SciCheck Digest Dozens of studies support the use of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, which have a good safety profile and work well in preventing severe disease and death. Yet, citing…
Covid is no longer a global public health emergency, the World Health Organization said Friday. The WHO issued the declaration more than three years ago, on Jan. 30, 2020. WHO…
The original COVID-19 vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna no longer are authorized in the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday, April 18. Now, both companies’ newer…
President Joe Biden won’t veto a Republican-led measure to end the national COVID emergency, despite having expressed strong objections against it earlier this year, ensuring the bill is on an…
Geneva – The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that it is no longer recommending additional COVID-19 vaccine booster doses for regular, medium-risk adults as the benefit was marginal. For…
Brazil’s government on Tuesday reported the 700,000th death from COVID-19 in the South American nation, which has the second most victims of the virus after the United States. Brazilian health…
Data from the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, briefly uploaded to a global database by Chinese scientists, gives crucial information on the outbreak's origins, including of an animal market…
The World Health Organization rebuked Chinese officials Friday for withholding research that may link COVID-19’s origin to wild animals, asking why the data had not been made available three…
The House of Representatives has made a sweeping show of bipartisan support by voting unanimously to declassify U.S. intelligence information about the origins of COVID-19. This historic vote, which…
SciCheck Digest Vaccination and infection both provide protective immunity to COVID-19, particularly against severe disease. But gaining immunity through infection is far riskier than vaccination. Posts citing a new Lancet…
A study to be presented at the American College of Cardiology’s Annual Scientific Session “Together With the World Congress of Cardiology” has found that long COVID, which is characterized by…
COVID-19′s origins remain hazy. Three years after the start of the pandemic, it’s still unclear whether the coronavirus that causes the disease leaked from a lab or spread to humans from…
For the second day in a row, China on Wednesday dismissed U.S. suggestions that the COVID-19 pandemic may have been triggered by a virus that leaked from a Chinese laboratory.…
A crucial question has eluded governments and health agencies around the world since the COVID-19 pandemic began: Did the virus originate in animals or leak from a Chinese lab? Now,…
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first combination test for flu and COVID-19 that can be used at home, giving consumers an easy way to determine if a…
The U.S. Navy is rolling back requirements for COVID-19 vaccines, axing the consideration of vaccination status when making decisions about the deployment of sailors. The decision by the Navy reverses…
Immunity acquired from a Covid infection provides strong, lasting protection against the most severe outcomes of the illness, according to research published Thursday in The Lancet — protection, experts say,…
People infected with COVID-19 during the omicron era face an increased risk of diabetes and related diseases, according to a study showing that long-term dangers of the virus have persisted…
A new congressional panel created by House Republicans launched an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic Monday by requesting documents and testimony from health and intelligence officials who…
A single-injection antiviral treatment for newly infected COVID-19 patients reduced the risk of hospitalization by half in a large-scale clinical trial, according to a study published on Wednesday. Stanford University…