COVID

In August 2020, Scientific American offered its readers some spot-on advice about how to evaluate the constant stream of COVID-19 research we're all subjected to.

The United States is in the throes of a surge of serious infections with the COVID-19 Delta variant.

Study after study (after

Over the course of the pandemic, our understanding of SARS-COV-2 has changed almost weekly as new evidence has continued to roll in.

“Massive randomized study is proof that surgical masks limit coronavirus spread,” the Washington P

"A randomized-trial of community-level mask promotion in rural Bangladesh during COVID-19 shows that the intervention tripled mask usage and reduced symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections, demonstrating that promoting community mask-weari

I've lived in California my whole life. It's a beautiful part of the world but a horribly run state. We have too little water, too many wildfires, and, as the last 18 months have demonstrated, executed an atrocious pandemic response.

“A groundbreaking preprint paper by the prestigious Oxford University Clinical Research Group … includes alarming findings devastating to the COVID vaccine rollout,” Children's Health Defense (CHD) 

When fact-checkers keep everybody honest, they play an important role in our public discourse.

With US public health officials recommending COVID-19 booster shots for all Americans this fall, the internet is awash in claims that the original vaccines proved to be ineffective against the circulating SARS-COV-2 variants.