Resources
- WHO COVID-19 Mythbusters
- Personal Protective Equipment Info for the General Public
- Scientific Consensus on the COVID-19 Pandemic: The John Snow Memorandum (Vaccination and Herd Immunity)
- NYT and LSHTM VaC Vaccine Trackers / CDC FAQs About COVID-19 Vaccination
- CDC Guidance for Holiday Celebrations and Small Gatherings / How To Quarantine After Holiday Travel
Explainers
- Mask Mechanics and Efficacy Visualized (NYT)
- The Data on Mask Efficacy (Nature)
- SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Visualized (El País) [CDC Brief]
- Importance of Ventilation Visualized (NYT)
- COVID-19 Testing (Medium)
- Nonpharmaceutical Interventions (NYT) [Swiss Cheese]
- Why the Coronavirus Is So Confusing (The Atlantic)
- COVID-19: A Day in the ER (Video)
- SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines Explained: JAMA and PBS (Videos)
- Vaccines Visualized: Pfizer, Moderna, J&J, AZ, & Others
- Pfizer Vaccine Safety and Efficacy Visualized (WaPo)
- Vaccinated Asymptomatic Spread Visualized (Guardian)
- SARS-CoV-2 Infection (Video)
- SARS-CoV-2 Infection Timeline/Course (NYT)
- How Coronavirus Damages Your Sense of Smell (WSJ)
- Lungs and Mechanical Ventilation Visualized (NYT)
- Immunology (The Atlantic) [Infographics / In-Depth (SciAm)]
- Declining Antibody Levels (NYT)
- SARS-CoV-2 Molecular Biology Visualized (SciAm)
- Viral Structure of SARS-CoV-2 and its Variants (NYT)
- SARS-CoV-2 Mutations and Variants (NPR/WSJ)
- Vaccine Distribution (Video) [Infographic / Visualization]
- Herd Immunity (NYT)
- Vaccine Efficacy (NYT)
News Sources
- STAT News – COVID-19
- UMN Center for Infectious Disease Research (CIDRAP) – COVID-19 News
- Nature News – Coronavirus Research Updates
- Science – Coronavirus Research, Commentary, and News
- CDC COVID-19 Science Updates
- Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED) – Coronavirus Updates
Notable Articles
2021
- COVID-19 Resources Will Stop Posting Regular Updates on March 10, 2021
- 03/17 – Science: Many People Who Die of COVID-19 Have the Virus in Their Hearts (More Info)
- 03/10 – Scientific American: What the CDC Guidelines for Vaccinated People Mean (CDC Recommendations)
- 03/09 – Nature: Pregnancy and COVID: What the Data Say
- 03/05 – NYT: The Virus Spread Where Restaurants Reopened or Mask Mandates Were Absent (CDC MMWR Paper)
- 03/03 – JAMA: The Future of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Will SARS-CoV-2 Become a Recurrent Seasonal Infection?
- 03/03 – NYT: Plan to Ditch the Mask After Vaccination? Not So Fast
- 03/03 – NYT: What Do Vaccine Efficacy Numbers Actually Mean? (Excellent Lay Explanation)
- 03/01 – NYT: Virus Variant in Brazil [P.1/501Y.V3] Infected Many Who Had Already Recovered From COVID-19
- 03/01 – Scientific American: To Beat COVID, We May Need a Good Shot in the Nose
- 03/01 – TheScientist: Sex Differences in Immune Responses to Viral Infection
- 02/28 – Brief19: Major NIH-Funded Trial of Convalescent Plasma in Covid-19 Outpatients Stopped Early Due to Futility
- 02/27 – CIDRAP: FDA Authorizes J&J 1-Dose COVID Vaccine (More Info)
- 02/27 – FDA: FDA Issues Emergency Use Authorization for Third COVID-19 Vaccine (More Info)
- 02/26 – NYT: Why Opening Windows Is a Key to Reopening Schools (Excellent Lay Explanation)
- 02/24 – NYT: Johnson & Johnson’s Vaccine Works Well and May Curb Virus Spread (More Info)
- 02/24 – STAT News: Moderna Ready to Test Version of COVID-19 Vaccine Aimed at Worrisome Variant [50Y.V2]
- 02/23 – NYT: Does the Vaccine Stop Transmission? Vaccination to Prevent COVID-19 vs SARS-CoV-2 Infection
- 02/23 – Nature: Superspreading Drives the COVID Pandemic — And Could Help to Tame It
- 02-22 – PHE: First Real-world Data Shows Pfizer Vaccine Provides High Levels of Protection From [Infection] (Preprint)
- 02/22 – NYT: Vaccines Adapted for Variants Will Not Need Lengthy Testing, F.D.A. Says
- 02/22 – NYT: The Pandemic Is Receding in the Worst Hotspots. Will It Last?
