Jason Gale

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  • Donald TrumpHealth

    Scientists rebuke Trump’s Tylenol-autism claim, stress fever is bigger danger in pregnancy

    By Jason Gale and Bloomberg
  • vaccinesHealth

    Largest ever global study of COVID vaccines finds small but real link to neurological, blood, heart-related conditions

    By Jason Gale and Bloomberg
  • ORANGE, CA – April 14: Social distancing and masks are required at Providence St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, CA on Thursday, April 14, 2022. Hospitals across California have seen a decrease in the number of COVID-19 patients. (Photo by Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)Health

    Even with improved treatments, COVID’s death rate is still 60% higher than for the flu

    By Jason Gale and Bloomberg
  • Bill GatesHealth

    Bill Gates pledges $1.2B to finally eradicate polio after getting the ‘closest we’ve ever been’

    By Jason Gale and Bloomberg
  • Woman gets COVID-19 testHealth

    COVID-19 can be traced in patients feces for months after infection, according to Stanford University study

    By Jason Gale and Bloomberg
  • dpatop – PRODUCTION – 16 February 2022, Hessen, Fulda: A nurse cares for a patient who is seriously ill with corona in the intensive care unit of the hospital in Fulda. In the foreground is an ECMO machine to which the man is connected. Many patients with severe courses of the disease spend several weeks in the intensive care unit, and around half of the artificially ventilated patients die. Photo: Boris Roessler/dpa (Photo by Boris Roessler/picture alliance via Getty Images)Health

    COVID is leaving long-term mental health scars ‘on a scale that we have never seen before’, author of new study says

    By Jason Gale and Bloomberg
  • Vegetables for sale at a wet market in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022. Hong Kongs leader said the city had no plans for a citywide lockdown to help bring cases back to zero, even as she acknowledged that a growing omicron outbreak has exceeded its capacity to respond. Photographer: Paul Yeung/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesHealth

    A new batch of COVID pills are in focus as daily life reopens. Here’s how the treatments work—and how well

    By Jason Gale, John Lauerman, and others
  • BELGIUM-HEALTH-VIRUS-HOSPITALHealth

    COVID-19 virus can spread to almost every organ in the body, including the brain, and persist there for months

    By Jason Gale and Bloomberg
  • A health worker prepares doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at Cape Flats Development Association (CAFDA) in the Egoli township of Cape Town, South Africa, on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. South African scientists were last week the first to identify the new variant now known as omicron, and while symptoms have been described as mild, the exact risk from the new strain is still uncertain. Photographer: Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesHealth

    Pfizer’s vaccine has a ‘robust, but not complete’ loss of immune protection against Omicron, tests show

    By Antony Sguazzin, Jason Gale, and others
  • Australian resident Sara Medici, partner of the photographer, stands in the window of her hotel room during mandatory quarantine as a result of COVID-19 restrictions after arriving from Italy, in Sydney on September 25, 2020, in Australia. Sara Medici spent two weeks in mandatory hotel quarantine after her return from Italy to Australia. All international arrivals into Australia must go into mandatory 14-day hotel quarantine as part of Australia’s strict border controls due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by David Gray/Getty Images)Health

    Omicron’s spread across a Hong Kong hotel hallway raises transmission concerns

    By Jason Gale and Bloomberg
  • Wuhan's Huanan market has reemerged as a likely source of the coronavirusInternational

    Wuhan’s market reemerges as home of the earliest known COVID case in new study investigating pandemic’s origins

    By Jason Gale and Bloomberg
  • Valley Stream, N.Y.: Larry Talbert, who survived a month-long battle with COVID-19 as a patient at Long Island Jewish Valley Stream, in Valley Stream, New York, has returned to the hospital to lead a support group for survivors of the virus, and healthcare providers who have treated it. (Photo by Reece T. Williams/Newsday RM via Getty Images)Health

    Why the physical and economic pain of ‘long COVID’ will probably well outlast the pandemic

    By Jason Gale and Bloomberg
  • A health worker prepares to inoculate a person with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against the Covid-19 coronavirus in Kathmandu on November 14, 2021, after the government began a drive to vaccinate people above the age of 12 years and those with chronic health diseases. (Photo by PRAKASH MATHEMA / AFP) (Photo by PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP via Getty Images)Health

    Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine generated the strongest immune response in study of 4 jabs

    By Jason Gale and Bloomberg
  • NEW DELHI, INDIA MAY 6: An anti covid drug Remdesivir being prepared as an injection to be given to a corona patient at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences on May 6,2021 in New Delhi, India. India saw a catastrophic second wave of the Covid 19 pandemic in April to May 2021. These images where taken inside a Covid-19 ward where the photographer himself was admitted to the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences. (Photo by Pallava Bagla/Corbis via Getty Images)Health

    In patient with long-term COVID-19, coronavirus mutated to resist antiviral Remdesivir

    By Jason Gale and Bloomberg
  • Researchers, from the Thai Red Cross Emerging Infectious Diseases Health Science Center, catch bats as they stream out of a daylight hole during a catch and release program above the Khao Chong Pran Cave in Photharam, Ratchaburi Province, Thailand, on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. The team, led by Supaporn Wacharapluesadee at Chulalongkorn University, consisting of scientists, ecologists, and officers from Thailand’s National Park Department, have been collecting blood, tissue, saliva and fecal samples from bats in an effort to understand the origins of the Covid-19 virus. Photographer: Andre Malerba/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesHealth

    Where might the next COVID come from? Scientists look to those infected by animals carrying coronaviruses

    By Jason Gale and Bloomberg