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One More COVID Summer?
[ad_1] Since the pandemic’s earliest days, epidemiologists have been waiting for the coronavirus to finally snap out of its pan-season spree. No more spring…
Tag: immune systems
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A Major Breed of Flu Has Gone Missing
[ad_1] In March 2020, Yamagata’s trail went cold. The pathogen, one of the four main groups of flu viruses targeted by seasonal vaccines, had…
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Life Is Worse for Older People Now
[ad_1] Last December, during a Christmas Eve celebration with my in-laws in California, I observed what I now realize was the future of COVID…
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The COVID Question That Will Take Decades to Answer
[ad_1] To be a newborn in the year 2023—and, almost certainly, every year that follows—means emerging into a world where the coronavirus is ubiquitous.…
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Airplane Toilets Could Catch the Next COVID Variant
[ad_1] Airplane bathrooms are not most people’s idea of a good time. They’re barely big enough to turn around in. Their doors stick, like…
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It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Another COVID Surge
[ad_1] When I called the epidemiologist Denis Nash this week to discuss the country’s worsening COVID numbers, he was about to take a rapid…
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The Fatal Error of an Ancient, HIV-Like Virus
[ad_1] Many, many millions of years ago, an HIV-like virus wriggled its way into the genome of a floofy, bulgy-eyed lemur, and got permanently…