- 02/22 – NYT: Entering Uncharted Territory, the U.S. Counts 500,000 COVID-Related Deaths
- 02/21 – WaPo: 500,000 Coronavirus Deaths Visualized: A Number Almost Too Large to Grasp (Visualization)
- 02/21 – NYT: U.S. Virus Deaths [Hit] 500,000 in Just One Year
- 02/20 – NYT: When Could the United States Reach Herd Immunity? It’s Complicated (Excellent Lay Explanation)
- 02/19 – Nature: Can COVID Vaccines Stop Transmission? Scientists Race to Find Answers
- 02/19 – NYT: People Who Have Had Covid Should Get Single Vaccine Dose, Studies Suggest
- 02/18 – CIDRAP: Pfizer, Moderna Vaccines May Be Less Effective Against B.1.351 [501Y.V3] Variant (More Info)
- 02/18 – CIDRAP: Vitamin D Not Effective in Moderate to Severe COVID, Study Finds (JAMA Paper)
- 02/18 – CIDRAP: Amid COVID-19, US Life Expectancy Sees Biggest Drop Since WWII
- 02/17 – CIDRAP: Experts Push CDC, White House to Address COVID-19 Aerosol Spread
- 02/16 – Nature: The Coronavirus Is Here to Stay — Here’s What That Means
- 02/16 – Nature: Some Antibodies Can Dampen Antiviral Defences in People With Severe COVID
- 02/14 – NYT: 7 Virus Variants Found in U.S. Carrying the Same Mutation (More Info)
- 02/13 – NYT: U.K. Virus Variant [501Y.V1] Is Probably Deadlier, Scientists Say (More Info)
- 02/12 – The Economist: When COVID-19 Vaccines Meet the New Variants of the Virus
- 02/11 – CIDRAP: CDC Alters COVID-19 Quarantine Guidance for Vaccine Recipients (CDC Quarantine Info)
- 02/11 – CIDRAP: Tocilizumab [Adjuvant Therapy] Cuts Death Rate in Severe COVID-19, Study Finds (Preprint)
- 02/10 – NYT: Half of U.S. Coronavirus Deaths Have Come Since Nov. 1
- 02/08 – NYT: Coronavirus Variants and Mutations (Excellent Lay Explanation)
- 02/07 – Nature: Rapid Coronavirus Tests: A Guide for the Perplexed
- 02/07 – Science: S Africa Suspends Use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Vaccine After It Fails to Stop Virus Variant [501Y.V2]
- 02/07 – NYT: Virus Variant First Found in Britain [501Y.V1] Now Spreading Rapidly in U.S. (More Info)
- 02/05 – Medscape: FDA Curbs Use of COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma, Citing New Data (FDA Brief)
- 02/04 – WaPo: Johnson & Johnson Seeks Emergency FDA Authorization for Single-[Dose] Coronavirus Vaccine
- 02/04 – STAT News: NFL Should Discourage People from Indoor Super Bowl Parties
- 02/02 – CIDRAP: Russia’s COVID Vaccine 92% Effective, Even in Those Over 60 (Lancet Paper)
- 02/02 – CIDRAP: New Variant COVID Findings Fuel More Worries About Vaccine Resistance (More Info)
- 02/02 – Nature: Coronavirus Is in the Air — There’s Too Much Focus on Surfaces
- 02/02 – CIDRAP: White House to Begin Shipping COVID-19 Vaccines to Drug Outlets
- 01/30 – WSJ: How Coronavirus Mutations Are Taking Over (Excellent Lay Explanation / More Info)
- 01/29 – STAT News: J&J One-Dose Vaccine Is 66% Effective [85% at Preventing Death] (J&J Statement / More Info)
- 01/29 – Nature: COVID-19 Rarely Spreads Through Surfaces. So Why Are We Still Deep Cleaning?
- 01/28 – NYT: Novavax Vaccine Works Well, Except [Possibly] on the [501Y.V2] Variant in S. Africa (Novavax Statement)
- 01/28 – NYT: The New Virus Variants Make the Next 6 Weeks Crucial
- 01/28 – STAT News: New Coronavirus Variants Call for Intensified Surveillance, Control, and Vaccination Efforts
- 01/28 – CIDRAP: South African COVID Variant [501Y.V2] Detected in South Carolina
- 01/28 – CIDRAP: Expert Warns About National Oxygen Supply
- 01/28 – NYT: Pregnant Women Get Conflicting Advice on COVID-19 Vaccines
- 01/28 – NYT How the Coronavirus Turns the Body Against Itself [Autoantibodies] (More Info)
- 01/26 – STAT News: Regeneron Says Monoclonal Antibodies Prevent COVID-19 in Study (Regeneron Statement)
- 01/26 – Science: Vaccine 2.0: Moderna & Other Companies Plan Tweaks To Protect Against New Coronavirus Mutations
- 01/26 – JAMA: Data and Policy to Guide Opening Schools Safely to Limit the Spread of SARS-CoV-2 Infection (More Data)
- 01/25 – WaPo: First U.S. Case of Highly Transmissible Brazil [501Y.V3] Variant Identified in Minnesota (More Info)
- 01/25 – NYT: Moderna Says Vaccine Still Protects Against Virus Variants (Moderna Statement / More Info)
- 01/25 – STAT News: In a Major Setback, Merck to Stop Developing Its Two COVID-19 Vaccines and Focus on Therapies
- 01/22 – BBC: New UK Variant [501Y.V1] ‘May Be More Deadly’ (NERVTAG Paper / More Info)
- 01/22 – WaPo: Denmark Is Sequencing All Coronavirus Samples and Has an Alarming View of the U.K. Variant [501Y.V1]
- 01/22 – New Scientist: COVID-19 Outbreak in Manaus Suggests Herd Immunity May Not Be Possible (Lancet Paper)
- 01/21 – CIDRAP: [ECDC] Warn[s] of Threat to Europe from Variant COVID-19 (ECDC Risk Assessment)
- 01/21 – The Economist: How Fast Can Vaccination Against COVID-19 Make a Difference? [Data from Israel]
- 01/21 – STAT News: Eli Lilly Says Its Monoclonal Antibody Prevented COVID-19 in [BLAZE-2] Trial (Lilly Statement)
- 01/20 – NYT: Emerging Coronavirus Variants May Pose Challenges to Vaccines (More Info)
- 01/19 – Forbes: 1 of Every 800 People in the U.S. Has Died
- 01/19 – Nature: Rogue Antibodies Could Be Driving Severe COVID-19
- 01/18 – NBC News: U.S. Surpasses 400,000 COVID Deaths Nearly One Year After Nation’s First Confirmed Case
- 01/18 – Newsweek: L452R COVID Variant in California Linked to Several Outbreaks a ‘Red Flag’ (More Info)
- 01/18 – NYT: Inside the B.1.1.7 Coronavirus [Lineage] (Excellent Lay Explanation)
- 01/18 – BMJ: Vaccinating Against COVID-19 in People Who Report Allergies
- 01/17 – AP: Chinese City Reports Coronavirus Found on Ice Cream
- 01/15 – TIME: 2 Million People Have Died From COVID-19 Worldwide
- 01/15 – Vox: Still Going to the Grocery Store? With New Virus Variants Spreading, It’s Probably Time to Stop.
