Looking at a list of pandemics COVID-19 is ranking at about the percent of global population loss (0.07-0.25%) at about the level of the 1957 flu (0.03-0.1%). World population is now over three times larger so instead of 1.1-4.0 million global population hit, the 1957 flu would adjust to 3.6 to 13 million…
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UK’s Sunak tries to move on from COVID with new spending plans
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One of the four flu strains — B/Yamagata — included in annual flu shots appears to have fallen off the radar…
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Viruses mutate a lot, and SARS-CoV-2 is no exception. NIAID-RMLMutations are normal, but there’s still a lot virologists don’t understand about the new variants. The post Everything we know about COVID-19 variants like delta-plus appeared first on Popular Science…
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As many as two-thirds of nurses, by some estimates, have said they’ve considered leaving their jobs over the past few months. Given the various horrors of the last year and a half, it’s easy to understand why: Stories of crowded city pandemic wards and medical staff sourcing their own personal protective equipment are impossible to…
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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have analyzed the presence of SARS-CoV-2-specific antibodies and memory cells of the immune system in young adults. The results, published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, show that over one in four had antibodies due to the infection…
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A Georgia man appeared in court documents accused of defrauding the government for thousands of dollars in COVID-19 relief money. Part of said money was placed in a bank account, and part was spent on one single Pokemon card. As you may have guessed, that Pokemon card was a 1st-edition Shadowless Charizard from the first…
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Data from an interim study showed two 50 microgram doses of the vaccine, half the strength of the doses used in the vaccine given to adults, generated virus-neutralizing antibodies in children.
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Some people have already begun receiving third doses, and the timeline is different depending on which shot you got first. Unsplash Many people in the United States are now eligible for a booster vaccine. The post Can I get a COVID booster shot? And everything else you need to know…
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Germany’s seven-day coronavirus incidence rate reached 100 infections per 100,000 people on Saturday for the first time since May, following a surge in cases in recent weeks…
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