The Biden Administration is considering whether to temporarily lift intellectual property protections on Covid-19 treatments and vaccines. The Administration will need to tread a very fine line if it decides to try and coax companies into selling their…
There is now a new mutant to add to the global SARS-CoV-2 variant collection, this one in Belgium. This new Belgian variant (B.1.214), first detected in January by researchers at the University of Liege, appears to have the potential to become quite pe…
All public health officials agree, the United States is at a critical stage if we want to control the pandemic.
A new CDC study has revealed that the mRNA Covid-19 vaccines are 90 percent effective at preventing infection. Further research should focus on finding out how long that protection will last and whether variants will negatively impact its duration.
A new study publish sorted participants into five different categories based on the titer and duration of their neutralizing antibody response. Some never developed detectable levels of anti-Covid-19 antibodies, while others have some that could potent…
The iconic skiing resort in Whistler, BC has been ordered to close following a surge in Covid-19 cases caused by the P.1 variant.
Among the hardest hit are children from low-income families, where school closures and the high cost of childcare forced previously employed parents to give up their jobs and income to care for their kids.
While the original strain was already capable of infecting enough animal species to fill Noah’s ark, the new variants are even more adventurous, finding a home in an even larger range of animal hosts.
The results suggest that the more protective a vaccine is immediately following immunization, the longer protection will last. More than that, however, they imply we’ll have to retool our vaccine strategies so they better address the issue of waning im…
s spring break travelers return home to different corners of the U.S. they could accelerate the spread of the variants, prompting a potential national surge unless states cease relaxing Covid-19 restrictions
