Rapid Spread Of Variants Across Europe Is A Dire Warning For The U.S.
Random variation is an essential component of all living things. It drives diversity, and it is why there are so many different species. Viruses are no exception. Most viruses are experts at changing genomes to adapt to their environment. We now have …
This Region Of The Covid-19 Virus Is One We Can’t Ignore
Random variation is an essential component of all living things. It drives diversity, and it is why there are so many different species. Viruses are no exception. Most viruses are experts at changing genomes to adapt to their environment. We now have …
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 …
Covid-19 Could End Up Like The Flu—Or Worse
The more we learn about emergent variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, the more obvious it becomes that we underestimated their potential impact on our lives. Between growing evidence of increased transmissibility, immune evasion, and possibly even lethality, I can now say …
Concerns Grow Over The Newly Discovered Southern California Covid-19 Variant
The rate at which new variants have appeared over the past few months is alarming. In the past few weeks alone, along with the insurgence of the United Kingdom (B.1.1.7) and South African (B.1.351) variants, more have been identified in Brazil, Ohio, …
Travel Bans Won’t Stop The Spread Of New Variants — Travel Restrictions Might
A lot has been made of the Biden administration’s move to ban non-US travelers from South Africa to the United States and to extend the ban on travelers from Brazil and twenty-eight countries in Europe. The move is an attempt to limit …
Will Population (Herd) Immunity To Covid-19 Be Permanent Or Seasonal?
In just three weeks, the number of Covid-19 cases in the United States has plummeted by 35 percent. Death rates have yet to follow suit, but they have leveled out, with hospitalization rates on the decline, too. Given that the vaccine rollout is …
Autoantibodies May Be The Driver Behind Severe Covid-19 Reactions
While vaccine distribution and President Biden’s inauguration occupied most of the media’s attention, January marked the peaks of hospitalization and deaths among Covid-19 patients in the United States. Over 130,000 were in the hospital with severe Covid-19 symptoms in the past two …
A Tale Of Two Viruses
As we enter the last week of January, much uncertainty remains around how new variants of the Covid-19 virus, SARS-CoV-2, will shape the year ahead of us. Reports from British officials that B.1.1.7, the so-called UK variant, isn’t just more transmissible than its predecessors …
This Devastating Covid-19 Outbreak In Brazil Is A Warning To The Rest Of The World
In March 2020, the Brazilian city of Manaus, the largest urban area in the Amazon, identified its first case of Covid-19. Prevalence of the disease went on to peak in early May, bringing untold devastation to local hospitals, economies, and community life. …
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