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A top US vaccine researcher says he doesn't 'blame' unvaccinated people for their skepticism: 'I can see where it can be extremely confusing'
In "Pandemic Inc," author David McSwane traces the edges of some of the darkest, shadiest corners o…
Hilary Brueck
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People say new research proves masks don’t work. That’s bogus.
A new gold-standard review of mask studies suggests we don't know much about how well masks work. D…
Hilary Brueck
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The Omicron selloff was the 2nd-biggest day of retail buying of US stocks ever, research firm says
Retail investors bought a near-record $2.04 billion in stocks during the November 26 market rout, s…
Carla Mozée
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Early research suggests your risk of getting COVID in the next wave is lower if you already had Omicron. Here's everything we know about BA.2 reinfections.
You can get reinfected with BA.2 if you've had BA.1, but according to researchers the risk appears …
Hilary Brueck
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The coronavirus can infect body fat, new research suggests — a clue about obesity's link to severe COVID-19
The coronavirus can directly infect fat cells, perhaps activating a harmful cascade of inflammation…
Aria Bendix,Erin Schumaker
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The government's $5 trillion stimulus gamble mostly paid off - but missed poorer Americans along the way
Using the IRS to send stimulus payments glossed over roughly 12 million Americans with incomes belo…
Ben Winck
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Almost half of Americans used the $1,400 stimulus checks to pay off debt
Former Fed economist Claudia Sahm recently published a paper looking at how the third round of stim…
Madison Hoff
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The Omicron variant appeared to spread between two fully vaccinated people in separate hotel rooms in Hong Kong, early research suggests
Researchers at the University of Hong Kong said the variant most likely spread across a corridor in…
Natalie Musumeci
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Researchers in the UK deliberately exposed 36 people to coronavirus in a first-of-its-kind COVID-19 human challenge trial
Human challenge trials have previously aided in creating vaccines and treatments for diseases such …
Dhany Osman
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New research found COVID-19 vaccines saved more than 240,000 lives in the US and prevented more than 1 million hospitalizations
The research letter published in the journal JAMA Network Open found coronavirus vaccinations also …
Natalie Musumeci
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Covishield immune responses against Covid variants higher than Covaxin: Study
The yet-to-be peer-reviewed study, posted on the preprint server MedRxiv on Friday, also found t…
PTI
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States spent at least $89 million on COVID-19 vaccine lotteries. None of them worked, new research suggests.
'We can't find any evidence that they helped,' researcher says of states' COVID-19 vaccine lotterie…
Erin Schumaker
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Researchers develop surface coating that kills coronavirus in an hour
The researchers have developed a surface coating, which, when painted on common objects like door…
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How the pandemic is actually helping ALS research
Business Insider's biggest healthcare stories for August 24.
Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer
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Researchers identify 13 genetic variations that can make you more susceptible to COVID-19
An international research group compared the genes of about 500,000 people who had COVID-19 and 2 m…
Dr. Catherine Schuster-Bruce
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Coronavirus vaccines may be slightly less effective for women than men, emerging research suggests
A new CDC report found that women represent the majority of breakthrough infections - a sign that t…
Aria Bendix
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COVID-19: India, for the tenth consecutive day, logs less than one lakh COVID cases at 67,208
This is the 10th consecutive day when India has reported less than one lakh COVID cases. On J…
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8 weeks between shots is the 'sweet spot' for giving Pfizer's two-dose COVID-19 vaccine, UK researchers say
It's not yet clear how changes in immune response relate to the protection you get from Pfizer's CO…
Dr. Catherine Schuster-Bruce
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People are developing diabetes after COVID-19. It might be because the virus messing with insulin-producing cells, new research suggests.
The virus could be completely changing the way the pancreas beta cells work, Dr. Shiubing Chen told…
Marianne Guenot
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Scientists decode how Coronavirus interacts with proteins in human cells
They explained that a detailed understanding of these interactions will help identify the proce…