Tag: Vaccines
COVID-19 vaccines were developed in record time – but are these...
William Petri, University of Virginia
There are now two COVID-19 vaccines that, at least according to preliminary reports, appear to be 94.5% and 95% effective....
How mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna work, why they’re a...
Sanjay Mishra, Vanderbilt University
As the weather cools, the number of infections of the COVID-19 pandemic are rising sharply. Hamstrung by pandemic fatigue, economic constraints...
Why we didn’t get a vaccine by Election Day – but...
William Petri, University of Virginia
A COVID-19 vaccine was not ready before the general election, as many people, including the president, had hoped. But there...
Why a vaccine can provide better immunity than an actual infection
Maitreyi Shivkumar, De Montfort University
Two recent studies have confirmed that people previously infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can be reinfected with...
Why COVID-19 vaccines need to prioritize ‘superspreaders’
Dana Goldman, University of Southern California; David Conti, University of Southern California, and Matthew E. Kahn, Johns Hopkins University
Once safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines...
Video: An infectious disease expert explains the results from Moderna’s latest...
Sanjay Mishra, Vanderbilt University
Biotech company Moderna, one of many organizations developing a vaccine for COVID-19, published results from an early-stage test of its experimental...
5 ways the world is better off dealing with a pandemic...
Siddharth Chandra, Michigan State University and Eva Kassens-Noor, Michigan State University
Near the end of the First World War, a deadly flu raced across the...
How lingering fears from the pandemic could change the way we...
Josh Woods, West Virginia University
Taiwan’s pro baseball league rebooted operations in mid-April with robot spectators filling the bleachers. A month later, Major League Baseball...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
