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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 [...]
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 [...]
Source: YouTube Sir John Bell, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University, has warned that the South African variant of COVID is more worrying than the Kent one "by some [...]
Eric J. Topol, MD: Hello. This is Eric Topol for Medscape One-on-One. I'm really delighted to have the chance to have a conversation with Professor Eddie Holmes, one of the [...]
Jeremy Farrar, 59, is director of the Wellcome Trust, leading the world's second largest foundation supporting medical research. The scientist was head of the clinical research unit at the Hospital for [...]
More than 30 countries have reported cases of the highly transmissible “U.K. variant” of the novel coronavirus, raising fears of increased global spread of the virus, even as countries begin [...]
Natural selection is a powerful force. In circumstances that are still disputed, it took a bat coronavirus and adapted it to people instead. The result has spread around the globe. [...]
The variant is causing mayhem in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe. Yesterday, U.K. prime minister Boris Johnson announced stricter lockdown measures, saying the strain, which goes by the [...]
Officials in Britain and South Africa claim new variants are more easily transmitted. There’s a lot more to the story, scientists say. By Apoorva Mandavilli Source: The New York Times Just [...]
Independent 501.V2 Variant identified by South African researchers (same Spike mutation as UK Variant) South African scientists and health officials announced on Friday the discovery of a new lineage of [...]
