Epidemiology Answers Key Questions About Delta Variant Transmissibility And Lethality
Understanding the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 infection is critical to developing countermeasures that can successfully stop the spread of the virus. For most of the Covid-19 pandemic, computational modeling studies have given us a general sense of when, following infection, SARS-CoV-2 becomes …
UK Approval Of Molnupiravir May Create New And More Dangerous Covid-19 Variants
As of this morning, British drug regulators have approved the Covid-19 antiviral drug molnupiravir for use in Covid-19 patients at risk for severe illness, making them the first public health officials to do so. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency released …
Defeating death from COVID: Here’s a comprehensive strategy
In its first nine months in office, the Biden administration has made impressive and significant progress regarding the nation’s COVID-19 crisis. With bipartisan congressional support, it has passed another economic relief measure; encouraged and in some cases mandated vaccinations; tracked the spread of the Delta …
A Thoughtful Way To End The Covid-19 Pandemic (Part 16)
This is the sixteenth article in a series called “How SARS-CoV-2 Delays, Evades, and Suppresses the Immune System.” Read parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15. There are many lessons we can take away from the ways in which SARS-CoV-2 works to suppress and evade the innate …
ACCESS Health India supports the adoption of Standard Treatment Guidelines to improve the quality of care
Under its multistate Capacity Assistance Program to strengthen government-sponsored health insurance schemes in the country. ACCESS Health is set to support the adoption of standard treatment guidelines (STGs) in the implementation of the Ayushman Bharat- Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojana in the …
A Missed Opportunity: A Decision To Regret
The FDA advisory panel got it wrong — or at least they only got it half right — when it approved boosters only for those who are at high risk of severe Covid and those 65 and older. In failing to approve …
What US policymakers can learn from the UK’s COVID-19 response
British policymakers have begun weighing the future of Great Britain’s pandemic state, deciding which initiatives are worth keeping, which need revamping and which need scrapping altogether. We should be doing the same here in the United States. Both the UK and the U.S. have …
Kids & Covid: What You Need To Know About Schools, Vaccines, And Risk
With schools across the country now fully reopened our public education system has become a powder box, ready to explode. After declining in early summer, Covid cases among children are skyrocketing. More than 243,000 new cases among children were logged last week …
How SARS-CoV-2 Evades And Suppresses The Immune System (Part 5)
This is the fifth article in a 15-part series called “Relevance of Immune Suppression by SARS-CoV-2 to Understanding and Controlling the Covid-19 Pandemic,” which will explore an underappreciated but highly significant aspect of SARS-CoV-2 replication. The ability of SARS-CoV-2 to delay, evade, …
How SARS-CoV-2 Evades And Suppresses The Immune System (Part One)
This is the first article in a 15-part series called “Relevance of Immune Suppression by SARS-CoV-2 to Understanding and Controlling the Covid-19 Pandemic,” which will explore an under-appreciated but highly significant aspect of SARS-CoV-2 replication. The ability of SARS-CoV-2 to delay, evade, …
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