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2 new COVID variants called 'FLiRT' are spreading in the U.S. What are the symptoms?
TODAY via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoThe new "FLiRT" COVID-19 variants, including KP.2, are spreading in the United States. Will there be...
A Man Had Covid For 613 Straight Days—and Created a Whole New Mutation
Prevention via Yahoo News· 3 days agoA new case study of a 72-year-old man from the Netherlands who had a sustained COVID...around scary...
Quiz: Can you pass our 9 question test on the latest theories of COVID-19 transmission
WLRN Miami· 5 days agoThe arrival of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, brought a batch of vocabulary into...
ESCMID Presenters Make Case for Saliva Samples in Molecular Infectious Disease Testing
GenomeWeb News· 4 days agoSaliva is a promising sample type for molecular diagnostic testing in infectious diseases beyond ...
Scientists tried to give people COVID — and failed
Nature· 3 days agoResearchers deliberately infect participants with SARS-CoV-2 in ‘challenge’ trials — but high levels of immunity complicate efforts to test vaccines and...
Virologist who was first to share COVID genome is shut out of lab in China
Nature· 3 days agoZhang Yongzhen shared the genomic sequence of SARS-CoV-2 with the world, speeding the development of...
A Dutch man with lymphoma and other blood disorders was infected with the COVID-causing virus for...
Scientific American· 3 days agoWhen the Omicron strain of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, was surging around the world in...
High-risk patients with COVID symptoms should use PCR rather than rapid tests, study suggests
Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy· 2 days agoFrom November 2022 to May 2023, a team led by researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control...
In a first, AstraZeneca admits its Covid vaccine can cause rare blood clots
The Independent via Yahoo News· 4 days ago“In countries with ongoing SARS-CoV-2 transmission, the benefit of vaccination in protecting against...
TIME100 Health: Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman
Time via Yahoo News· 2 days agoIn under a year, both Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna developed mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines based on Kariko and Weissman’s method. The shots helped to slow...