- 01/15 – Science: New Coronavirus Variants Could Cause More Reinfections, Require Updated Vaccines
- 01/15 – STAT News: New Coronavirus Variant Could Become Dominant Strain in March, CDC Warns (CDC MMWR Paper)
- 01/15 – BBC: ‘Convalescent Plasma No Benefit to Hospital Patients’ [RECOVERY Trial] (RECOVERY Statement)
- 01/14 – BMJ: [SARS-CoV-2] Infection Provides 83% Protection for 5 Months; May Not Stop Transmission (PHE Release)
- 01/13 – STAT News: Data Fuel Debate Over Whether J&J’s One-Dose COVID Vaccine Will Measure Up (NEJM Paper)
- 01/12 – CIDRAP: US COVID-19 Vaccine Strategy Pivots to Target Those 65 and Up
- 01/11 – Reuters: [REMAP-CAP] Trial of COVID-19 [Convalescent] Plasma [Halted,] Finds No Benefit in Severely Ill
- 01/10 – SCMP: Chinese Study Finds Most Patients Still Show Signs of ‘Long COVID’ Six Months Later (Lancet Paper)
- 01/07 – Vox: How the New COVID-19 Variants [E484K] Could Pose a Threat to Vaccination (More Info)
- 01/06 – U.S. Is Blind to Contagious New Virus Variant, Scientists Warn
- 01/05 – Science: Viral Mutations May Cause Another ‘Very, Very Bad’ COVID-19 Wave, Scientists Warn
- 01/03 – WSJ: ‘It’s a Desperate Time’: Crush of COVID-19 Patients Strains U.S. Hospitals
- 01/02 – The Economist: SARS-CoV-2 Is [Becoming More Transmissible] (Good Explanation, Some Incorrect Info / More Info)
2020
- 12/30 – NYT: Discovery of Virus Variant [N501Y.V2] in Colorado and California Alarms Scientists (More Info)
- 12/28 – CIDRAP: COVID Antibodies [Appear To] Fend Off Reinfection for [At Least] 6 Months (More Info / NEJM Paper)
- 12/28 – New Yorker: The Plague Year (Audio / Long Read)
- 12/27 – NYT: 1 of Every 1,000 People in the U.S. Has Died
- 12/24 – Reuters: Special Report–How a British COVID-19 Vaccine Went from Pole Position to Troubled Start
- 12/23 – CIDRAP: Two Studies Find That COVID-19 Antibodies Last 8 Months (More Info)
- 12/23 – CIDRAP: No Mom-to-Baby Virus Spread Noted in Late-Pregnancy COVID-19 (More Info)
- 12/23 – NYT: See Where U.S. Intensive Care Units Are Filling Up
- 12/22 – NYT: Trial of High-Dose Blood Thinners in I.C.U. Coronavirus Patients Is Halted (NIH Statement)
- 12/22 – STAT News: Beware the Danger of ‘Vaccine Euphoria’
- 12/20 – Science: Mutant Coronavirus in the UK Sets Off Alarms But Its Importance Remains Unclear (More Info / NYT FAQ)
- 12/20 – NYT: The Coronavirus Is Mutating. What Does That Mean for Us? (More Info)
- 12/18 – NYT: F.D.A. Authorizes Moderna Vaccine, Adding Millions of Doses to U.S. Supply (More Info)
- 12/17 – CIDRAP: Data Reveal Deadliness of COVID-19, Even in Young Adults (Ann Intern Med Paper)
- 12/16 – NYT: People Thought Covid-19 Was Relatively Harmless for Younger Adults. They Were Wrong. (JAMA Paper)
- 12/15 – NPR: FDA Authorizes 1st Home [OTC] Coronavirus [Antigen] Test (FDA Authorization)
- 12/15 – NYT: Moderna Vaccine Is Highly Protective and Prevents Severe Covid-19, Data Show (FDA Briefing Documents)
- 12/14 – Scientific American: The Immune Havoc of COVID-19 (Infographic / Excellent Explanation)
- 12/14 – STAT News: The Coronavirus at 1: A Year into the Pandemic, What Scientists Know
- 12/14 – The Atlantic: How Science Beat the Virus
- 12/11 – NYT: FDA Clears Pfizer Vaccine, and Millions of Doses Will Be Shipped Right Away (More Info)
- 12/11 – NYT: Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women May Opt to Receive the Vaccine
- 12/11 – NYT: How Many Vaccine Doses Will Your State Get?
- 12/10 – CIDRAP: COVID-19 Overwhelming Hospitals, Morgues in Us, Other Nations
- 12/09 – NYT: ‘There’s No Place for Them to Go’: I.C.U. Beds Near Capacity Across U.S.
