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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Three years on, we are still only beginning to understand one of the most mysterious and enduring challenges of the pandemic.
Do a lucky few have a kind of biological armor against infection? Scientists are just beginning to unlock the mystery of the true Covid dodgers.
Collecting 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.
Hours 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.
What happens when everyone first gets immunity to the coronavirus as a very young kid? To hear more audio stories, download the Hark app.
HONG 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.
Disability 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.
You 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.
Most 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.
We now seem stuck with a pandemic switch.
Wondering if and when you should still be masking up? NPR asked some experts.
This emergency is not about to end.
Kizzmekia 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.
Getting to the bottom of a COVID-era real estate mystery.
This winter's COVID-19 surge in the U.S. appears to be fading without hitting nearly as hard as many had feared.
To 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.
On 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 wasn’t prepared for the challenges I would face as a priest during COVID-19.
Just 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)."
Three 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.
The 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.
The 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.
You’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.
Parties 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.
At-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.
Last 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.