By Jim Hᴏft May. 6, 2024 Just in time for the election… Two new COVID-19 variants, collectively known as “FLiRT,” have been detected and are reportedly spreading across the United States. The […]
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%, […]
COVID Variant That Beats Our Immunity Is Finally Here
Authors: David Axe Updated Oct. 16, 2022 A new subvariant of the novel-coronavirus called XBB dramatically announced itself earlier this week, in Singapore. New COVID-19 cases more than doubled in a day, from 4,700 […]
Tracking coronavirus in animals takes on new urgency
Authors: Ariana Eunjung Cha May 20, 2022 The Washington Post Researchers Sarah Hamer and Lisa Auckland donned their masks and gowns as they pulled up to the suburban home in […]
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 lineage The sub-lineages have been detected in seven of South […]
Two new Omicron COVID subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 being analyzed by WHO
Only a few dozen cases of BA.4 and BA.5 have been reported to the global GISAID database, according to WHO Authors: Jennifer Rigby Reuters April 11, 2022 The World Health […]
COVID cases rise again in half the states
Change in reported COVID-19 cases per 100k people in the last two weeks March 23 to April 5, 2022 Half of the states are seeing COVID case numbers rise again […]
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 […]