- 12/09 – LA Times: Infected After 5 Minutes, From 20 Feet Away [Indoor Dining] (J Korean Med Sci Paper)
- 12/08 – WaPo: FDA Review Confirms Safety and Efficacy of Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine (Excellent Lay Explanation)
- 12/08 – NYT: Pfizer’s Vaccine Offers Strong Protection After First Dose (FDA Briefing Documents)
- 12/08 – STAT News: FDA Scientists Endorse ‘Highly Effective’ Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Ahead of Key Panel
- 12/08 – STAT News: Detailed Data on AstraZeneca-Oxford Vaccine Show It Has Moderate Efficacy (Lancet Paper)
- 12/08 – NYT: Here’s Why Vaccinated People Still Need to Wear a Mask
- 12/07 – NYT: How the Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine Works (Excellent Lay Explanation)
- 12/07 – NYT: How Moderna’s Vaccine Works (Excellent Lay Explanation)
- 12/06 – New Yorker: Countdown to a Coronavirus Vaccine (Audio / Excellent Lay Explanation)
- 12/06 – WSJ: A Gamble Pays Off in ‘Spectacular Success’: How the Leading Coronavirus Vaccines [Work] (Video)
- 12/04 – CIDRAP: CDC: 1 in 5 Hospitalized Younger Adults with COVID-19 Need ICU Care (Clin Infect Dis Paper)
- 12/04 – NYT: Could a Blood Test Show if a Covid-19 Vaccine Works? (Nature Paper)
- 12/02 – CIDRAP: CDC [Proposes Shortened] COVID Quarantine [Method], Adds Holiday Travel Advice
- 12/02 – NYT: Moderna Plans to Begin Testing Its Coronavirus Vaccine in Children
- 12/02 – CIDRAP: UK Approves Pfizer-BioNTech COVID Vaccine As Global Cases Top 64 Million
- 12/02 – Wired: How mRNA Went from a Scientific Backwater to a Pandemic Crusher
- 11/30 – CIDRAP: COVID-Related Nursing Shortages Hit Hospitals Nationwide
- 11/30 – CIDRAP: Black Kids Bear Brunt of Severe COVID-Linked Syndrome [MIS-C] (JAMA Paper)
- 11/30 – NYT: Moderna Applies for Emergency FDA [Authorization] for Its [SARS-CoV-2] Vaccine
- 11/29 – Science: Federal System for Tracking Hospital Beds and COVID-19 Patients Provides Questionable Data
- 11/28 – AP: Leave a Chair Empty at the Family Christmas or Face the Possibility of Having That Chair Empty Forever
- 11/28 – CBS: U.S. [COVID-19] Hospitalizations Top 90,000 for the First Time with 50 Americans Dying Every Hour
- 11/27 – NYT: COVID Overload: U.S. Hospitals Are Running Out of Beds for Patients
- 11/26 – The Atlantic: A Tragic Beginning to the Holiday Season
- 11/25 – NYT: After Admitting Mistake, AstraZeneca Faces Difficult Questions About Its Vaccine
- 11/25 – Wired: Does the AstraZeneca Vaccine Also Stop Covid Transmission?
- 11/25 – WaPo: As Americans Prepare to Gather for Thanksgiving, the World Watches with Dread and Disbelief
- 11/25 – The Conversation: Data from 45 Countries Show Containing COVID vs Saving the Economy Is a False Dichotomy
- 11/24 – NYT: Watching What We Flush Could Help Keep a Pandemic Under Control
- 11/23 – STAT News: AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 Vaccine Is 70% Effective on Average (Press Release / Lancet Paper)
- 11/22 – Reuters: FDA Grants Emergency Use Authorization to Regeneron Antibody [Casirivimab/Imdevimab] (FDA EUA)
- 11/22 – NYT: Now the U.S. Has Lots of Ventilators, but Too Few Specialists to Operate Them
- 11/20 – WHO: WHO Recommends Against the Use of Remdesivir in COVID-19 Patients (More Info)
- 11/20 – STAT News: Pfizer, BioNTech to Submit Formal Application to FDA to Authorize COVID-19 Vaccine
- 11/20 – NYT: 2 Companies Say Their Vaccines Are 95% Effective. What Does That Mean?
- 11/20 – STAT News: As [Bamlanivimab] Arrives, Hospitals Scramble to Solve Challenges (More Info)
- 11/20 – NYT: What 635 Epidemiologists Are Doing for Thanksgiving
- 11/19 – NYT: Hospitals and Health Care Workers Issue a Call to Arms for Wearing Masks (More Info)
- 11/18 – STAT News: Pfizer and BioNTech to Submit COVID-19 Vaccine Data to FDA As Full Results Show 95% Efficacy
- 11/18 – NYT: The Coronavirus Is Airborne Indoors. Why Are We Still Scrubbing Surfaces? (More Info)
- 11/17 – NYT: FDA Authorizes the First At-Home [RT-LAMP] Coronavirus Test (FDA EUA)
- 11/17 – CIDRAP: US Veterans with COVID-Related Kidney Injury at 6.7 Times Risk of Death (CJASN Paper)
- 11/16 – The Atlantic: Cancel Thanksgiving
- 11/16 – NYT: Early Data Show Moderna’s Coronavirus Vaccine Is 94.5% Effective (Press Release)
- 11/13 – WSJ: How the Swiss Cheese Model Can Help Us Beat COVID-19 (Swiss Cheese Model)
- 11/11 – CIDRAP: US Hits Record for COVID-19 Hospital Cases
- 11/11 – CIDRAP: Europe’s Deaths Spike in Wake of Second COVID-19 Surge
- 11/11 – CIDRAP: Half of Recovered COVID-19 Patients Report Lingering Fatigue (PLOS One Paper)
- 11/11 – Nature: Why Do COVID Death Rates Seem to Be Falling?
