Bivalent Covid-19 Vaccines — A Cautionary Tale.


List of authors. Paul A. Offit, M.D New England Journal of Medicine January 23, 2023 in Wuhan, China. Two months later, the original strain of SARS-CoV-2, called the Wuhan-1 or…[...]

What COVID-19 variants are going around in November 2022?


Authors: Nebraska Medicine November 1, 2022 There are currently more than 37,000 cases reported in the United States per day, with test positivity of 8.6%. When test positivity is above 5%,…[...]

New Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 Sublineages May Evade Vaccines, Natural Immunity. What Experts Say


Authors: Mint Newsletters April 29, 2022 The BA.4 and BA.5 sublineages appear to be more infectious than the earlier BA.2 lineageThe sub-lineages have been detected in seven of South Africa’s…[...]

This New COVID Variant Is the Most Unpredictable One Yet


Authors: David Axe Published Apr. 03, 2022 10:47PM ET  After spreading across Asia and Europe, the BA.2 subvariant of the novel coronavirus is now dominant in the United States, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and…[...]

Close relatives of MERS-CoV in bats use ACE2 as their functional receptors


Authors: Qing Xiong,  View ORCID , , ei Cao,  Chengbao Ma,  Chen Liu, Junyu Si,  Peng Liu,  Mengxue Gu,  Chunli Wang, Lulu Shi, Fei Tong, Meiling Huang, Jing Li, Chufeng Zhao,  Chao Shen,   Yu Chen,   Huabin Zhao,  Ke Lan,  Xiangxi Wang,  Huan Yan Summary Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and several bat coronaviruses employ Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP4) as…[...]