March 20, 2025
(Men’s Health) – Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic first swept across the planet, as many as 20 million Americans and at least 400 million people worldwide currently suffer from long COVID, a debilitating condition that still has no approved … Read More
March 18, 2025
(The Atlantic) – The tragedy of people suffering and dying alone is one of the enduring and unaddressed traumas of the pandemic. During early surges, we restricted visits to stop COVID from spreading. Yet even when the number of infections … Read More
March 17, 2025
(New York Times) – As the coronavirus spread, researchers worldwide scrambled to find ways to keep people safe. Some efforts were misguided. Others saved millions of lives. Perhaps the biggest lesson learned, several experts said, is that recommendations during any … Read More
March 14, 2025
(NPR) – Five years after the WHO declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, and the Trump administration announced a national emergency, the United States faces a crucial shortage of medical providers, and one that is below its projected need for an … Read More
March 13, 2025
(New York Times) – People who endured the longest Covid restrictions in the world are still grappling with what they lost: their loved ones, their livelihoods, their dignity. Perhaps no country was as deeply reshaped by the pandemic as China, … Read More
March 13, 2025
(Reuters) – Germany’s foreign intelligence service in 2020 put at 80%-90% the likelihood that the coronavirus behind the COVID-19 pandemic was accidentally released from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, two German newspapers reported on Wednesday. According to a joint report … Read More
March 13, 2025
(New York Times) – Covid-19 broke the charts. Decades from now, the pandemic will be visible in the historical data of nearly anything measurable today: an unmistakable spike, dip or jolt that officially began for Americans five years ago this … Read More
March 12, 2025
(Undark) – In a provocative new book, political scientists Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee call for a pandemic reckoning. In their forthcoming book, “In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us,” they argue that many pandemic-era policies were not grounded … Read More
March 12, 2025
(Nature) – After 150,000 articles and 17 million genome sequences, what has science taught us about SARS-CoV-2? Scientists have also generated more than 17 million SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences so far, more than for any other organism. This has given an … Read More
March 11, 2025
(MedPage Today) – It’s much more than just dexamethasone works, hydroxychloroquine doesn’t Four early clinical trial efforts — two in the U.K. and two in the U.S. — are regarded by infectious disease experts as the most important for delivering … Read More
March 10, 2025
(Axios) – COVID-19 put public health officials on the front lines against a once-in-a-lifetime threat. It’s left them with less power and resources to respond to future emergencies. Why it matters: Instead of strengthening America’s public health infrastructure, the pandemic … Read More
March 6, 2025
(BBC) – Sweden, Taiwan, Uruguay, Iceland and a few others never enacted a lockdown that involved severe restrictions on the movement of people, such as legally binding stay-at-home orders applied across large swathes of the population. Those countries instead chose … Read More
March 6, 2025
(Axios) – The mRNA vaccines that helped to end the COVID pandemic — and stoked a considerable amount of vaccine skepticism and misinformation — are now a target of legislators in some conservative-led states. Why it matters: The efforts risk … Read More
March 6, 2025
(New York Times) – A growing health libertarianism insists on bodily autonomy, out of anger about pandemic mitigation and faith that personal behavior can ward off infection and death. And the greatest social and technological experiment of our time, artificial … Read More
February 26, 2025
Journal of Medical Humanities (vol. 46, no 1, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
February 25, 2025
(Gizmodo) – New research out this month showcases the ever-present danger posed by coronaviruses, the family of viruses that gave rise to the covid-19 pandemic. Scientists in China have reportedly found a new coronavirus in bats that may be capable … Read More
February 24, 2025
(The Atlantic) – In truth, scientists were both right and wrong about the speed at which SARS-CoV-2 mutates. The rate of mutations as this virus jumps from person to person is indeed unimpressive. But scientists were not aware of a … Read More
February 19, 2025
(New York Times) – The Covid-19 vaccines were powerfully protective, preventing millions of deaths. But in a small number of people, the shots may have led to a constellation of side effects that includes fatigue, exercise intolerance, brain fog, tinnitus … Read More
February 18, 2025
(CBS News) – For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, more people in the U.S. died of influenza than from COVID-19 in the week ending on Jan. 25, according to weekly figures published by the Centers for … Read More
January 22, 2025
(KFF Health News) – Some doctors and researchers are also critical of the agency’s research initiative, called RECOVER, or Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery. Without clinical trials, physicians specializing in treating long covid must rely on hunches to guide their … Read More
January 16, 2025
(BBC) – Families of those harmed by Covid vaccines told the UK Covid Inquiry they were forced to support each other during the pandemic because there was no other help. Kate Scott, who represents the group Vaccine Injured and Bereaved … Read More
December 31, 2024
(Undark) – The CDC is piloting a disease forecasting service called Insight Net. Could it be a game-changer for public health? Can we predict the ebb and flow of infectious disease the way meteorologists predict the weather? The federal government … Read More
December 27, 2024
(ABC) – From a pig kidney transplant to restoring genetic deafness, 2024 was a year full of medical breakthroughs. The breakthroughs include the discovery of a cause of an autoimmune disease, the development of a “game-changing” drug and potential hope … Read More
December 26, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – “The Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the National Intelligence Council’s work on Covid-19 origins complied with all of the Intelligence Community’s analytic standards, including objectivity,” the spokeswoman said. But an investigation by The … Read More
December 23, 2024
(U.S. News & World Report) – Nearly 3.1 million U.S. residents died in 2023, according to final data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – roughly 189,000 fewer than in 2022. The age-adjusted rate of mortality in 2023 … Read More