- 11/10 – NYT: The Children Never Had the Coronavirus. So Why Did They Have Antibodies? (More Info)
- 11/10 – NYT: New Type of [T Cell] Test May Better Discern Immunity to the Coronavirus
- 11/10 – STAT News: For Eli Lilly’s Newly Authorized Antibody [Bamlanivimab], A Dosing Discrepancy (More Info)
- 11/10 – STAT News: mRNA: How a Once-Dismissed Idea Became a Leading Technology in the COVID Vaccine Race
- 11/09 – NYT: Eli Lilly’s Antibody Treatment [Bamlanivimab] Gets Emergency FDA [Authorization] (FDA EUA / More Info)
- 11/09 – CIDRAP: Prepandemic Coronavirus Antibodies May React to COVID-19 (More Info)
- 11/09 – STAT News: Vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech Is Strongly Effective, Early Data from Large Trial Indicate (Release)
- 11/08 – NYT: An Explanation for Some COVID-19 Deaths [Cytokine Storm] May Not Be Holding Up (More Info)
- 11/08 – NYT: Covid Infections in Animals Prompt Scientific Concern (More Info)
- 11/05 – NYT: Nasal Spray Prevents Covid Infection in Ferrets, Study Finds (Preprint Paper)
- 11/04 – CIDRAP: Postmortem Lungs of COVID-19 Patients Show Massive Damage (EBioMedicine Paper)
- 11/04 – NYT: Denmark Will Kill All Farmed Mink, Citing Coronavirus Infections (Science Paper / More Info)
- 11/03 – CIDRAP: Studies Detail Risk of Preterm Birth, Severe COVID-19 in Pregnant Women (More Info)
- 11/02 – CIDRAP: Study Shows Kidney Injury in 26% of [Hospitalized] COVID-19 Patients, Mortality Risk (PLOS Med Paper)
- 11/02 – STAT News: Dexamethasone in [Non-Hospitalized] COVID-19 Patients May Do More Harm Than Good
- 11/02 – CIDRAP: Confronting the Notion That Face Masks Reduce COVID ‘Dose’
- 10/30 – NYT: Masks Work. Really. We’ll Show You How. (Excellent Lay Explanation)
- 10/30 – Science: Will SARS-CoV-2 Become Endemic?
- 10/29 – NYT: Death Rates Have Dropped for Seriously Ill Covid Patients [Due to Better Medical Management]
- 10/28 – El País: A Room, a Bar and a Classroom: How the Coronavirus Is Spread Through the Air (Excellent Lay Explanation)
- 10/27 – NYT: Why You Shouldn’t Worry About Studies Showing Waning Coronavirus Antibodies (Excellent Lay Explanation)
- 10/27 – NYT: Eli Lilly’s Antibody Treatment Does Not Work on Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19 (Lilly Statement)
- 10/22 – STAT News: Blood Plasma Showed No Benefit in COVID-19 Patients in Trial (BMJ Paper)
- 10/20 – CIDRAP: Experts: Don’t Count on Mild Flu Season amid COVID-19
- 10/20 – CIDRAP: Studies Offer Little Hope for Tocilizumab in Treating COVID (JAMA Papers)
- 10/20 – Nature: Genomics Ties University COVID Cases to Care-Home Deaths (Preprint Paper)
- 10/16 – Science: Remdesivir and Interferon Fall Flat in WHO Megastudy of COVID-19 Treatments (SOLIDARITY Trial Data)
- 10/16 – NYT: Pfizer Says It Won’t Seek Vaccine Authorization Before Mid-November
- 10/13 – STAT News: NIH Paused Eli Lilly COVID-19 [Monoclonal] Antibody Trial Because of Safety Concerns
- 10/13 – CIDRAP: Study Finds Low Risk to Infants of Moms with COVID-19 (JAMA Peds Paper)
- 10/12 – CIDRAP: Convalescent Plasma Doesn’t Cut Death, Hospital Stays in COVID Patients (Clin Infect Dis Paper)
- 10/09 – NYT: The Coronavirus Unveiled (Excellent Lay Explanation)
- 10/08 – NYT: After a Hospital Stay for Covid, Many Face Months of Rehabilitation
- 10/07 – NYT: Regeneron Asks FDA for Emergency [Authorization] for [their SARS-CoV-2 Monoclonal Antibody]
- 10/07 – NBC: Eli Lilly Requests Emergency [Authorization] for Its COVID-19 [Monoclonal] Antibody
- 10/06 – Nature: Face Masks: What the Data Say (Excellent Lay Explanation)
- 10/06 – CIDRAP: Study Finds Intubation, Extubation Produce Fewer Aerosols than a Cough (Anesthesia Paper / ICHE Paper)
- 10/06 – CIDRAP: Study: HIV Drug of No Benefit to Hospitalized COVID Patients (Lancet Paper)
- 10/05 – CIDRAP: Adults, Too, Develop Rare but Severe COVID-Related Syndrome [MIS-A] (CDC MMWR Paper)
- 10/02 – NYT: Charting a Coronavirus Infection (Excellent Lay Explanation)
- 10/01 – NYT: Companies Ditch Plans for Rapid Coronavirus Spit Tests at Home
- 09/30 – The Atlantic: This Overlooked Variable [By Journalists] Is the Key to the Pandemic
- 09/30 – CIDRAP: Early Results Promising for RNA COVID Vaccine in Older Adults (NEJM Paper)
- 09/29 – Science: One Number Could Help Reveal How Infectious a COVID-19 Patient Is (Clin Infect Dis Paper)
- 09/29 – CIDRAP: AAP Data Spotlight Rise in COVID-19 Cases in US Kids (AAP Report / Pediatrics Paper)
- 09/29 – CIDRAP: College Restarts Tied to COVID-19 Rises in Young Adults (CDC MMWR Paper)
- 09/29 – STAT News: Regeneron’s COVID-19 Antibody May Help Non-Hospitalized Patients Recover Faster (Release)
- 09/29 – CIDRAP: Study Finds 100% Death Rate in COVID-19 Patients After CPR (JAMA Paper)
- 09/26 – CBS: Less than 10% of Americans Had Coronavirus Antibodies As of July, Study Finds (Lancet Paper)
- 09/21 – CIDRAP: Studies Trace COVID-19 Spread to International Flights (More Info)
- 09/16 – NBC: As Schools Spend Big on Temperature Check Tech, Experts Warn: It Won’t Work (JAMA Paper)
- 09/16 – Science: Lilly Reports [Questionable] Results for a [Monoclonal] Antibody Against COVID-19 (BLAZE-1 Trial)
- 09/15 – STAT News: CDC Study: COVID-19 Complications Killed 121 Americans Under Age 21 through July
- 09/15 – CIDRAP: American Academy of Pediatrics: 15% Increase in Peds COVID-19 Cases Over Past 2 Weeks (AAP Data)
- 09/14 – WaPo: More Cities and States Are Opening Bars & Restaurants Despite Mounting Evidence of Potential Danger
- 09/11 – CIDRAP: Close Case Contact, Dining Out, [and Daycare] Tied to COVID-19 Spread (CDC MMWR Papers)
- 09/09 – NYT: New Study [Reaffirms] the Virus is ‘a Life-threatening Disease in People of All Ages’ (JAMA Intern Med Paper)
- 09/09 – CIDRAP: NSAIDs Like Ibuprofen Not Tied to Severe COVID-19, Death (PLOS Med Paper)
- 09/08 – Nature: The Coronavirus is Mutating — Does it Matter?
