Podcast: Long COVID Questions Answered
Higgins: How do vaccines help? What is the mechanism that a vaccine would help with the symptoms of long COVID? Hamblin: It’s kind of counterintuitive. Iwasaki: Yeah, exactly. So in…
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The Vaccine-Related Blood Clot Mystery Must Be Solved
Some scientists in Europe have wondered whether AstraZeneca’s inclusion of a partial tPA sequence could throw off normal clotting. The European Medicines Agency said in March that there is insufficient…
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Why We Can’t Stop Talking About the Brood X Cicadas
When cicadas emerge, it’s hard for humans to look away. “Like ’em or hate ’em, you cannot ignore them,” John Cooley, a biologist at the University of Connecticut, told me.…
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A Fourth Surge in COVID-19 Cases Is Hitting Unequally
Cases are rising sharply in several different cities, but the patterns look different. In Michigan, some smaller, whiter counties have vaccination rates twice as high as in Detroit, where rising…
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Can I Lie to Get the Vaccine Sooner?
People are definitely fibbing to get the vaccine early, experts say, though no one quite knows the extent of the problem. “I’m hearing a lot of entitled, empowered people, who…
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How COVID-19 Affected People With OCD and Anxiety
OCD can feel utterly enormous, so I found it comforting to talk with others who have it for this story. Jeff Whitmire, who is 44 years old and lives in…
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526,000 Pandemic Anniversaries – The Atlantic
The pandemic will not have one anniversary; it will have millions of them, each commemorating its own private tragedy. They will come to us as the virus did, in waves,…
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The Call That Saved My Father-in-Law’s Life
Cavan / RUNSTUDIO / Getty / The Atlantic The call came in at 7:42:02 p.m. on March 21, 2019. A man in his early 60s had just sat down to…
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Black Hole Collisions Are Changing Our View of the Cosmos
Yet with a sample size of one, such assertions could only be educated guesses, says Carl Rodriguez, an astrophysicist at Carnegie Mellon University. Now data from LIGO’s latest catalog show…
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Science Alone Won’t Solve Vaccine Dosing
The coronavirus is a moving target, and both vaccines and vaccine protocols will almost certainly need to shift along with it. But some experts worry that the debate over dosing…
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