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Merck’s Covid Pill Is Authorized for High-Risk Adults

Original article from The New York Times By Rebecca Robbins & Carl Zimmer. December 23, 2021 The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday authorized a second antiviral pill for Covid but said it should not be preferred over other treatments. The F.D.A. cleared the pill, developed by Merck and known as molnupiravir, More

Massachusetts should reinstate mask mandate, Boston University professor says in COVID oversight hearing

Original article from Mass Live By Alison Kuznitz. December 16, 2021 Massachusetts should temporarily reintroduce a statewide mask mandate, a Boston University infectious diseases specialist testified on Thursday to state lawmakers as she outlined the alarming transmissibility of the new Omicron coronavirus variant. Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, an associate professor at the Boston... More

You Should Be Afraid of the Next ‘Lab Leak’

Original article from The New York Times Magazine By Jon Gertner. November 23, 2021 Covid might not have come out of a medical research lab, but it raises some urgent questions about how those facilities operate. The National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories is a seven-story concrete fortress in Boston’s South End, hemmed... More

Ask The Doctors: Are we headed into another surge?

Original article from WBUR By Jamie Bologna & Tiziana Dearing. November 16, 2021 And just like that, it seems we're on an upswing. Over the weekend, the Commonwealth marked 24 new COVID deaths, and more than 5,200 new infections. That number — 5,200 — marks a more than 1,200 case increase from the... More

Who Owns the Vaccine? A Conversation With Moderna’s Stéphane Bancel and Dr. Nahid Bhadelia

Original article from WIRED By Brent Rose. November 18, 2021 The roadblocks to getting the Covid-19 vaccine into poorer countries partially come down to a contentious patent dispute. On Tuesday the New York Times dropped a bombshell report about patents around Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine. After a four-year partnership with the US National... More