- 09/04 – Nature: Coronavirus Reinfections: Three Questions Scientists Are Asking
- 09/03 – CMAJ News: Have We Misjudged the Role of Kids in Spreading COVID-19?
- 09/02 – CIRAP: Studies, WHO Back Steroid Use in Very Ill COVID-19 Patients (More Info)
- 09/01 – STAT News: U.S. Advisory Group Lays Out Detailed Recommendations on How to Prioritize COVID-19 Vaccine
- 09/01 – NYT: Face Shields and Valved Masks Offer More Comfort but [No] Protection (Phys Fluids Paper / CDC Recs)
- 08/31 – CIDRAP: Yet More Data Support COVID-19 Aerosol Transmission (More Info)
- 08/27 – CIDRAP: Studies Detail Conjunctivitis in Kids, Adults with COVID-19 (More Info)
- 08/24 – CIDRAP: Remdesivir of Scant Benefit in Hospitalized COVID Patients, Study Finds (JAMA Paper)
- 08/24 – Science: Some People Can Get the Pandemic Virus Twice. That Is No Reason to Panic (Clin Infect Dis Paper)
- 08/20 – Chosun: [Indoor Starbucks Linked to Outbreak of 66 COVID-19 Cases, Masked Employees Spared] (English Article)
- 08/20 – CIDRAP: Feds OK COVID-19 Tests Without FDA Approval (HHS Info)
- 08/20 – CIDRAP: Kids with COVID Have More Viral RNA in Their Airways than Adults Do (J Pediatr Paper)
- 08/19 – CIDRAP: COVID-19 Antibody Levels Vary Widely in Recovered Patients (JAMA Paper)
- 08/18 – CIRAP: Study Finds No Race Difference in COVID-19 Hospital Deaths (JAMA Paper)
- 08/17 – NYT: COVID-19 Is Creating a Wave of Heart Disease (More Info)
- 08/17 – NYT: Coronavirus Doctors Battle Another Scourge: Misinformation
- 08/16 – NYT: Scientists See Signs of Lasting Immunity to COVID-19, Even After Mild Infections
- 08/15 – STAT News: FDA Clears Saliva Test for COVID-19, Opening Door to Wider Testing
- 08/13 – STAT News: Large Study Suggests Convalescent Plasma Can Treat COVID-19, Doubts Remain (Preprint Paper)
- 08/11 – NYT: ‘A Smoking Gun’: Infectious Coronavirus Retrieved From Hospital Air (Int J Infect Dis Paper)
- 08/11 – Reuters: New Zealand Considers Freight As Possible Source of New Coronavirus Cluster
- 08/11 – Reuters: Coronavirus Found on Frozen Seafood in China
- 08/09 – NPR: COVID-19 May Never Go Away — With or Without A Vaccine
- 08/07 – NYT: Here’s How to Crush the Virus Until Vaccines Arrive
- 08/05 – The Atlantic: Immunology Is Where Intuition Goes to Die (Excellent Lay Explanation)
- 08/04 – The Atlantic: The Coronavirus Is Never Going Away
- 08/04 – STAT News: Novavax’s COVID-19 Vaccine Shows Promising Immune Response, Early Data Show (NEJM Paper)
- 07/31 – Science: How Does SARS-CoV-2 Cause COVID-19?
- 07/31 – NYT: The Coronavirus Infected Hundreds at a Georgia Summer Camp (CDC MMRWR Paper)
- 07/30 – NYT: Johnson & Johnson’s Coronavirus Vaccine Protects Monkeys, Study Finds (Nature Paper)
- 07/30 – The Atlantic: We Need to Talk About Ventilation (CDC Guidance / EPA Recommendations)
- 07/29 – STAT News: School Closures in Spring Linked to Drastic Decrease in COVID-19 Cases and Deaths (JAMA Paper)
- 07/27 – CIDRAP: Phase 3 Trial for Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Begins Amid US Summer Surge (NEJM Primate Study)
- 07/20 – The Atlantic: How Long Does COVID-19 Immunity Last?
