Authors: Anne Trafton MIT News First Published May 17, 2021 In early 2020, a few months after the Covid-19 pandemic began, scientists were able to sequence the full genome of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the Covid-19 infection. While many of its genes were already known at that point, the full complement of protein-coding genes […]
Priorities Are Misguided Authors: BY CARY FUNK, ALEC TYSON, GIANCARLO PASQUINI AND ALISON SPENCER July 7, 2022 Pew Research As levels of public concern over the coronavirus outbreak recede, Americans offer a lackluster evaluation of how the country has balanced priorities during the outbreak. A majority of U.S. adults say the country has given too little priority to meeting the […]
Authors: Tina Reed, July 9, 2022 Axios Vitals As this summer heats up, so has the spread of the hot new version of COVID-19. Why it matters: This subvariant of Omicron called BA.5 — the most transmissible subvariant yet — quickly overtook previous strains to become the dominant version circulating the U.S. and much of the world. BA.5 is […]
Authors Michelle Edwards July 7, 2022 Austrian MP Mag. Gerald Hauser recently posed demanding questions to the country’s Minister of Health Johannes Rauch concerning liability surrounding the COVID-19 jabs. Rauch’s responses indicate that medical professionals—who blindly followed the “evidence-less” assurances from the ministry that the shots were safe—could very likely be held responsible in the event of vaccination […]
With its unscientific push to vaccinate all infants and toddlers against COVID, the agency will harm vaccine uptake for more significant diseases Authors: LESLIE BIENEN, TRACY BETH HØEG JULY 05, 2022 Tablet On June 18, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officially recommended Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for all children between the ages […]
Authors: Jim Hoft July 8, 2022 Gateway Pundit A new study from Israel reveals that there was “no increase in the incidence of myocarditis and pericarditis” in unvaccinated adults who had COVID-19 infection. This contradicts the findings of earlier studies that suggested there may be a connection between cardiac inflammation and coronavirus infections. In a […]
An Italian review of COVID studies found that boosters restore vaccine effectiveness against omicron initially, but that protection falls off quickly Authors: NBC News July 8, 2022 COVID booster shots appear to be less than 20% effective against infection with the omicron variant of the virus just a few months after the booster is given, a new […]
Authors: David Axe Fri, July 8, 2022 Yahoo News When Will People Realize That COVID is Here To Stay? Live With It! The latest subvariant of the novel coronavirus to become dominant in Europe, the United States, and other places is also, in many ways, the worst so far. The BA.5 subvariant of the basic Omicron variant appears to […]
Authors: Tom H. Karlsen Nature Genetics volume 54, pages368–369 (2022)Cite this article 8742 Accesses 1 Citations 87 Altmetric Defining the most appropriate phenotypes in genome-wide association studies of COVID-19 is challenging, and two new publications demonstrate how case-control definitions critically determine outcomes and downstream clinical utility of findings. Exploring self-reported data from more than 700,000 participants in a direct-to-consumer ancestry genetics […]
