During COVID the Pentagon ran a secret anti-vax campaign
During the peak of the pandemic the Pentagon ran anti-vax propaganda targeting the Philippines in order to undermine China. However, because the internet is global, it spread.
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FLiRT and LB.1 Subvariants are responsible for thousands of deaths, with 44,000 in less than a year
"More than 44,000 COVID deaths have been reported since October; by contrast, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s weekly flu surveillance report estimates 24,000 flu deaths during the same time."
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Columnist Zeynep Tufekci analyzes communication practices from US officials and their flaws
"Under questioning by a congressional subcommittee, top officials from the National Institutes of Health, along with Dr. Anthony Fauci, acknowledged that some key parts of the public health guidance their agencies promoted during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic were not backed up by solid science. What’s more, inconvenient information was kept from the public — suppressed, denied or disparaged as crackpot nonsense."
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Scientists theorize uptick in aggressive cancers may be tied to COVID
It will probably be many years before the world has conclusive answers about whether the coronavirus is complicit in the surge of cancer cases, but Patel and other concerned scientists are calling on the U.S. government to make this question a priority knowing it could affect treatment and management of millions of cancer patients for decades to come.
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COVID lulls aren't being earned by policy; they're being bought with infections and deaths
"Cases are low right now for one simple reason: most people have recently had COVID. If not during the massive winter JN.1 surge, which infected an estimated 100 million people, then in the previous variant-soup wave of late summer 2023."
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As COVID precautions vanish, people with disabilities struggle with safety and isolation
The pace of COVID fatalities in the U.S. has slowed significantly, with the nation’s death toll standing at more than 1 million people. With precautions like mandatory masking no longer in place, it can seem as if worries about the virus are gone as well. But for many people with disabilities, the threat is still very real. We hear from people in the disability community about their concerns.
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Up to 5.8 million kids have long COVID, study says
"This study was urgently needed because there are so many questions that need to be answered about pediatric long COVID."
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Alarming rise in Americans with long Covid symptoms
CDC data shows nearly 18m people could be living with long Covid even as health agency relaxes isolation recommendations
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Research shows that even mild COVID-19 can lead to the equivalent of seven years of brain aging
there is now abundant evidence that being infected with SARS-CoV-2 – the virus that causes COVID-19 – can affect brain health in many ways.
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"We’re still in a pandemic," says a lead COVID official with the World Health Organization
Rampant COVID Poses New Challenges in the Fifth Year of the Pandemic.