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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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In the Lab Isabella Cueto

‘Visionary’ study finds inflammation, evidence of Covid virus years after infection

Letters to the editor Patrick Skerrett

What readers have to say about long Covid, FDA and diversity, and more

Politics Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: Supreme Court rejects challenge to Biden’s use of bully pulpit to fight Covid misinformation

First Opinion Patrick Skerrett

Readers respond to essays on long Covid, hypochondria, and more

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

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First Opinion Vanessa Kerry

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

D.C. Diagnosis Rachel Cohrs Zhang

STAT Plus: Dark money group runs ads on China biotech bill

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First Opinion Alexandra Phelan and Lawrence O. Gostin

The world needs the new pandemic treaty

Politics Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: Fresh scrutiny of post-Covid spending reignites yearslong tension over emergency stockpiles

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

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