- 07/20 – STAT News: Study Provides Glimpse at Efficacy of COVID-19 Vaccine from Oxford-AstraZeneca (Lancet Paper)
- 07/18 – NYT: Older Children Spread the Coronavirus Just as Much as Adults, Large Study Finds (CDC EID Paper)
- 07/18 – WSJ: Face Masks Really Do Matter. The Scientific Evidence Is Growing. (JAMA Paper)
- 07/15 – AP: Profile of a Killer: Unraveling the Deadly New Coronavirus
- 07/14 – NYT: 2 Stylists Had Coronavirus, but Wore Masks. 139 Clients Didn’t Fall Sick. (CDC MMWR Paper)
- 07/14 – STAT News: Phase 1 Data for Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Show it Spurs an Immune Response (NEJM Paper)
- 07/08 – Reuters: WHO Acknowledges ‘Evidence Emerging’ of Airborne Spread of COVID-19 (WHO Brief)
- 07/08 – Nature: Mounting Evidence Suggests Coronavirus Is Airborne — But Health Advice Has Not Caught Up
- 07/04 – NYT: 239 Experts With One Big Claim: The Coronavirus Is Airborne (Letter)
- 07/01 – WaPo: Coronavirus Autopsies: A Story of 38 Brains, 87 Lungs and 42 Hearts
- 07/01 – NPR: A User’s Guide To Masks: What’s Best At Protecting Others (And Yourself) (ACS Nano Paper)
- 07/01 – STAT News: COVID-19 Vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech Shows Positive Results
- 06/16 – RECOVERY Trial Statement: Dexamethasone Reduces Mortality in Severe COVID-19 (More Info)
- 06/10 – NBC: Amid Confusion, WHO Clarifies that COVID-19 Can Be Spread Without Symptoms (More Info)
- 06/09 – WaPo: WHO: Asymptomatic People Usually Don’t Spread Coronavirus. Experts Doubt That. (More Info)
- 06/01 – Nature: What’s the Risk that Animals Will Spread the Coronavirus?
- 05/28 – NYT: The World Is Still Far From Herd Immunity for Coronavirus
- 05/28 – STAT News: Wastewater Testing Gains Traction as a COVID-19 Early Warning System
- 05/22 – Science: T Cells Found in Coronavirus Patients ‘Bode Well’ for Long-term Immunity
- 05/22 – STAT News: Early Study of COVID-19 Vaccine Developed in China Sees Mixed Results
- 05/22 – Nature: Scientists Baffled by Decision to Stop a Pioneering Coronavirus Testing Project
- 05/21 – STAT News: ‘It’s Something I Have Never Seen’: How the COVID-19 Virus Hijacks Cells
- 05/19 – Nature: Coronavirus Vaccine Trials Have their First Results — But Their Promise Is Still Unclear
- 05/18 – The Telegraph: Doubts Over Oxford Vaccine As it Fails to Stop Coronavirus in Animal Trials
- 05/14 – Nature: Dogs Caught Coronavirus From Their Owners, Genetic Analysis Suggests (More Info – Nov 2020)
- 05/08 – NYT: In the Fight to Treat Coronavirus, Your Lungs Are a Battlefield (Excellent Lay Explanation)
- 05/08 – Pediatric News: Novel Inflammatory Syndrome in Children Possibly Linked to COVID-19 (More Info)
- 05/08 – Nature: Coronavirus Blood-clot Mystery Intensifies
- 05/08 – Nature: First CRISPR Test for the Coronavirus Approved in the United States
- 05/07 – Nature: A Strong Antibody Response is Common in People Who’ve Recovered from COVID-19
- 05/06 – NYT: A New Coronavirus Threat to Children (More Info)
- 05/06 – The Atlantic: The Problem With Stories About Dangerous Coronavirus Mutations
- 05/04 – AP: COVID-19 Vaccine Hunt Heats Up Globally, Still No Guarantee
- 05/01 – NYT: What Is ‘Covid Toe’? Maybe a Strange Sign of Coronavirus Infection
- 04/30 – ABC: Some Children with COVID-19 Showing Symptoms Similar to Kawasaki Disease (More Info)
- 04/30 – Nature: Scores of Coronavirus Vaccines are in Competition — How Will Scientists Choose The Best?
- 04/29 – The Atlantic: Why the Coronavirus Is So Confusing (Excellent Lay Explanation)
- 04/29 – Nature: Hopes Rise on Coronavirus Drug Remdesivir
- 04/29 – Reuters: After Aggressive Mass Testing, Vietnam Says It Contains Coronavirus Outbreak
- 04/29 – STAT News: Gilead Says Critical Study of [Remdesivir] Shows Patients are Responding
- 04/27 – NYT: In Race for a Coronavirus Vaccine, an Oxford Group Leaps Ahead
- 04/27 – NPR: CDC Adds 6 Symptoms To Its COVID-19 List
- 04/27 – STAT News: Closely Watched Arthritis Drug (Kevzara) Disappoints as a COVID-19 Treatment, Studies Show
- 04/23 – STAT News: New Data on Gilead’s Remdesivir, Released by Accident, Show No Benefit for Coronavirus Patients
- 04/20 – STAT News: As the Coronavirus Swept Over China, Some Experts were in Denial
- 04/17 – STAT News: Early Peek at Data on Gilead Coronavirus Drug Suggests Patients are Responding to Treatment
- 04/13 – CIDRAP: Study Finds Evidence of COVID-19 in Air, on Hospital Surfaces
- 04/09 – Nature: The COVID-19 Vaccine Development Landscape
- 04/09 – STAT News: Pfizer Says Coronavirus Drug Could Enter Testing by Fall
- 04/08 – STAT News: With Ventilators Running Out, Doctors Say the Machines are Overused for Covid-19
- 04/05 – NYT: Official Accounts Understate the U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll
- 04/03 – CDC EID: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 RNA Detected in Blood Donations
- 04/01 – Nature: Is the Coronavirus Airborne? Experts Can’t Agree
- 03/31 – NYT: Infected but Feeling Fine: The Unwitting Coronavirus Spreaders
- 03/31 – STAT News: A New COVID-19 Problem: Shortages of Medicines Needed for Placing Patients on Ventilators
- 03/29 – NYT: Age Is Not the Only Risk for Severe Coronavirus Disease
- 03/26 – BMJ: COVID-19: FDA Approves Use of Convalescent Plasma to Treat Critically Ill Patients
- 03/26 – Cancer Network: FDA Approves Phase III Clinical Trial of Tocilizumab for COVID-19 Pneumonia
- 03/25 – Al Arabiya: Iceland’s Mass Testing Finds Half of Carriers Show No Symptoms (Supporting Studies)
- 03/24 – WaPo: The Coronavirus Isn’t Mutating Quickly, Suggesting a Vaccine Would Offer Lasting Protection
- 03/23 – STAT News: Doctors Warn an Inability to Smell Could Be a Symptom of COVID-19
- 03/22 – Science Mag: WHO Launches Global Megatrial (SOLIDARITY) of the 4 Most Promising COVID-19 Treatments
- 03/20 – NYT: Coronavirus Could Overwhelm U.S. Without Urgent Action, Estimates Say
- 03/19 – STAT News: Guide to the Coronavirus Drugs and Vaccines in Development
Notable Perspective Pieces
- 03/06 – NYT: ‘At Your Age, It’s the Vaccine or the Grave’
- 02/24 – NYT: Death, Through a Nurse’s Eyes
- 01/15 – STAT News: In LA, Ambulances Circle for Hours and ICUs Are Full. Is This What the Rest of the U.S. Can Expect?
