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The battle over Covid’s origins has come for Bob Garry, who’s faced some of the world’s deadliest viral threats.

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Matt Ridley, global warming skeptic and co-author with Alina Chan of a book promoting a lab origin of SARS-CoV-2, was invited by Jay Bhattacharya, the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NI...

Time for some of that civil disagreement that the NIH Director can't get enough of

The public discourse around the origin of the pandemic has increasingly been shaped by political agendas and conspiratorial narratives. Some of this has vilified experts who have studied this question...

The COVID pandemic likely began when the virus jumped from animals to humans, and didn’t start in a lab. But false narratives continue to circulate.

Virus origin stories have always been prone to conspiracy theories. COVID disinformation has threatened research—and lives

Emily J Erbelding, M.D., M.P.H; One Hundred Days, Incalculable Losses, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, , jiaf317, https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiaf31

A book filled with contradictions, cherry-picking of data, conspiratorial arguments, and serious accusations that undermine trust in research and contribute to making the world less safe in the face o...

Live-animal markets are a natural laboratory for viruses to evolve and spark deadly outbreaks, yet scientists lack support to study the risks they pose.

Abstract. In 2021, Jesse Bloom published a study addressing why the earliest SARS-CoV-2 sequences in Wuhan from late December 2019 were not those most simi

Abstract. In 2021, Jesse Bloom published a study addressing why the earliest SARS-CoV-2 sequences in Wuhan from late December 2019 were not those most simi

Explore vaccine hesitancy historically and in the context of COVID-19.

Since regaining power in January, the Trump administration has repeatedly claimed with false certainty that the COVID-19 pandemic originated in a lab. But there isn’t clear evidence that the virus cam...

A new cadre of officials might deal in evidence more than Robert F. Kennedy Jr. does, but they still question the worth of vaccines.

Infectious disease experts say mRNA vaccines have been studied for decades, they are safe and effective, and were instrumental in saving lives during the COVID pandemic.

The Food and Drug Administration will no longer approve COVID-19 vaccines for healthy people under 65 without rigorous trials.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. released his MAHA plan on Thursday.

Federal officials unveiled a rigorous regulatory approach to future COVID vaccines that could make it harder for many people under 65 to get immunized.

The US Food and Drug Administration is changing the way it approves Covid-19 vaccines for Americans, a move that may limit future shots to older Americans and people at higher risk of serious Covid-19...

SARS-CoV-2 Spike displays multiple adaptive changes in addition to the furin cleavage site. Robert F. Garry1-3 1Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tulane University Medical Center, 1430 Tula...

Jeffery Taubenberger becomes acting director of NIH’s second largest institute

Update April 17, 2025: A leaked Office of Management and Budget proposal for HHS cuts includes dramatic cuts to NIH funding. The proposal would also …

Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in long-term persistent infections is hypothesised to be a major source of variants of concern (VOC). However, the linkage of intra-host variants into haplotypes that reflect v...

A prominent report claimed substantial support for two introductions of SARS-CoV-2 into humans using a calculation that combined phylodynamic inferences and epidemic models. Inspection of the calculat...

Not a speck of evidence has emerged showing that the COVID virus leaked from a Chinese lab. So why does a just-released CIA statement claim that it did? Blame politics.

My job is to ask tough questions of vaccine makers. That’s not what he is doing.

Influenza A(H5N1) viruses are an emerging zoonotic threat and have spread widely throughout birds in North America. Recently, influenza A(H5N1) infection led to serious illness in a teenager in Canada...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has shown disdain for vaccines. Here are some legislative measures that would put our children at unnecessary risk.

A virologist explains that why this probably isn’t the big one — but that it’s a sign of bad things happening with the virus.