Authors: Yasmeen Abutaleb, Joel Achenbach May 6, 2022 The Washington Post The Biden administration is warning the United States could see 100 million coronavirus infections and a potentially significant wave of deaths this fall and winter, driven by new omicron subvariants that have shown a remarkable ability to escape immunity. The projection, made Friday by […]
Authors: Mint Newsletters April 29, 2022 The BA.4 and BA.5 sublineages appear to be more infectious than the earlier BA.2 lineage The sub-lineages have been detected in seven of South Africa’s nine provinces and 20 countries worldwide New omicron sublineages, discovered by South African scientists this month, are likely able to evade vaccines and natural […]
Authors: David Axe Published Apr. 07, 2022 4:49AM ET The first subvariant of Omicron, the latest major variant of the novel coronavirus, was bad. BA.1 drove record cases and hospitalizations in many countries starting last fall. The second subvariant, BA.2, was worse in some countries—setting new records for daily cases across China and parts of Europe. Now BA.1 and BA.2 have combined […]
Authors: Tom Tapp March 31, 2022 4:46pm Deadline Breaking News Alerts The CDC announced this week that the BA.2 Omicron variant, which is reportedly 30% more transmissible than the original BA.1 Omicron strain — has become dominant among new cases sequenced in the United States. That’s a startling rise for a variant that was less than 1% of all sequences as recently […]
Authors: Tarun Sai Lomte Mar 24 2022 BioRxiv In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers evaluated the stability and expression of mutations in the spike (S) protein of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has resulted in extensive research into S protein. […]
Authors: Jules Gomes • ChurchMilitant.com • March 2, 2022 The mRNA from Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine converts into DNA within six hours of entering the body’s liver cells according to a groundbreaking study by Swedish researchers at Lund University. The explosive peer-reviewed research demolishes countless assertions by the “fact-checkers” and global health organizations. Fact-Checkers Caught UNICEF, for example, asserted that “mRNA vaccines are not […]
Gene changes caused by SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins provide a potential answer for what causes long-haul COVID-19, Texas researchers find As COVID-19 vaccines become widely available and cases of COVID-19 in the United States begin to drop, the medical community is beginning to focus more on the long-term effects of COVID-19. Sometimes called “long-haul COVID-19,” the […]
Authors: Nancy D. Lamontagne April 30, 2021 Airway cells exposed to SARS-CoV-2 spike protein exhibited persisting changes in gene expression Results from a new cell study suggest that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein can bring about long-term gene expression changes. The findings could help explain why some COVID-19 patients—referred to as COVID long-haulers—experience symptoms such as […]
Issued on: 01/09/2021 – 07:25 The World Health Organization has said it is monitoring a new coronavirus variant known as “Mu”, which was first identified in Colombia in January 2021. Mu, known scientifically as B.1.621, has been classified as a “variant of interest”, the global health body said Tuesday in its weekly pandemic bulletin. The WHO said the variant […]
Authors: By Yaron SteinbuchAugust 30, 2021 10:50am A COVID-19 variant first detected in South Africa could be more infectious than other mutations — and may have the potential of being resistant to vaccines, according to a report. The C.1.2 strain has been linked to “increased transmissibility” and is said to have mutated the most from the original virus, which […]