What do we know about the Delta variant so far? How can we assess our risk? What strategies should we apply to protect ourselves whether we are in a low vaccination or high vaccination setting? […]
A New Coronavirus Detected In Patients At Malaysian Hospital; The Source could also be Dogs The last 2 decades, new coronaviruses have emerged from animals with remarkable regularity. In 2002, SARS-CoV jumped from civets into […]
Don’t make the same mistakes Fauci warns as Europe struggles to contain its third coronavirus wave While coronavirus is still spreading across the US, infection levels remain high and new variants are putting the progress […]
New Variants of the Virus that Causes COVID-19 Information about the characteristics of these variants is rapidly emerging. Scientists are working to learn more about how easily they spread, whether they could cause more severe […]
Genetics experts worry coronavirus vaccines might not work quite as well against UK variant. A recent article on CNN gives a new perspective about the expected vaccine: Michael Worobey, a biologist at the University […]
The good news is that finally we are close to the release of an authorized vaccine for Covid-19. However, coronavirus pandemic will “run its course” for six to eight weeks before any benefit from any […]
Massive study in UK finds coronavirus antibodies wane over several months UK researchers are suggesting levels of antibodies produced by the immune system in response to SARS-CoV-2 may significantly drop in the months following an […]
Coronavirus May Stay for Weeks on Banknotes and Touchscreens COVID-19 causing virus lasts for 10 days longer than Influenza on some surfaces. Lower temps, glass, stainless steel and paper banknotes give virus longer life. Researchers […]
Face masks don’t affect lungs, virus lives on skin for 9 hrs The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines […]
FDA is warning consumers and health care providers that the agency has seen a sharp increase in hand sanitizer products that are labeled to contain ethanol (also known as ethyl alcohol) but that have tested positive for […]
