North Korea's First Covid-19 Outbreak: What Happened in 2022
Originally published 2022-05-15. On 12 May 2022, after more than two years of insisting it had no cases at all, North Korea publicly admit...
COVID-19 Archive & Context
The COVID-19 pandemic generated research and public guidance that changed over time. This archive preserves coverage from that period. Read each piece with its publication date in mind, and use current public-health and clinical sources for decisions about your circumstances today.
Do Cannabis Compounds Block COVID? What the Oregon State Study Found
Originally published 2022-01-15. Dates, ages and announcements in this article refer to January 2022. In January 2022, a team led by Richar...
Italian Man's Fake Silicone Arm at a COVID Vaccine Hub, Explained
Originally published 2021-12-03. Dates, ages and announcements in this article refer to December 2021. In early December 2021, a man walke...
Biden Urges WTO to Waive Covid Vaccine Patents as Omicron Emerges
Originally published 2021-11-28. On 26 November 2021, the same day the World Health Organization named the new Omicron variant a variant ...
Nine US Senators Urge Biden to Secure a Covid Vaccine Patent Waiver
Originally published 2021-11-28. In late November 2021, nine US senators who caucus with the Democrats wrote to President Joe Biden urging...
EU Backs a Targeted COVID Vaccine Patent Waiver at the WTO
Originally published 2021-11-27. In late November 2021 the European Union signalled that it would support a narrowly targeted waiver of COV...
Vienna Brothel Offered Free Session to People Who Got Vaccinated
Originally published 2021-11-12. A woman in a nurse costume holds an oversized syringe beside the door marked “Impfstrasse” (vaccination s...
Molnupiravir: The First Covid Pill Approved in the UK
Originally published 2021-11-07. On 4 November 2021 the United Kingdom became the first country to authorise a tablet-form antiviral for C...
US COVID-19 Deaths vs the 1918 Flu: What the Comparison Means
Originally published 2021-09-22. By 20 September 2021, COVID-19 had killed about 675,000 people in the United States, according to the Joh...
Jennifer Aniston on Dropping Unvaccinated People From Her Routine
Originally published 2021-08-16. In August 2021, Jennifer Aniston told InStyle magazine that she had stopped seeing a few people from her ...
China's 2021 Nanjing Delta Outbreak: Lockdowns and Mass Testing
Originally published 2021-08-01. In late July 2021 China faced its most widespread Covid-19 outbreak since the first wave in Wuhan. It bega...
Stephen Harmon: Hillsong Member Who Joked About Vaccines Dies of COVID
Originally published 2021-07-27. Stephen Harmon, a 34-year-old member of the Hillsong church in California, died of COVID-19 in July 2021 ...
Black Fungus in India: 45,374 Cases and 4,300+ Deaths by July 2021
Originally published 2021-07-26. By late July 2021, India's government had recorded 45,374 cases of mucormycosis , the infection nickna...
Cow Dung and COVID-19: Why Indian Doctors Warned Against It
Originally published 2021-05-12. No, cow dung and cow urine do not protect against COVID-19 or cure it. In May 2021, as India's devast...
COVID-19 Jabs at “Dracula’s Castle”: Romania’s Bran Castle in 2021
Originally published 2021-05-10. In May 2021, Romania turned one of its most famous tourist sights into a COVID-19 vaccination point. Ever...
Black Fungus in India: Why Mucormycosis Hit Covid Patients
Originally published 2021-05-10. In May 2021, at the height of India's devastating second Covid-19 wave, doctors in Mumbai, Delhi, Guja...
Chinese Party Weibo Post Mocking India's Covid Crisis Deleted
Originally published 2021-05-03. On the afternoon of Saturday 1 May 2021, as India was recording more new Covid-19 infections each day tha...
Passengers Cheer as Couple Who Refused Masks Are Removed From Flight
Originally published 2021-04-11. In spring 2021, a short TikTok clip filmed on board a Southwest Airlines plane went viral. It showed a co...
COVID-19 and the Brain: What the 236,000-Patient Oxford Study Found
First published April 9, 2021. The short answer: in a large study of health records published in April 2021, about one in three people (33....
Oravax Oral Covid-19 Vaccine: Pill Trial Plans and Results
Originally published 2021-03-31. In March 2021 a new company called Oravax Medical announced that it hoped to begin human trials of a Covi...
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