New Covid virus found in wild Brazilian bats
The discovery of a 'furin cleavage site' suggests the mutation which helps the virus adapt to humans is naturally occurring.
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Annual COVID Vaccines Protect People against Severe Disease, Even with Prior Immunity
A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.
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Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2
Immunity debt, a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports
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COVID 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting
The COVID-19 pandemic, as best as we can tell, took more than 20 million lives, cost $16 trillion, kept 1.6 billion children out of school, and pushed some 130 million people into poverty. And it’s not over
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Covid Pregnancies May Have Boosted Autism Risk, Study Shows
Exposure to the virus in utero may have affected children’s development, according to a UCLA study, adding to a list of health problems emerging in the wake of the global pandemic.
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Water yum yum, drink it up Context Check: Is Water Fluoridation Safe?
What is the impact of water-based fluoride and its concentration in our water system, especially on children's IQ? Looking at studies and reporting.
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Study finds all N95 masks effective for reducing an ill person's danger to others, especially duckbill masks
"All masks and respirators significantly reduced exhaled viral load, without fit tests or training. A duckbill N95 reduced exhaled viral load by 98% (95% CI: 97%–99%), and significantly outperformed a KN95 (p < 0.001) as well as cloth and surgical masks. Cloth masks outperformed a surgical mask (p = 0.027) and the tested KN95 (p = 0.014)."
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COVID lulls aren't being earned by policy; they're being bought with infections and deaths
"Cases are low right now for one simple reason: most people have recently had COVID. If not during the massive winter JN.1 surge, which infected an estimated 100 million people, then in the previous variant-soup wave of late summer 2023."
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UK scientists find link between proteins related to blood clots and long Covid
Biomarker discovery indicates that sufferers from brain fog and fatigue post-virus could be treated with anticoagulants
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Covid could do for ventilation what cholera did for cleaner water systems
Could better ventilation have prevented covid from becoming a pandemic that killed millions of people?