Outbreak
With a boost from COVID-19, the ‘Neobiological Revolution’ is transforming humanity
In the 1990s, the digital revolution came along and transformed, well, pretty much everything, from the way we communicate with ...
Who gets the first vaccines? Elderly? Front-line workers? Vulnerable minorities?
Someone will have to decide which of the world’s 7.8 billion people gets first crack at returning to a more ...
Science around coronavirus reinfection remains unsettled
[A] Vox article written by a primary care doctor in Washington D.C. laid out an imminent and frightening pandemic scenario, based on ...
Wanted: Volunteers willing to risk getting sick from the coronavirus for the greater good
The Covid-19 Prevention Network, which knits together the existing federal clinical trial infrastructure developed largely to test HIV vaccines and ...
COVID-19 cases surge worldwide as WHO confirms virus is not seasonal
Globally, WHO has reported as on [July 28], 16,301,736 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 650,069 deaths. The Americas remains the epicentre by region, ...
What’s it like being in a Phase 3 coronavirus vaccine trial?
I’m at St George’s for an initial screening as a volunteer in the Oxford University trial to test the ChAdOx1 ...
‘A huge amount of wasted effort’: Most COVID-19 studies too small to yield real results
1,200 clinical trials aimed at testing treatment and prevention strategies against Covid-19 [have been designed] since the start of January ...
The human protein that might explain who’s most at risk from Covid-19
The earliest clinical data out of China showed that some [COVID-19 patients] consistently fared worse than others, notably men, the ...
Who are COVID-19 ‘super spreaders’ and how do they transmit the virus so widely
Growing evidence shows most infected people aren’t spreading the virus. But whether you become a superspreader probably depends more on ...
Ethicists argue for prioritizing safety over speed in pushing for coronavirus vaccine approvals
[W]ithin six months of SARS-CoV-2 appearing on the scene, over 140 vaccine candidates are in the pipeline and clinical trials ...
Podcast: Europe suspends GMO rules to speed COVID vaccine; genes and coronavirus; Keto diet fights Alzheimer’s?
Europe has suspended some of its oppressive GMO regulations to speed development of a COVID-19 vaccine, drawing accusations of hypocrisy ...
Is Dr. Fauci involved in a plot to profit from coronavirus? Sinclair Network pulls Eric Bolling Plandemic conspiracy program that claimed just that
Over the weekend, Sinclair announced it would postpone and "rework" the segment featuring discredited "Plandemic" researcher Judy Mikovits which was ...
In the race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, ethical concerns abound
How do we ethically test it in people? Can people be forced to get the vaccine if they don’t want it? ...
Challenges containing massive inflammation that often accompanies COVID-19
[Brett] Breslow was suffering from a massive bout of inflammation — a catch-all description for the damage in many of ...
Can you get the coronavirus more than once within a few months? Scientists now say that’s unlikely
A New Jersey doctor claimed several patients healed from one bout only to become reinfected with the coronavirus. And another doctor said ...
There are 6 different varieties of coronavirus, each with varying symptoms and severities
Analysis of thousands of cases by artificial intelligence software has revealed different "clusters" of symptoms and ranked them in order ...
The novel coronavirus is a random murderer
Six months into a pandemic that has killed more than 400,000 people globally, scientists are still trying to understand the ...
Vaccination wars: In the fight against COVID-19, pro-vax movement emerges to battle vaccine denialism
A new advocacy campaign is designed to mobilize the majority to speak out to help fight [vaccine] misinformation, at a ...
Early COVID-19 hotspots like New York City and northern Italy may be edging towards herd immunity
There are reasons to think the novel coronavirus began spreading earlier than previously understood, raising the possibility that herd immunity ...
Coronavirus heart threat: 10-to-30 percent of those hospitalized end up with ‘molecular damage’
More than six months into the global pandemic, studies have shown that COVID-19 can not only exacerbate existing heart problems, ...
Genetic puzzle: How mice can be modified to help in the race to develop coronavirus therapies
For more than three decades Michael Koob has been working out complicated puzzles using the tools of molecular biology and genetics ...
Coronavirus mortality rate averages around 1 percent
Researchers, initially analyzing data from outbreaks on cruise ships and more recently from surveys of thousands of people in virus hot ...
COVID-19 undercount: CDC now says as many as 24 times more people in the US infected
[A] study, published [July 21] in JAMA Internal Medicine [determined that the true number of U.S. coronavirus cases could be ...
Three vaccines show the most promise in stimulating immune responses
Vaccines being developed by University of Oxford researchers and AstraZeneca; Pfizer and German partner BioNTech; and China’s CanSino Biologics all ...
‘Desperation is not a strategy’: Slew of low quality studies clouds picture of how to confront COVID-19
Desperate to solve the deadly conundrum of COVID-19, the world is clamoring for fast answers and solutions from a research ...
Coronavirus missiles: See for yourself if 6 feet of separation is enough protection from a cough
[Lydia] Bourouiba, a fluid dynamics scientist at MIT, has spent the last few years using high-speed cameras and light to ...
In your genes? DNA holds clues about how you will fare when exposed to coronavirus
Although the spread of SARS-CoV2, the virus causing COVID-19, has slowed in many places that have successfully “flattened the curve”, ...
Anti-vax activists exploit dark history of Tuskegee syphilis study to stir Black opposition to COVID-19 vaccines
[There’s] a remarkable new alliance between the anti-vaccine movement and black leaders in Colorado. Among those who testified against [a ...
