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As the omicron variant pushes COVID case counts to new highs, we’ve received audience questions about monoclonal antibodies, which are used to prevent and treat infection from the coronavirus. To get answers, Side Effects Public Media spoke with Dr. Myron Cohen, a professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

COVID has handed society the biggest natural experiment in health and economic equity – and social scientists say the scorecard is far from stellar.

Plans to vaccinate Americans against COVID-19 had a big setback Tuesday. Federal officials called for a pause on Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine, to look into reports that it caused blood clots. And that news reverberated at clinics where the vaccine had already been used.

In March of 2020, Norbert "Nobby" Bostock became the first known case of COVID-19 in Southern Indiana. After four weeks in the hospital, he died from the disease. He was 77.

Hospitals and healthcare workers reflect on living with COVID a year after it came to dominate our lives.

For the past year, Dr. Lauren Graham has been the COVID-19 coordinator at the Grinnell Regional Medical Center in Grinnell, Iowa. She spoke to Side…