Turns out the loss experienced by many who contract COVID is temporary because the neurons that detect smell aren’t hurt.
Author: Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY
At least two pharmaceutical companies promise affordable COVID-19 vaccines during the pandemic
At least two COVID-19 vaccine companies that have gotten millions from the U.S. government plan to either make no profit or will set one global price.
Wearing a mask doesn’t just protect others from COVID, it protects you from infection, perhaps serious illness, too
At a Missouri hair salon, mask wearing seems to have kept clients exposed to two stylists with COVID-19 from getting infected.
‘No one is safe until everyone is safe’: Vaccine nationalism threatens global coronavirus effort
Instead of collaboration, coordination and sharing, vaccine nationalism pits nation against nation to get and keep enough doses for their citizens.
FDA says a coronavirus vaccine would have to be at least 50% effective to be approved
A coronavirus vaccine would ideally be proven to be at least 50% effective for the Food and Drug Administration to approve it.
Mike Pence doesn’t mention wearing masks as a way of stopping the spread of coronavirus
Vice President Mike Pence didn’t mention face masks or social distancing as ways to protect against coronavirus at a White House task force briefing.
Latest on global search for coronavirus vaccine: 1st US candidate set for Phase 2; WHO tracks 8 efforts; Pfizer tests in humans
As the all-out effort for a vaccine accelerates, USA TODAY is rounding up some of the week’s most notable developments.
Can I catch coronavirus again if I’ve had it? At least not right away. Later, who knows?
It doesn’t appear people who have had a confirmed case of COVID-19 can quickly become reinfected with the virus that causes the disease. studies show.
Many coronavirus mutations are circling the globe, but we don’t know if any are more dangerous
The coronavirus is mutating as it spreads across the planet. The unanswered question is how different these strains are and if they’re more dangerous.
To find a coronavirus vaccine, can we ethically infect people with a disease with no cure?
To have a vaccine by next summer will require both luck and cutting corners, putting once seemingly academic questions suddenly front and center.