COVID-19

By Pam Belluck Hundreds of thousands of Americans have sought medical care for post-COVID health problems that they had not been diagnosed with before becoming infected with the coronavirus, according to the largest study to date of…
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By Joseph Stepansky There is growing public support among the world’s scientific community for fully exploring the possibility the coronavirus may have emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, leading to the global outbreak that has…
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By Richard C. Paddock and Chau Doan For more than 20 years, the husband and wife were stalwarts of their evangelical community: pastors who founded a small church in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, where they led services and distributed food…
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By Jeffrey Gettleman, Shalini Venugopal and Apoorva Mandavilli NEW DELHI — At Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, a huge facility in the middle of India’s capital, 37 fully vaccinated doctors came down with COVID-19 earlier this month. The…
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By Glenda Kwek, Nivrita Ganguly and Nishant Saxena NEW DELHI / MUMBAI / LUCKNOW - Ajay Singh Yadav only managed a final video call with Raj Karan before his close friend became the latest of an alarming number of young Indians, including…
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By Ernesto Londoño and Letícia Casado PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil — The patients began arriving at hospitals in Porto Alegre far sicker and younger than before. Funeral homes were experiencing a steady uptick in business, while exhausted doctors…
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By Emily Schmall MUMBAI — India is racing to contain a second wave of the coronavirus, but its vaccination campaign is running into doubters like Akbar Mohamed Patel. A resident of Mumbai’s densely populated slum area of Dharavi, Patel…
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By Joanna Slater and Piyumi Fonseka COLOMBO - In his grief, Mohamed Niyas cannot bring himself to tell his wife the truth. She knows that their 2-month-old boy, who was born with a serious heart condition, died in January after being…
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By Benjamin Mueller and Matina Stevis Gridneff LONDON — The vaccine wars have come to Europe. For months now, wealthy countries have been clearing the world’s shelves of coronavirus vaccines, leaving poorer nations with little hope of…
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By Mark Landler and Benjamin Mueller LONDON — Britain’s disclosure Friday (22) that a new variant of the coronavirus could be deadlier than the original raised a stir about why such alarming information was put out when the evidence was so…
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