The United States is doing so little of the genetic sequencing needed to detect new variants of the coronavirus — like the ones first identified in Great Britain and South Africa [...]
The road to herd immunity from the coronavirus suddenly looks longer. The emergence of more transmissible, potentially vaccine-evading variants threatens to extend the global health disaster and make 2021 feel too [...]
I also expect we’ll see huge advances over the next five years in our ability to develop new vaccines—in large part due to the success of mRNA vaccines for COVID-19. [...]
Bill Gates famously warned about the risk of a pandemic in 2015, and in 2021 he offers ideas on vaccines and preparing for the next pandemic. Gates stresses that spending [...]
It's not just death - here's why you don't want Covid-19 There's a lot that we still don't understand about Covid-19 and we are just beginning to see the long-term [...]
As President Biden sets a new goal of 1.5 million vaccines a day despite the demand exceeding the supply, Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research at the [...]
Cork, Ireland (CNN) When Ireland came out of a strict six-week lockdown in December it had one of the lowest levels of Covid-19 cases in Europe. Since then, the situation [...]
President-elect Joe Biden’s team suggested on Friday that, when the new administration takes office, it intends to release every available dose of the covid-19 vaccine. Biden, a spokesman said, “believes the [...]
Source: MSNBC Presidential historian Jon Meacham reacts to the consequential week in America following the deadly insurrection on Capitol Hill incited by Trump. "THIS WAS A FUNDAMENTAL REALITY. AND IF [...]
ABSTRACT: To date, uncertainty remains about how long the protective immune responses against SARSCoV- 2 persists and the first reports of suspected reinfection began to be described in recovered patients [...]
