Public health officials believe many cases are going undetected as clinics close during the pandemic and testing supplies are diverted to coronavirus screening.
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NYT ScienceSupplies for STD test kits are being diverted to tests for Covid-19. Doctors fear that chlamydia and gonorrhea are spreading, undetected.
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Experts say it’s normal for levels of antibodies to drop after clearing an infection, and that they represent just one arm of the immune response against a virus.
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NYT ScienceStudies reporting waning antibodies to the coronavirus have prompted many fears, but experts say it’s normal for antibody levels to drop, and doesn't indicate a loss of immunity
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New research found ‘autoantibodies’ similar to those in lupus and rheumatoid arthritis patients. But patients may also benefit from treatments for those autoimmune diseases.
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NYT ScienceSome survivors of Covid-19 carry worrying signs that their immune system has turned on the body, reminiscent of autoimmune diseases like lupus.
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NYT ScienceSome survivors of Covid-19 carry worrying signs that their immune system has turned on the body, reminiscent of autoimmune diseases like lupus.
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Future astronauts seeking water on the moon may not need to go into the most treacherous craters in its polar regions to find it.
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NYT ScienceUsing an infrared telescope mounted inside a NASA 747 jumbo jet, scientists unambiguously demonstrated that water is indeed there on the moon
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False negatives are not the only troublesome outcome of a faulty coronavirus test.
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NYT ScienceAs testing efforts ramp up nationwide, people taking Covid-19 tests should be well versed not only in the benefits of tests but in their limitations as well, health experts say
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Under MedAdvantage plans, the major insurer is sending packages including Tamiflu and coronavirus tests to those considered especially vulnerable to Covid and the flu.
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NYT ScienceThe country's largest insurance company is sending some of its MedAdvantage members flu kits: "We thought imagine if you start getting sick and already had a mini pharmacy at home,” said Deneen Vojta, an executive vice president at UnitedHealth.
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The health agency will license much of its material to the online encyclopedia, allowing the information to be reposted widely into almost 200 languages.
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NYT ScienceWikipedia and the W.H.O. are joining forces to combat misinformation about Covid-19.
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NYT ScienceWikipedia and the W.H.O. are joining forces to combat misinformation about Covid-19.
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The pandemic death toll could be lowered by next spring if more Americans wear masks, a new analysis finds.
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NYT ScienceUniversal mask use could prevent nearly 130,000 of deaths from Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, through next spring.
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NYT ScienceUniversal mask use could prevent nearly 130,000 of deaths from Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, through next spring.
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NYT ScienceA new model offers a rough estimate of of 500,000 deaths from Covid-19 by March 2021, even with social distancing mandates reinstated in most states.
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AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson have restarted their late-stage trials after finding that serious illnesses in a few volunteers appeared not to be related to the vaccines.
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NYT ScienceAstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson have restarted their late-stage trials after finding that serious illnesses in a few volunteers appeared not to be related to the vaccines.
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Mammoths and giant ground sloths roamed the same terrain that a young adult swiftly moved through while toting a young child.
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NYT ScienceThe prehistoric person was moving at a good clip across the landscape, toting a toddler. During the time they started and ended their journey, a mammoth and a giant ground sloth crossed their path.
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The office was dedicated to the long-term safety of vaccines. Experts say plans to track coronavirus vaccines are fragmented and “behind the eight ball.”
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NYT ScienceThe Trump administration quietly closed a vaccine safety office last year, hampering efforts to track the long-term safety of a coronavirus vaccine.
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NYT ScienceThe Trump administration quietly closed a vaccine safety office last year, hampering efforts to track the long-term safety of a coronavirus vaccine.
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NYT ScienceThe Trump administration quietly closed a vaccine safety office last year, hampering efforts to track the long-term safety of a coronavirus vaccine.
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Researchers once feared that school reopenings might spread the virus through communities. But so far there is little evidence that it’s happening.
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NYT ScienceSo far, schools do not seem to be stoking community transmission of the coronavirus, according to data emerging from random testing in the United States and Britain
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At the C.D.C., he waged a 13-year campaign to vanquish a deadly infectious disease that had ravaged the world for centuries. Victory came in 1977.
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NYT ScienceAt the C.D.C., Dr. J. Michael Lane waged a 13-year campaign to vanquish smallpox, which had ravaged the world for centuries. Victory came in 1977. He has died at 84.
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Just about any other living thing would be liquefied at the forces this insect can withstand.
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NYT ScienceThe forces that a diabolical ironclad beetle can withstand "would jellify a human"
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NYT ScienceEvolution has given the insect an exterior that can hold its own against a force 39,000 times its body weight — the equivalent of a 150-pound person resisting the crush of about 25 blue whales.
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The spacecraft will attempt to suck up rocks and dirt from the asteroid, which could unlock secrets of the solar system and could aid humanity’s ability to divert one that might slam into Earth.
A manifesto urging reliance on “herd immunity” without lockdowns was warmly received by administration officials. But the strategy cannot stem the pandemic, many experts say.
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NYT ScienceLetting the coronavirus freely infect younger people would endanger Americans with underlying conditions and result in perhaps a half-million deaths, scientists warn.
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NYT ScienceA manifesto calling for the coronavirus to spread naturally among younger people while protecting the vulnerable is unscientific, dangerous and unethical, many scientists said.
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NYT ScienceA manifesto calling for the coronavirus to spread naturally among younger people while protecting the vulnerable is unscientific, dangerous and unethical, many scientists said.
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