Epidemiologist

New CDC data confirms that monkeypox overwhelmingly occurs in men who identify as gay or bisexual and who engage in risky sexual behavior—yet LGBT activists have said it is “not moral” to ask men to refrain from sex until the government can get the virus corralled.

"[W]e've simply had no opportunity to test this in humans," says Bavarian Nordic vice president of clinical strategy.

Survey aims to document breakthrough bleeding and heavier-than-usual periods postvaccine.

The Biden administration today said it ordered 2.5 million more doses of Bavarian Nordic’s Jynneos monkeypox vaccine, while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it was seeking to expand the vaccine for children, despite no known cases yet in children in the U.S.

Yale infection-control experts say this is not typical.

The CDC announced the birthrate in the United States reversed its downward trend and increased for the first time in seven years, but Tesla founder Elon Musk points out it’s still not enough to meet the minimum replacement threshold.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today authorized a booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11, without convening its vaccine advisory panel of independent experts to discuss Pfizer’s data on 5- to 11-year-olds — and based on a study subset of only 67 children, CNBC reported.

New figures from the World Health Organization show that Sweden had fewer COVID deaths per capita than much of Europe despite refusing to enforce strict lockdowns and mask mandates like numerous other nearby countries.

City's alert level moves up from "low" to "medium."

In Shanghai, China, millions of residents have been locked in their homes for weeks.