The U.S., Britain, Canada and others are hedging their bets, reserving doses that far outnumber their populations, as many poorer nations struggle to secure enough. View original article Contributor: Megan Twohey, Keith Collins and Katie Thomas
Patients undergoing surgery who listen to soothing talk and music while under anesthesia may wake up feeling less pain. View original article Contributor: Nicholas Bakalar
I never thought I’d miss the fetid odor of garbage and fish wafting through the window of my sixth-floor Chinatown walk-up. View original article Contributor: Suzy Katz
More than 300,000 people in the U.S. have died from COVID-19 as of today—a sobering figure under any circumstance, but particularly given the speed at which the the virus is killing more people. In the past week alone, nearly 17,000 people in the U.S. have died of COVID-19. And with hundreds of thousands of new … Read more
In the early weeks of the U.S. COVID-19 outbreak this spring, technologists pushed forward an idea to help bring the spread of the new virus under control: smartphones could notify users who had potentially been exposed to others with COVID-19, transforming millions of devices into the world’s most efficient army of public health contact tracers. … Read more
In mid-July, the U.S. federal government made an agreement with Pfizer, one of several pharmaceutical companies working to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. The $1.95 billion deal would finance the production and nationwide delivery of 100 million doses of the vaccine, should it be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. That approval came on … Read more
Sandra Lindsay, a critical care nurse in New York, has been caring for coronavirus patients since the start of the pandemic. View original article Contributor: Ben Guarino
A $14-billion partnership between government and industry is spurring the quickest vaccine development in U.S. history. View original article Contributor: Yasmeen Abutaleb
The New York Times would like to hear from people in the U.S. who received a vaccination against Covid-19, or hoped to get one. View original article Contributor: Abby Goodnough
Sustaining the world’s biggest Drosophila collection during the pandemic has been a challenge, but the people in Indiana who supply the insects to labs around the world stay dedicated to the task. View original article Contributor: Cara Giaimo