One Man, One Plane, Seven Infections And Counting: A Cautionary Tale For All Those Planning Air Travel
In September, a man boarded a flight from Dubai to New Zealand. Not 48 hours before he had tested negative for Covid-19. Days after disembarking, while quarantining in compliance with national containment policy, he and six other passengers of the 86 on …
Don’t Assume A 14-Day Quarantine Is Enough To Prevent Covid-19 Spread
One of the general assumptions we’ve formed about Covid-19 is that when someone is infected, they’re no longer contagious after two weeks—hence the recommended 14-day quarantine. But this isn’t necessarily the case. Following the first appearance of symptoms, the vast majority of …
China Aims To Eliminate Covid-19 With New Testing Policy
On November 6, China debuted a new travel testing policy. Before, incoming airline passengers had to submit results for a conventional PCR test that proved the absence of Covid-19 and, upon landing, head to a predetermined location for a mandatory 14-day quarantine. …
Are Frozen Foods A Risk For Covid-19 Infection? Possibly.
In the early days of the pandemic, when much about how SARS-CoV-2 was spread was still very much unknown, consumers were warned to disinfect groceries before putting food onto their shelves or into their refrigerators. But over time, as the respiratory nature …
One Tenth Of Americans Infected By Covid-19 Are Children
Children aren’t as likely to become severely ill from Covid-19 as adults, and for this reason their ability to contract and transmit infection is often downplayed or unrecognized. But according to a new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics, more than …
The COVID Commentaries: A Chronicle of a Plague —Volume I-V
Nearly a year and a half from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and the world is still struggling to contain this viral threat. Will the 2021 surge in new cases continue throughout the year? What effect will our vaccines have? Will …
New Research On Flu Vaccines Sheds Light On Covid-19 Vaccines
This is the second article in a four-part series on fading immunity to Covid-19 and the flu—the science behind it, and the implications it has for vaccine development and the pandemic at large. One of the reasons we get flu shots annually …
New Study Offers More Evidence That Immunity To Covid-19 Fades Quickly
This is the first article in a four-part series on fading immunity to Covid-19 and the flu—the science behind it, and the implications it has for vaccine development and the pandemic at large. More evidence has emerged that immunity to Covid-19 is …
A Tale Of Four Cities: Wuhan, Seattle, New York, Chicago
A new study from Northwestern University in Chicago, available as an unreviewed pre-print, identifies three distinct strains of SARS-CoV-2 currently circulating in Chicago. The three strains, called clades, can be distinguished from one another by the sequence of viral RNA. The variant the …
More Publication By Press Release, This Time From Sinovac On A Covid Vaccine
Spreading almost as fast as Covid-19 itself are “publications by press release”. The latest comes from Sinovac, the same company that previously withheld comment on animal studies of its candidate Covid vaccine until the supporting data was available for review. Not so this …
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