- 12/25 – NYT: Gurneys in the Gift Shop: Inside Southern California’s Overwhelmed Hospitals
- 12/17 – JAMA: Deaths From COVID-19
- 12/04 – WSJ: How to Handle the Covid-19 Vaccine Breakthrough the Right Way
- 11/25 – NYT: Covid Combat Fatigue: Doctors and Nurses Are Running on Empty
- 11/23 – LA Times: On the COVID Frontlines, We’re Tired of Hearing Lame Excuses for Risky Behavior
- 11/17 – Time: How [Widespread Frequent Rapid Antigen Testing] Can Stop the Spread of COVID-19 By Christmas
- 11/13 – The Atlantic: ‘No One Is Listening to Us’
- 10/26 – JAMA: Medicine and Grief During the COVID-19 Era: The Art of Losing
- 10/01 – JAMA: If Not Us, Who? And If Not Now, When? Perspective From a COVID-19 ICU Run by ENT Residents
- 09/22 – NYT: These Coronavirus Trials Don’t Answer the One Question We Need to Know
- 09/11 – NYT: ‘Covid Will Not Win’: Meet the Force Powering Brooklyn Hospital Center
- 08/31 – NYT: Varmus and Shah: It Has Come to This: Ignore the C.D.C.
- 08/10 – NYT: Inside the Fight to Save Houston’s Most Vulnerable
- 07/16 – STAT News: Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children Isn’t the Mystery It’s Made Out to Be
- 07/14 – Chronicle of Higher Education: The CDC Is Wrong: Testing is Essential for Colleges to Reopen Safely
- 06/23 – WaPo: ‘Heroes, Right?’
- 05/27 – Science: Reducing Transmission of SARS-CoV-2
- 05/22 – Science: SARS-CoV2 Vaccines: Slow is Fast
- 05/22 – NYT: Treating Mild Coronavirus Cases Could Help Save Everyone
- 05/19 – Frontline: Inside Italy’s COVID War
- 05/15 – CBS Documentary: Bravery and Hope: 7 Days on the Front Line
- 05/10 – Los Angeles Times: Nurse Without an N95 Mask Raced in to Treat a ‘Code Blue’ Patient. She Died 14 Days Later
- 05/07 – STAT News: Photos: One Day Inside A Boston Hospital’s Response to COVID-19
- 05/04 – Men’s Health: Coronavirus Ground Zero: ‘In 12 Days, the World Had Turned Upside Down’
- 05/01 – NYT: What the Proponents of ‘Natural’ Herd Immunity Don’t Say
- 05/01 – NYT: What if We Already Have a Coronavirus Vaccine?
- 04/29 – WSJ: Young Doctors Struggle to Treat Coronavirus Patients: ‘We Are Horrified and Scared’
- 04/28 – Scientific American: Comparing COVID-19 Deaths to Flu Deaths Is like Comparing Apples to Oranges
- 04/28 – NYT: Hundreds of Miles From Home, Nurses Fight Coronavirus on New York’s Front Lines
- 04/26 – The Atlantic: Doctors Are Holding Up Their End of the Bargain. Society Is Not.
- 04/24 – NEJM: Asymptomatic Transmission, the Achilles’ Heel of Current Strategies to Control Covid-19
- 04/22 – AP: ER Staff Saves Lives, Suffers in Hot Spot
- 04/14 – NYT: I’m an E.R. Doctor in New York. None of Us Will Ever Be the Same.
- 04/13 – NYT: Who Is Immune to the Coronavirus?
- 04/11 – NYT: Life and Death in the ‘Hot Zone’
- 04/09 – NEJM: Developing COVID-19 Vaccines at Pandemic Speed
- 04/03 – WaPo: How Long Will We Doctors Last?
- 04/01 – STAT News: Navigating the COVID-19 Pandemic: We’re Just Clambering Into A Life Raft. Dry Land Is Far Away
- 03/26 – The Atlantic: I’m Treating Too Many Young People for the Coronavirus
- 03/25 – NYT: Trump Wants to ‘Reopen America.’ Here’s What Happens if We Do.
- 03/25 – NYT: ‘People Are Dying’: 72 Hours Inside a N.Y.C. Hospital Battling Coronavirus
- 03/23 – NEJM: The Toughest Triage — Allocating Ventilators in a Pandemic
- 03/21 – ProPublica: A Medical Worker Describes Terrifying Lung Failure From COVID-19 — Even in His Young Patients
- 03/21 – NEJM: At the Epicenter of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Humanitarian Crises in Italy
Videos with Excellent Lay Explanations
- A Simple Breakdown of the COVID-19 Genetic Code
- CDC: How COVID-19 Can Spread in a Community
- How Researchers Will Study COVID-19 Vaccines
- Explainer on How mRNA Vaccines Work
- How and Why Coronaviruses Mutate
Other Media
- The Guardian: U.S. Healthcare Workers Lost on the Frontline
- Science-Based Medicine: The Perils and Pitfalls of “Doing Your Own Research” About COVID-19
- Science-Based Medicine: Smoking and COVID (JAMA Paper)
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