Health

There’s good reason to be optimistic about where the US could be by summer as Covid-19 vaccinations accelerate. But right now, there are several threats looming. And the country is at a crossroads. “On the one hand we are getting vaccines out at a record pace, but on the other hand we have these variants.

Don’t be fooled by the packed beaches and rollback of safety mandates in several states. Covid-19 is still spreading rampantly and must be tackled aggressively if we want life to get back to normal soon, Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNN on Sunday. Even though daily new cases have dropped since January, “over the last couple

In Oprah Winfrey’s bombshell interview Sunday with Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, one takeaway was that help for mental health is still hard to get — even if you’re part of the British royal family. In Meghan’s first public comments since she and her husband, Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, stepped down as senior

What was nice about the Before Times was that, for most people, social interactions and outings could be carefree. We miss them, and that’s a big reason why we long for the pandemic to end. But when life stabilizes in the new, new normal, how will we really feel about resuming activities we used to

US health officials say how Americans act in the coming weeks could help determine how the Covid-19 pandemic continues to unfold. While infection numbers are down, they’re still far too high to let up on safety measures, experts warn. And while current Covid-19 trends may be encouraging, variants of the virus circulating in the US

As spring break travel picks up and states increasingly drop Covid-19 restrictions, Dr. Francis Collins, the National Institutes of Health director, is pleading with people to keep using masks regardless of prevailing rules. “If there ever was a time to put on the mask, this is it,” Collins told MSNBC’s Ali Velshi on Saturday. Collins’

I spent the week of March 9, 2020, in the office, sitting across from my patients, one after another, in my office. We talked about relationship issues, depression and anxiety, and the other stressors of everyday life. No distance, no masks. There was this vague idea of an impending pandemic. But we felt if anything

Covid-19 numbers may be on the decline in the United States after a year of collective grief. But with tens of thousands of deaths expected over the next few months, experts are warning Americans not to drop their guard just yet. “I think we are going to get fooled,” Dr. Paul Offit, director of the

At the height of a luminous career in genetics, Ron Davis, professor of biochemistry and genetics at Stanford University in California, switched to researching a disease that many of his colleagues had never heard of. Prior to that shift seven years ago, his breakthrough work had led to dozens of patents and laid the groundwork

During the Covid-19 pandemic, there have been “concerning” declines in childhood vaccinations against other infectious diseases, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said during a White House briefing on Friday. Walensky urged parents to make sure their children are up to date on their vaccines. “On-time vaccination throughout