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COVID Pandemic May Have Driven a Flu Strain Into Extinction
One of the four flu strains -- B/Yamagata -- included in annual flu shots appears to have fallen off the radar.
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How tracking coronavirus variants will prepare us for the next global public health threat
Genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 is helping us spot new variants and figure out how to respond. What else could it help us do?
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How Covid changed medicine for the future
The global pandemic sparked a huge superhuman effort to control coronavirus. But the billions spent have also had an unexpected impact on medicine and science
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After Omicron, we could use a break. We may just get it
By month 25 of the Covid-19 pandemic, we all probably should have learned not to try to anticipate what the SARS-CoV-2 virus is going to do next. It has so consistently defied predictions.
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Covid loses 90% of ability to infect within 20 minutes in air – study
Coronavirus loses 90% of its ability to infect us within 20 minutes of becoming airborne – with most of the loss occurring within the first five minutes, the world’s first simulations of how the virus survives in exhaled air suggest. The findings re-emphasise the importance of short-range Covid transmission, with physical distancing and mask-wearing likely to be the most effective means of preventing infection. Ventilation, though still worthwhile, is likely to have a lesser impact.
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Evidence for a mouse origin of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant
The rapid accumulation of mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant that enabled its outbreak raises questions as to whether its proximal origin occurred in humans or another mammalian host. Here, we identified 45 point mutations that Omicron acquired ...
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Omicron is spreading at lightning speed. Scientists are trying to figure out why
In late November, more than 110 people gathered at a crowded Christmas party at a restaurant in Oslo, Norway. Most of the guests were fully vaccinated. One had returned from South Africa just a few days earlier and was unknowingly carrying the omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2.
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These are the viruses that mRNA vaccines may take on next
Now that mRNA vaccines have proved effective against the coronavirus, scientists are taking aim at influenza, HIV and other viruses.
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Covid: Don't panic about Omicron variant, WHO says
The World Health Organization urges people to be cautious and prepare for the Omicron variant.
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Meat-eating creates risk of new pandemic that ‘would make Covid look like a dress rehearsal’
‘If we could see eating meat as a treat, not a right, we could reduce the speed at which another virus evolves,’ says professor
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Omicron variant of Covid-19 has ‘unusual but mild’ symptoms, doctor who raised alarm says
The first South African doctor to alert the authorities about patients with the Omicron variant says the symptoms differed from previous Covid patients.
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Plant-derived antiviral drug is effective in blocking highly infectious SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant, say scientists
A plant-based antiviral treatment for Covid-19, recently discovered by scientists at the University of Nottingham, has been found to be just as effective at treating all variants of the virus SARS-CoV-2, even the highly infectious Delta variant.
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Vials Labeled ‘Smallpox’ Are Found in Pennsylvania Laboratory
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it was working with law enforcement to investigate the vials.
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Woman’s own immune system has possibly cured her of HIV
A woman in Argentina has become only the second documented person whose own immune system may have cured her of HIV. Researchers have dubbed the 30-year-old mother, who was first diagnosed with HIV in 2013, the “Esperanza patient,” after the town in Argentina where she lives. In English, “esperanza” means “hope.”
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New Pfizer antiviral and ivermectin, a pharmacodynamic analysis
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106 Research Studies Affirm Naturally Acquired Immunity to Covid-19: Documented, Linked, and Quoted ⋆ Brownstone Institute
We should not force COVID vaccines on anyone when the evidence shows that naturally acquired immunity is equal to or more robust and superior to existing vaccines. Instead, we should respect the right of the bodily integrity of individuals to decide for themselves.
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Analysis: Country by country, scientists eye beginning of an end to the COVID-19 pandemic
As the devastating Delta variant surge eases in many regions of the world, scientists are charting when, and where, COVID-19 will transition to an endemic disease in 2022 and beyond, according to Reuters interviews with over a dozen leading disease experts.
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Vaccinated People Less Likely to Transmit COVID-19
COVID-19 transmission from so-called “breakthrough infections” may be significantly lower than was earlier suggested. Experts say that they have looked at multiple studies on vaccinated people who’ve developed COVID-19 and have come to the conclusion that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance on transmission from breakthrough cases may have been overstated.
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In Major Shift, NIH Admits Funding Risky Virus Research in Wuhan
A spokesman for Dr. Fauci says he has been “entirely truthful,” but a new letter belatedly acknowledging the National Institutes of Health’s support for virus-enhancing research adds more heat to the ongoing debate over whether a lab leak could have sparked the pandemic.
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Aspirin lowers risk of COVID: New findings support preliminary trial
The treatment reduced the risk of reaching mechanical ventilation by 44%. ICU admissions were lower by 43%, and an overall in-hospital mortality saw a 47% decrease.
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