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Covid-19

From early in the coronavirus outbreak to today’s research into long Covid, chronic Covid, and rebound Covid, here is the STAT coronavirus archive.

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First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Why Long Covid can feel scarier than a gun to the head

First Opinion Rachel Hall-Clifford

Long Covid feels like a gun to my head

Health Jason Mast

Inside Anthony Fauci’s ‘On Call’: 9 health and science takeaways from the memoir of America’s most famous doctor

First Opinion Asa Hutchinson and Deval Patrick

A new initiative will help governors and local leaders fight the next pandemic

First Opinion Eran Bendavid and Chirag Patel

100,000 models show that not much was learned about stopping the Covid-19 pandemic

Politics Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: Anthony Fauci, facing GOP accusers, says debate on Covid origins has been ‘seriously distorted’

First Opinion Vanessa Kerry

The Pandemic Treaty will succeed only with investment to build strong health systems

Exclusive Betsy Ladyzhets

NIH documents show how $1.6 billion long Covid initiative has failed so far to meet its goals

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In the Lab Annalisa Merelli

STAT Plus: New antiviral works against coronaviruses in mice, but human testing will have to wait

Health tech Brittany Trang

STAT Plus: Cue Health’s Covid-19 tests could give false results, FDA warns

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D.C. Diagnosis Rachel Cohrs Zhang

STAT Plus: CDC goes hard on military pets

First Opinion Cynthia M. Ho

Déjà WTO: The WHO’s pandemic agreement shouldn’t water down intellectual property obligations

Health Associated Press

STAT Plus: Biden administration announces new partnership with 50 countries to stifle future pandemics

Politics Isabella Cueto

STAT Plus: $10 billion long Covid ‘moonshot’ is being floated by Bernie Sanders

Health Annalisa Merelli

Covid cut life expectancy by 1.6 years globally, but the leading causes of death haven’t changed since 1990

Health Elizabeth Cooney

STAT Plus: People in Republican-voting states more likely to report Covid-19 vaccine side effects, study says

Health Helen Branswell

Covid’s scientific silver lining: A chance to watch the human immune system respond in real time

Biotech Matthew Herper

STAT Plus: During the pandemic, were great vaccines bad business? A company-by-company review

Letters to the editor Torie Bosch

STAT readers on new CDC Covid guidelines, weight loss drugs and mental health, and new psychiatric meds

First Opinion Ashish K. Jha

The CDC’s new, relaxed Covid isolation guidance makes perfect sense

Health Helen Branswell

FDA advisory panel recommends a streamlined flu vaccine for next fall

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: WTO proposal for Covid diagnostics and therapeutics waiver is abandoned

In the Lab Isabella Cueto

Covid-19 increases risk of developing autoimmune disease, but vaccination helps, large study shows

In the Lab Elizabeth Cooney

‘Brain fog’ is one of Covid-19’s most daunting symptoms. A new study measures its impact

Health Helen Branswell

CDC advisory panel says people 65 and older should get a Covid spring booster shot

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Novavax and Gavi end a bitter dispute over Covid-19 vaccines with a refund up to $475 million

Health Elizabeth Cooney

Can exercise help treat long Covid? New study finds patients improve with self-paced approach

Health Usha Lee McFarling

FDA urged to move faster to fix pulse oximeters for darker-skinned patients

Health Helen Branswell

Updated Covid vaccine has 54% effectiveness, new data suggest