What We Know and Don’t Know About Long Covid
PocketThree years on, we are still only beginning to understand one of the most mysterious and enduring challenges of the pandemic.
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What people with ‘super immunity’ can teach us about Covid and other viruses
NBC News · 8 minDo a lucky few have a kind of biological armor against infection? Scientists are just beginning to unlock the mystery of the true Covid dodgers.
The Kindergartners Of 2020 Share What They Remember About The Pandemic
romper.com · 15 minCollecting my children’s bagged “personal items” from their school in a socially distanced line while wearing a homemade cloth mask is the most vivid memory I have of the entire coronavirus disaster.
An Ivermectin Influencer Died. Now His Followers Are Worried About Their Own ‘Severe’ Symptoms.
VICE · 5 minHours later, Lemoi was dead. For the last decade, Lemoi had taken a daily dose of veterinary ivermectin, a dewormer designed to be used on large animals like horses and cows.
The Next Stage of COVID Is Starting Now
The Atlantic · 9 minWhat happens when everyone first gets immunity to the coronavirus as a very young kid? To hear more audio stories, download the Hark app.
How China's new No.2 hastened the end of Xi's zero-COVID policy
Reuters · 7 minHONG KONG/BEIJING/SHANGHAI, March 3 (Reuters) - As unprecedented protests against China's zero-COVID policies escalated in November, Li Qiang, the man recently elevated to No.2 on the ruling Communist Party's Politburo Standing Committee, seized the moment.
‘We Cannot Afford to Ignore Disabled Voices:’ Changing the Way We Talk About Covid
PocketDisability rights activist and author Emily Ladau argues that ableist language holds us back from not only having more productive conversations about Covid, but developing more effective policies to confront the pandemic.
How the pandemic inspired a new generation of creators
Nature Publishing Group · 6 minYou have full access to this article via your institution. “Never let a good crisis go to waste,” Winston Churchill is said to have once advised.
Three Years Into Covid, We Still Don’t Know How to Talk About It
The New York Times · 37 minMost Americans think they know the story of the pandemic. But when I immersed myself in a Covid oral-history project, I realized how much we’re still missing.
When Everything Becomes an Event
Slate · 6 minWe now seem stuck with a pandemic switch.
Are there places you should still mask in, forever? Three experts weigh in
NPR · 3 minWondering if and when you should still be masking up? NPR asked some experts.
The Future of Long COVID
The Atlantic · 12 minThis emergency is not about to end.
She Helped Unlock the Science of the Covid Vaccine
The New York Times · 8 minKizzmekia Corbett helped lead a team of scientists contributing to one of the most stunning achievements in the history of immunizations: a highly effective, easily manufactured vaccine against Covid-19.
New Yorkers Never Came ‘Flooding Back.’ Why Did Rents Go Up So Much?
Curbed · 17 minGetting to the bottom of a COVID-era real estate mystery.
This winter's U.S. COVID surge is fading fast, likely thanks to a 'wall' of immunity
NPR · 4 minThis winter's COVID-19 surge in the U.S. appears to be fading without hitting nearly as hard as many had feared.
I Bought a CO2 Monitor, and It Broke Me
The Atlantic · 7 minTo hear more audio stories, download the Hark app. The culprit was my new portable carbon-dioxide monitor, a device that had been sitting in my Amazon cart for months.
The Lab-Leak Theory Still Can’t Be Disproved. Should We Care?
Slate · 12 minOn Jan. 30,2020, Republican Sen. Tom Cotton addressed military leaders at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing and presented a startling idea. At that time, the novel coronavirus was spreading around China and had killed hundreds of people, though it had not yet been identified in the U.S.
I Became a Pastor during the Pandemic
The Walrus · 16 minI wasn’t prepared for the challenges I would face as a priest during COVID-19.
9 diseases that keep epidemiologists up at night
NPR · 7 minJust three years ago, on Jan. 30, 2020, the head of the World Health Organization made a landmark declaration: A "novel coronavirus" that had first been identified in China had spread to a degree where it was now a "Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)."
A Clue to Why the 1918 Pandemic Came Back Stronger Than Before
The Atlantic · 5 minThree 103-year-old-lung samples hinted at how the flu mutated to become more deadly. The three teenagers—two boys and a girl—could not have known what clues their lungs would one day yield.
Immunity debt: does it really exist?
The Guardian · 8 minThe deaths of at least 74 people, including 19 children, from the invasive bacterial infection group A streptococcus, or strep A, are the most extreme consequences of a wave of winter infections that have seemingly left most of the country coughing and sneezing.
People who haven't had COVID will likely catch XBB.1.5 – and many will get reinfected, experts say
USA TODAY · 7 minThe newest COVID-19 variant is so contagious that even people who've avoided it so far are getting infected and the roughly 80% of Americans who've already been infected are likely to catch it again, experts say.
‘Bit of a slow boil’: how to rethink the last few years of pandemic stress
The Sydney Morning Herald · 7 minYou’ve made it through nearly three years of a global pandemic with almost all of your marbles. There’s just one tiny problem. You can’t seem to shake the weighty feeling that your mind has been contorted by what you’ve survived.
Partying Feels Different Now
The Atlantic · 8 minParties have always been about hope. After forgoing them for so long during the pandemic, that’s clearer than ever. Parties were never on my mind more than when I wasn’t attending any. I avoided them for a couple of years, and my interest sharpened as a result.
People Are Fed Up With Rapid Tests
The Atlantic · 4 minAt-home swabbing still works just fine, but we can’t seem to escape false negatives. What gives? Max Hamilton found out that his roommate had been exposed to the coronavirus shortly after Thanksgiving. The dread set in, and then, so did her symptoms.
The Case for Wearing Masks Forever
The New Yorker · 16 minLast December, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that it was shortening the recommended isolation period for those with COVID-19 to five days.