The virus that causes COVID-19 has been spreading through Virginia wildlife, and Virginia Tech researchers say well-populated areas are likely where it spread from humans to animals. The…
Read more Virus that causes COVID widespread in wildlife, Virginia Tech researchers say – WTOP NewsFour years after what was once the “novel coronavirus” was declared a pandemic, COVID remains the most dangerous infectious respiratory illness regularly circulating in the U.S. But a…
Read more Why Are We Still Flu-ifying COVID?In Linfa Wang’s ideal world, all humans would be just a bit more bat-like. Wang, a biochemist and zoonotic-disease expert at Duke-NUS Medical School, in Singapore, has no…
Read more Bats Could Hold the Secret to Better, Longer Human LifeSince the pandemic’s earliest days, epidemiologists have been waiting for the coronavirus to finally snap out of its pan-season spree. No more spring waves like the first to…
Read more One More COVID Summer?The lab-leak theory of COVID’s origin has always been a little squirrelly. If SARS-CoV-2 really did begin infecting humans in a research setting, the evidence that got left…
Read more The COVID-Origins Debate Has Split Into Parallel WorldsEmergency responses—being, well, emergency responses—aren’t designed to last forever, and this morning, the World Health Organization declared the one that’s been in place for the COVID-19 pandemic since…
Read more Only the Emergency Has EndedBy all official counts—at least, the ones still being tallied—the global situation on COVID appears to have essentially flatlined. More than a year has passed since the world…
Read more Will COVID’s Spring Lull Last?Updated at 2:45 p.m. on March 21, 2023 Last week, the ongoing debate about COVID-19’s origins acquired a new plot twist. A French evolutionary biologist stumbled across a…
Read more A Major Clue to COVID’s Origins Is Just Out of ReachFor three years now, the debate over the origins of the coronavirus pandemic has ping-ponged between two big ideas: that SARS-CoV-2 spilled into human populations directly from a…
Read more The Strongest Evidence Yet That an Animal Started the PandemicTo be a newborn in the year 2023—and, almost certainly, every year that follows—means emerging into a world where the coronavirus is ubiquitous. Babies might not meet the…
Read more The COVID Question That Will Take Decades to AnswerRESEARCH SUMMARY Publication: Nature Genetics https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-023-01307-z Dana-Farber Cancer Institute author: Cigall Kadoch, PhD, Summary: A new class of oral drugs can inhibit a wide range of SARS-CoV-2…
Read more New Class of Drugs May Prevent Infection by Wide Range of COVID-19 VariantsFor all the legwork that public-health experts have done over the past few years to quash comparisons between COVID-19 and the flu, there sure seems to be a…
Read more COVID Vaccines Are Turning Into Flu ShotsThree years into the global fight against SARS-CoV-2, the arsenal to combat long COVID remains depressingly bare. Being vaccinated seems to reduce people’s chances of developing the condition,…
Read more Trying to Stop Long COVID Before It Even StartsThis past spring, Amanda Goldberg crouched in the leafy undergrowth of a southwestern Virginia forest and attempted to swab a mouse for COVID. No luck; its nose was…
Read more Consider Armadillo COVIDAt the start of the coronavirus pandemic, one of the worst things about SARS-CoV-2 was that it was so new: The world lacked immunity, treatments, and vaccines. Tests…
Read more Is COVID a Common Cold Yet?In the Northern Hemisphere, this year’s winter hasn’t yet begun. But Melissa J. Sacco, a pediatric-intensive-care specialist at UVA Health, is already dreading the arrival of the one…
Read more Will Flu and RSV Always Be This Bad?In COVID terms, the middle of last autumn looked a lot like this one. After a rough summer, SARS-CoV-2 infections were down; hospitalizations and deaths were in a…
Read more Will We Get Omicron’d Again?At the height of the coronavirus pandemic, as lines of ambulances roared down the streets and freezer vans packed into parking lots, the pediatric emergency department at Our…
Read more The Worst Pediatric-Care Crisis in DecadesFor the first couple of years of the coronavirus pandemic, the crisis was marked by a succession of variants that pummeled us one at a time. The original…
Read more COVID Antibody Treatments Are in DeclineAfter testing positive for Covid-19 again, Ringo Starr (seen here with his wife Barbara Bach on July … [+] 7, 2022) has canceled the rest of his 2022…
Read more Ringo Starr Has Covid-19 Rebound, Cancels 2022 Tour
