and extracted from the leaves of plants.
The video fragment only shows increase in COVID-19 cases, reversing the video’s original message to induce panic.
Can the American government stop coronavirus spread? Its past actions speak volumes.
The U.S., China, and Russia are in a “vaccine race” that treats a global challenge like a winner-take-all game.
The CDC estimates that more than 210,000 people in the U.S. have been hospitalized by the flu this season.
Research supports wearing surgical face masks to slow the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
Can a real pandemic (such as COVID-19) turn into mass hysteria?
Health officials in China reported that a man was infected with bubonic plague, the infectious disease that caused the Black Death.
Instead of looking forward, we should be consulting the past.
Ending social distancing won’t only make us sicker, but will tank the health care industry in the process. The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic continues to spread around the world. As of today, […]
Ferrets are not humans, but this new drug is showing promise.
The only doubts are completely unreasonable. Where did the virus that causes COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, come from? Over the past few weeks, there’s been a tremendous push — largely among politicians but also […]
We have been rejecting science for far too long. We all need to embrace it. For as long as human civilization has existed, those societies that have embraced science have had […]
Research is for the experts. Listen to them instead. “Research both sides and make up your own mind.” It’s simple, straightforward, common sense advice. And when it comes to issues like […]
It will take a national effort to get it done. Here’s how. Over the past six months — a full half of a year — the United States has suffered more deaths and illnesses due […]
Here’s what scientists know about how the virus spreads, and how to avoid contracting it.