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2 new COVID variants called 'FLiRT' are spreading in the U.S. What are the symptoms?
AOL· 1 day agoRespiratory virus season may be ending in the United States, but a new group of COVID-19 variants are circulating, sparking concerns about a potential summer wave. The family of variants, nicknamed ...
WHO COVID vaccine advisers recommend switch to JN.1 strain
Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy· 5 days agoThe World Health Organization (WHO) Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 Vaccine Composition, which...
AstraZeneca admits Covishield jab raises TTS risk. Should you be worried?
Investing.com· 5 days agoNew Delhi, April 30 (IANS) Thrombosis Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (TTS) -- a blood clot disorder -- is...
Scientist who gave world the Covid sequence is locked out of his lab by Chinese
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe Chinese scientist who defied Beijing to publish the first coronavirus sequence has staged a...
Pandemic fatigue and vaccine hesitancy continue to affect global public health, new 23-country study...
Medical Xpress· 6 days agoWhile it found that global uptake of at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose was robust, a new survey...
Study reveals how COVID-19 vaccines prevent severe disease
Medical Xpress· 2 days agoDespite the global success of COVID-19 vaccination campaigns, concerns remain around the continued spread of this disease including in vaccinated individuals. For this reason, researchers at ...
TIME100 Health: Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman
Time Magazine· 3 days agoDr. Drew Weissman was working on developing an HIV vaccine, and Katalin Kariko was struggling to keep her lab open and convince her superiors that her...
High-risk patients with COVID symptoms should use PCR rather than rapid tests, study suggests
Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy· 3 days ago...November 2022 to May 2023, a team led by researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and...
Mpox: why the virus’s continued, rapid mutation since the 2022 global outbreak remains a concern
The Conversation· 6 days agoIn 2022, as the world was slowly beginning to recover from the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, an outbreak of mpox – then still called monkeypox – began spreading at an alarming rate in many ...
New ‘FLiRT’ Variants Spark Summer COVID Surge Warning
WebMD· 5 days agoWhat’s more, said Ranney, FLiRT also has some concerning features, like changes in the spike protein, which play a role in helping SARS-CoV-2< ...