Lauren Neergaard

Extra safety scrutiny planned as COVID-19 vaccine worries grow

October 14, 2020 at 12:36 p.m.

Facing public skepticism about rushed COVID-19 vaccines, U.S. health officials are planning extra scrutiny of the first people vaccinated when shots become available -- an added safety layer experts call...

Debate begins for who鈥檚 first in line for COVID-19 vaccine

August 2, 2020 at 4:04 p.m.

Who gets to be first in line for a COVID-19 vaccine? U.S. health authorities hope by late next month to have some draft guidance on how to ration initial doses,...

Nurse Kathe Olmstead, right, gives volunteer ...

Experimental COVID-19 vaccine is put to its biggest test

July 27, 2020 at 2:38 p.m.

The biggest test yet of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine got underway Monday with the first of some 30,000 Americans rolling up their sleeves to receive shots created by the U.S....

First COVID-19 vaccine tested in US poised for final testing

July 14, 2020 at 3:57 p.m.

The first COVID-19 vaccine tested in the U.S. revved up people’s immune systems just the way scientists had hoped, researchers reported Tuesday -- as the shots are poised to begin...

Dr. Anthony Fauci: “We’re not there yet” on key steps to reopen economy

April 14, 2020 at 11:29 a.m.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government's top infectious disease expert, said Tuesday the U.S. does not yet have the critical testing and tracing procedures needed to begin reopening the nation's economy,...

White House turns to statistical models for coronavirus forecast

March 31, 2020 at 7:42 a.m.

Like forecasters tracking a megastorm, White House officials are relying on statistical models to help predict the impact of聽the coronavirus outbreak聽and try to protect as many people as possible.

This 2011 digitally-colorized electron microscope image made available by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shows a clump of green-colored, spheroid-shaped, Staphylococcus epidermidis bacteria on a purple-colored matrix.

Tracking microbes people carry may predict future health

May 29, 2019 at 12:08 p.m.

WASHINGTON 鈥� We share our bodies with trillions of microbes that are critical to staying healthy, but now scientists are getting a much-needed close look at how those bugs can...

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