Baseball stadiums are filling up – but an analysis of the NFL’s 2020 season...
Baseball season is here, and thousands of cheering fans are back in the ballparks after a year of empty seats. Most team
US vaccine rollout was close to optimal at reducing deaths and infections, according to...
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.The big ideaThe Centers for Disease Control and Preve
Being outdoors doesn’t mean you're safe from COVID-19 – a White House event showed...
If you think you’re safe from the coronavirus just because you’re outdoors, think again.While the wind and the large vol
Yes, we should be keeping the healthier hand-washing habits we developed at the start...
People were washing their hands so much early in the pandemic that sensitive skin and soap shortages were common problem
The great polio vaccine mess and the lessons it holds about federal coordination for...
I nervously fell into a long line of fellow first graders in the gymnasium of St. Louis’ Hamilton Elementary School in t
MIS-C is a rare but dangerous illness striking children weeks after they get COVID-19...
While most children who get COVID-19 develop little more than a mild illness, several hundred have ended up in hospital
Evidence shows that, yes, masks prevent COVID-19 – and surgical masks are the way...
Do masks work? And if so, should you reach for an N95, a surgical mask, a cloth mask or a gaiter?Over the past year and
New COVID-19 vaccine warnings don't mean it's unsafe – they mean the system to...
Put into context, the benefits of vaccination still far outweigh the risks of rare adverse events.PenWin/iStock via Gett
Studies link COVID-19 deaths to air pollution, raising questions about EPA's 'acceptable risk'
The pandemic is putting America’s air pollution standards to the test as the COVID-19 death toll rises.The U.S. governme
Genomic sequencing: Here's how researchers identify omicron and other COVID-19 variants
How do scientists detect new variants of the virus that causes COVID-19? The answer is a process called DNA sequencing.
