Carbon Dioxide Levels May Predict Covid Risk In Your Immediate Surroundings
As mask usage decreases in the United States and worldwide, the risk of aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2 increases inversely. A maskless gym, grocery store, or gas station is much more dangerous than those settings in a masked context. We ought to be …
Study Uncovers A New Way To Think About Alzheimer’s Disease
Cells throughout the body naturally accumulate DNA mutations as we age. With Alzheimer’s disease, mutations occur in brain cells at a much faster rate than normal. Thanks to a recent study from researchers at Brigham Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital we …
There May Be A New Polio Epidemic On Its Way- If So, What We Can Do: Part II
This is Part II in a series on the enteroviruses that appear to cause a polio-like neurological disease, Acute Flaccid Myelitis. The US still has no vaccine against the primary causative agent while China has three, with more in Asia on the …
The Future Of Aviation In A Covid And Post-Covid World
As the Omicron subvariants continue to spread, world governments and airlines are advancing towards a post-Covid aviation industry. Despite continued infections and concerns about Long Covid health implications, Covid restrictions for flights are all but over. The Covid-19 pandemic nearly destroyed the …
Don’t You Wish You Didn’t Need To Breathe Someone Else’s Exhaled Air While Flying?
The Covid era restrictions on passenger aircraft, including mask mandates and negative tests, are officially ended. From now on, any American traveling domestically or returning to the United States from a foreign nation does not have to wear a mask, does not …
Is It Safe To Fly? The National Academy Of Sciences, Engineering, And Medicine Weighs In
For many years, many of us have flown for business, pleasure, or to see relatives and friends. For the past two and half years, Covid-19 introduced a significant risk to travel. Many wonder how to mitigate this risk. This is the first …
Rabbitpox: the Story of a Specialized Killer
With poxviruses now back on the radar, we must consider the outstanding threat of possible human pathogens in much greater detail. It is critically important to understand not only how poxviruses jump from one species to another but also how they evolve …
The Vaccinia Virus That Hopped From Rabbits to Hares
Poxviruses are back, and it is no surprise. When the World Health Organization announced the eradication of smallpox over forty years ago, they also halted vaccinations against this lethal infectious disease. Consequently, much of the world population now has no protection against …
FDA Turns Down Fluvoxamine Emergency Use Authorization Request
The Food and Drug Administration denied an emergency use authorization for fluvoxamine as a SARS-CoV-2 antiviral. Fluvoxamine was proposed as a possible antiviral in 2021 due to its mechanisms of action for treating obsessive-compulsive disorder. These same mechanisms were suspected to inhibit …
Omicron Transmission And Immune Evasion Explained By The Omicron Spike’s Unique Structure
The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron family of variants differs from the original isolates as well as other variants. Omicron viruses contain a minimum of 30 mutations in the Spike protein and another 23 elsewhere in the genome. Figure 1 illustrates how significantly mutated one …
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