Can Our Success with HIV Serve as a Guide for Antiviral Drug Development for Covid-19?
To much of the world, the growing realization that vaccine-induced immunity for COVID-19 eventually fades has come as a shock. But for those of us who lived through the beginnings of the world’s last great pandemic, HIV/AIDS, the tremors feel oddly familiar. With AIDS, …
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 …
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 New Study Documents Efficient COVID-19 Transmission From Infected Children And Adolescents To Household Contacts
A hotly debated question is how efficient is the transmission of COVID-19 from children and adolescents to household contacts. This question has immediate resonance as we anticipate reopening schools for children of all ages, especially those twelve and under who will be …
United Kingdom Data Show Population Based Rapid Antigen Tests Are A Potent Covid Control Tool
Of the many different strategies countries are adopting to combat Covid-19, an increasing number include rapid antigen testing. Austria recently committed to the purchase of rapid tests, while in Canada a program was launched that aims to distribute rapid tests for workplace …
HBO Doc ‘The Last Cruise’ Gives Insight Into Nightmarish Covid-19 Outbreak
In the first few minutes of The Last Cruise, a new HBO documentary directed by Hannah Olson, the skies are clear, the waters blue, and aboard the Diamond Princess, aerobics classes involving hundreds are in full swing. The date is January 20, 2020, and …
Persistence Of Covid-19 Antibodies Varies Widely From Person To Person
One of the greatest unsolved mysteries of Covid-19 is why the neutralizing antibodies our bodies generate in response to the virus tend to dwindle in number so quickly. A small minority of studies, including one completed in Iceland last summer, have observed …
Preventing Fecal-Oral And Fecal-Aerosol Transmission Of Covid-19
Last year, I conducted an interview with a friend who traveled to Shanghai and was forced to quarantine in a hotel for 11 days under the supervision of local health authorities. He was brought hot meals, subjected to temperature checks twice daily, …
Self-Testing: A Route To School Re-Opening – The Austrian Example
Austria is seeking something different to reopen its schools. After months of battling SARS-CoV-2, the government is asking students to test themselves twice a week before they can attend class. The country could become an example for the U.S., where many schools …
Weighing Biden’s First Executive Orders to Address COVID-19: Plaudits and missed opportunities
Within days of his inauguration, President Joe Biden followed through on his promise to get straight to work fighting COVID-19, swiftly signing numerous executive orders aimed at mitigating the pandemic. These directives include everything from enforcing mask-wearing to enhancing worker safety, increasing …
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