William A. Haseltine, Contributor

The pandemic has triggered a surge of new eating disorders and relapses in young people. Many of these young people are still struggling without access to treatment.

A new meta-analysis from the University of Calgary, showing that depression and anxiety symptoms have doubled in children and adolescents globally when compared to pre-pandemic times.

SARS-CoV-2 mechanisms of immune suppression can be generally described as either specific or nonspecific. Learning about them unlocks opportunities for Covid-19 drug development.

The bookends of the viral genome are responsible for many of the virus’s critical functions, including initiation of replication, protein synthesis, and messenger RNA synthesis.

A new study by Public Health Ontario, finds that infants and toddlers (0-3 years) are less likely to bring SARS-CoV-2 into the home but are more likely to transmit SARS-CoV-2 compared with older children (14-17 years).

Not only does the Covid-19 virus have to conceal its replication activity via a double membrane vesicle, it must also camouflage viral messenger RNAs so they evade immune detection.

A new preprint study presents the alarming finding that children born during the pandemic in the US show reduced verbal, motor, and overall cognitive performance compared to children born pre-pandemic.

Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln recently described in Science Advances a new material that may prove to be effective for bone repair that requires either added cells or growth factors.

To minimize risk of immune detection, the Covid-19 virus sets itself up in a privileged vesicle where replication enzymes can whir away unnoticed.

Everyone is desperate to understand how the pandemic ends, what will be the silver bullet that saves us all. The answer is not that simple nor is it a comfortable easily digestible narrative. As the virus changes and evolves, the answer will also change.