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Allowing the virus to grow unchecked would create unthinkable loss of life. On June 26, Dr. Anthony Fauci announced it's "unlikely" that a COVID-19 vaccine with 70-75% efficacy taken by two-thirds of ...

Herd immunity describes the point at which a population is sufficiently immune to a disease to prevent its circulation. Researchers at the University of Manchester first coined the term in 1923, to ...

The number of people not vaccinating their children has been rising steadily in recent years. In 2017, 1.3 percent of two-year-olds hadn’t gotten any vaccines compared with 0.9 percent in 2013, ...

On a recent Skype call with my grandmother, I broached the topic of the fast-arriving Covid-19 vaccines. Advanced age brings wisdom, but it also brings an elevated risk of severe illness from ...

There are basically three ways to stop the Covid-19 disease for good. One involves extraordinary restrictions on free movement and assembly, as well as aggressive testing, to interrupt its ...

The end of this pandemic sometimes gets boiled down to two words: herd immunity. But now, as an academic debate swirls over when or even if America can get to a high enough percentage of people with ...

It’s 4:55pm Central Time on a Tuesday at Bumble headquarters in Austin, Texas. Whitney Wolfe Herd, the 28-year-old founder and CEO of the woman-led dating app is showing me around the nearly four-year ...

The first time I met Whitney Wolfe Herd, four years ago, Bumble HQ was a humble two-bedroom apartment in downtown Austin, Texas. A fresh-faced team of just 10 (with a further 20 in London, New York ...