Many American public-health specialists are at risk of burning out as the coronavirus surges back.

Spain's large-scale study on the coronavirus indicates just 5% of its population has developed antibodies, strengthening evidence that a so-called herd immunity to Covid-19 is "unachievable," the medical journal the Lancet reported on Monday.

Open letter says there is emerging evidence of potential for aerosol transmission.

Public health messaging and science have to work hard to stay in sync during a crisis. During the Covid-19 pandemic, they haven't always succeeded.

Investigators say the delay was prompted by changes to the trial plan, called a protocol, while stressing such changes are common.

Clinical study has been helped by a simple design, a centralized health care system, and lots of infections

In the present paper, we attempt to characterise, quantify and measure the response of academia to international public health emergencies in a comparative bibliometric study of multiple outbreaks.

There is a preprint with data on the first coronavirus vaccine candidate from the Pfizer/BioNTech effort. This article argues that it's extremely important that the human trial data is made available for the public to trust the vaccines that get approved.  

Ian Sample talks to Prof Kate Jones about whether the current coronavirus pandemic is part of a wider picture of increasing animal to human virus transmission.

MIT Press is launching a journal that will review Covid-19 preprints, in an effort to quickly call out misinformation and highlight credible research.

Along with healthcare providers around the world, the Wellcome Trust PhD fellow Karin Purshouse is seeing the need for fast-tracked guidance on the virus and patient treatment.

The world's premier health agency pushed a flawed coronavirus containment strategy - until it disappeared from public view one day before the outbreak was declared a pandemic.

The U.S. has seen more cases in the past week than in any week since the pandemic began.

Political parties demand Sweden's strategy be reviewed before next election in 2022.

The research was the target of a conspiracy theory about the origin of the new coronavirus.

Unequal childcare burden blamed for fall in share of published research by women since schools shut, but funding bodies look to alleviate career impact.

But auditing such efforts will be difficult, while unintended consequences are always a risk, warns Athene Donald.

European Union officials are racing to agree on who can visit the bloc as of July 1 based on how countries of origin are faring with new coronavirus cases. Americans, so far, are excluded, according to draft lists seen by The New York Times.