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COVID will Likely Shift from Pandemic to Endemic — But What Does That Mean?
Most people are wondering when and how the COVID pandemic will end and there are still no easy answers. The word “endemic” is regularly mentioned, especially…
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Kids and COVID: Why Young Immune Systems are Still on Top
Innate immunity might be the key to why children have fared better with the virus. But the Delta variant poses fresh unknowns. Early last year, children’s…
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COVID Infections May Give More Potent immunity Than Vaccines – But That Doesn’t Mean You Should Try to Catch It
Israel was way ahead of the rest of the world when it came to COVID vaccination, so it’s not surprising that data from this corner of…
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The G20 Must Recommit to COVAX
Additional G20 support can make the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access facility a success. Failure to achieve equitable access would mean more lives lost, broken health-care systems,…
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COVID-19: Autoantibodies Can Cause Severe Disease and Deaths
Various studies have revealed that autoantibodies have been a key driver of severe illness and deaths amongst people critically infected with Covid-19. Findings also show that…
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COVID Vaccines and Blood Clots: What Researchers Know So Far
Scientists are trying to understand why a small number of people develop a mysterious clotting disorder after receiving a COVID jab. It was when the second…
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How will Delta Evolve? Here’s What the Theory Tells Us
The COVID-19 pandemic is a dramatic demonstration of evolution in action. Evolutionary theory explains much of what has already happened, predicts what will happen in the…
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China, Russia Stumble on Vaccine ‘Soft Power’
As governments enthusiastically import their vaccines, the public shies away Having developed the world’s first vaccines against Covid-19, both China and Russia have made vaccine diplomacy…
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COVID Vaccine Boosters: The Most Important Questions
Concerns over waning immunity and SARS-CoV-2 variants have convinced some countries to deploy extra vaccine doses — but it’s not clear to scientists whether most people…
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We Shouldn’t be Giving Covid Boosters While Millions Wait for A First Dose
There’s no evidence yet that top-up shots are needed, so let’s help those around the world who urgently need the vaccine Since early 2020, the tragic…
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Masks Are Back, Maybe for the Long Term
Some people can’t help but feel that masking while vaccinated is a regression—especially because this time, there’s no obvious off-ramp. It certainly feels like we’ve been…
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To Mask or Not to Mask? That Shouldn’t Be The Question
England has now entered the strangest phase to date of its Covid experience. Though the health secretary insisted, in a tweet he eventually deleted, that we…