News, analysis and resources on the fast-moving coronavirus pandemic, featuring timely dispatches from reporters, experts and providers.
For journalists, parents with school-aged children are a good barometer of what issues to cover in the weeks and months ahead.
Also, booster protection wanes after four months, research finds, while shots for children under 5 remain in limbo.
Also, a large new study of veterans finds COVID causes long-lasting heart problems. One prominent cardiologist called the results "stunning" and "worse than expected."
Also, COVID is devastating Black oral history, as communities of color have died at disproportionate rates from the pandemic's start.
Plus, legal whiplash continues around vaccine and mask mandates.
Plus, crystal-ball gazing amid COVID is a fool's errand — but who can resist?
STAT's Helen Branswell and The Atlantic's Katherine J. Wu talk COVID reporting and managing the overwhelm.
The fast-moving omicron wave may soon subside.
The CDC leaves many scratching their heads in communications over isolation and quarantine.
Plus, Pfizer vaccine stumbles in younger children.
