Waves of influenza, like cold-causing coronaviruses, don’t come and go at random. They’re seasonal, recurring in patterns we can anticipate and plan ahead for. Will this be true of SARS-CoV-2?
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For Insight On New Covid-19 Variants, Look To Natural History Of Coronaviruses
Though the human coronavirus 229E isn’t nearly as hot a topic as SARS-CoV-2 these days, it is one of several coronaviruses that have been causing us colds for more than half a century. It also has lessons to teach us about the ability of coronaviruses …
Biden’s Covid-19 Plan Is A Welcome Relief — But It Needs To Go Further
The new administration’s Covid-19 plan signals a new era of competent and responsive leadership. Yet with the death toll surpassing 400,000, the plan needs to go much further.
Billions In Low-Income Nations Will Not Receive Their Vaccine Anytime Soon
Unless there’s a significant increase in production and distribution, billions will not receive the vaccine in 2021, most of which are located in low-income countries, which will result in hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of unnecessary deaths.
HHS Regulations With Enduring Impact On Pricing And Reimbursement Of Medical Services And Technologies
Under Secretary Azar and Administrator Verma’s stewardship, HHS and CMS have pursued an ambitious policy agenda on transparency, drug pricing, and medical device reimbursement, one the Biden Administration is unlikely to abandon.
Can SARS-CoV-2 Become Even More Troublesome Than The UK And South African Variants?
We are rapidly learning how SARS-CoV-2 mutates to create variants with new characteristics. In a preprint published on January 11, scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science describe an experiment in which they attempt to mimic what occurs natur…
Researchers Identify New Covid-19 Variant In Ohio
Now that we’re ramping up our ability to surveil the virus and follow our leads, we must also pivot from a place of complacency to one of heightened vigilance.
New Covid-19 Variants Reshape Our Understanding Of Reinfection
While Covid-19 reinfections have been reported and confirmed previously, the case of one 45-year-old woman in Brazil is the first to involve the potentially dangerous mutation E484K.
When Society Returns To Normal Post-Pandemic, Common Viruses Will Return In Droves
Covid-19 policy measures brought unexpected side effects to the public health sphere. Transmission of other common viruses has hit record lows. Why has this happened, and what will the implications be when the pandemic comes to a close?
Why America Should Look To China To Contain Covid-19
Despite experiencing the world’s first major epidemic, China has controlled Covid-19 since mid-spring better than almost any other country.
