Science / Health

Biden gets to work on the pandemic, the CDC adjusts vaccine guidelines, and death tolls rise worldwide. Here’s what you

Around this time last year, Covid-19—the disease that has so far killed more than 400,000 Americans and infected 25 million

Mariam Zakhary, an assistant professor in Mount Sinai Hospital’s department of rehabilitation medicine, remembers what 7 pm sounded like in

In the 1970s, a company called Swedish Match started advertising snus to Swedish men. Snus wasn’t a new product; the

On Day Zero of the presidential administration of Joe Biden, the single priority of the federal government must be Covid-19.

This is the first sentence I’ve written this week. I wrote it on a Thursday. Like many people right now,

Officials try to speed up vaccinations, scientists discover more mutations, and researchers chart the pandemic’s future. Here’s what you should

In April 2020, children under the age of 18 made up just 1.7 percent of reported coronavirus cases, according to

Viruses lead a rather repetitive existence. They enter a cell, hijack its machinery to turn it into a viral copy