Month: June 2021

Emergent BioSolutions was awarded a $628 million federal contract with no competitive bidding. Top executives received big bonuses while factories mostly sat idle and tens of millions of Covid-19 doses were thrown away. View original article Contributor: Sharon LaFraniere, Chris Hamby and Rebecca R. Ruiz

His development of advanced analytical techniques formed the basis for M.R.I. technology used in hospitals and helped chemists determine the structure of complex molecules. View original article Contributor: Emily Anthes

Her legs were crushed when she was trapped for six hours in Manhattan in 1985. Miraculously, she was able to walk again. View original article Contributor: Sam Roberts

People who start to exercise before or during middle age typically save from $824 to $1,874 annually on health care costs after retirement. View original article Contributor: Gretchen Reynolds

A year and a half into the pandemic, the condition known as Long COVID continues to stump doctors. A significant number of patients develop long-term symptoms after catching COVID-19, but it hasn’t been clear why that happens, who is likely to get sick or even how many people continue to suffer. A large new study … Read more

The COVID-19 pandemic is increasingly becoming an arms race among the emerging variants of the virus, and at the moment, there’s no question which one is winning: the Delta variant—formally known as B.1.617.2—one of four strains to have emerged originally in India. It was just last month that the World Health Organization labeled Delta a … Read more

Claudia Campos, 34, wanted there to be no doubt about why she continues to wear a face mask at the Florida car rental company where she works. She decided to screen-print a mask that telegraphs her thoughts. “I’m vaccinated,” it reads, “but I’m not ready to trust you!” Courtesy of Claudia Campos Campos’ slogan distills … Read more

For the American public, one of the first signs of the COVID-19 pandemic to come was a tragedy at a nursing home near Seattle. On Feb. 29, 2020, officials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Washington State announced the U.S. had its first outbreak of the novel coronavirus. Three people … Read more

Blood samples from volunteers show virus antibodies; researchers can’t rule out false positives. View original article Contributor: Joel Achenbach