Month: March 2022

The Covid-19 pandemic now appears to be the worst it has ever been, with daily new cases worldwide topping 800,000 several times over the past “Will Covid-19 vaccines protect you against variants? 9 questions about variants, answered.”

The Biden administration has announced that it will work with the World Trade Organization (WTO) to negotiate a deal to suspend intellectual property rights associated “Biden agreed to waive vaccine patents. But will that help get doses out faster?”

The world may have undercounted Covid-19 deaths by a staggering margin, according to an analysis released Thursday by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation “How the world missed more than half of all Covid-19 deaths”

There’s a scene in The West Wing’s second season in which one of the protagonists is told a Chinese satellite is falling to Earth, but “The falling Chinese space rocket is a policy failure”

While here in the US some are tentatively removing their masks and resuming small outdoor gatherings, others around the world are searching for air. In “Why India needs oxygen more urgently than vaccines”

If a waiter at a restaurant brought you a murky, stinky glass of water, that would be unacceptable. But yet, many waiters — at least “Covid-19 proved bad indoor air quality makes us sick. We can fix that.”

Now that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has said that people who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 can shed their masks, there “Vaccine passports can liberate America”

Before 2010, scientists knew very little about how the sensation of touch begins its journey into a person’s consciousness. They knew that nerve endings help “Our amazing sense of touch, explained by a Nobel laureate”

Every year, malaria kills more than 400,000 people, most of them children. There has been significant progress against the disease in the past few decades “Why the WHO approval of the first malaria vaccine is a big deal”

After months of discussion and debate, Democrats are at an impasse on a raft of infrastructure legislation that could make or break President Joe Biden’s “The myth of the climate moderate”