How Bad Is This Winter Going to Be, Exactly?
Photo: Spencer Platt (Shutterstock) The forecast is not looking good. I’m not talking about weather (although climate change is its own crisis). I mean the COVID-19 case numbers. When vaccination…
What You Should Know About the New COVID Travel Rules That Start Today
Photo: PATRICK T. FALLON (Getty Images) If you’re planning an international trip (or if you’re on one right now), it’s time to brush up on the COVID-related regulations, because testing…
What You Need to Know About the Omicron Variant
Photo: Arif biswas (Shutterstock) Omicron is the latest variant of the virus that causes COVID-19. Like Delta, it’s been designated by the World Health Organization as a “Variant of Concern”…
Scientists Identify Post-Infection Treatment For Covid: Study
The virologists are continuing to develop improved inhibitors using various methods. (File)Washington: Scientists have identified a post-infection treatment for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and successfully demonstrated its efficacy…
How Worried Should We Be About the Delta Variant?
Image: Lightspring (Shutterstock) The virus that causes COVID-19 has been a successful one from an evolutionary perspective, getting to see the world and expanding its little family tree. (Its been…
How Bad Are All These New COVID Variants?
Photo: vchal (Shutterstock) Viruses mutate; so does everything, really. But experts are now concerned about a few of the thousands of coronavirus variants that have turned up around the world.…
When will there be a cure for covid? The body is still the best virus-killer
In humanity’s millennia-long struggle against viruses, prevention with vaccines has been far more successful than treatment with drugs. In fact, modern medicine has come up with a true cure for…
Coronavirus family tree reveals the virus is hardly mutating
By Graham Lawton A family tree of the new coronavirus reveals it is mutating very slowlyKiyoshi Takahase Segundo / Alamy Like any other biological entity, Sars-CoV-2 has a family tree.…
Salmon may harbor infectious coronavirus for a week, say scientists
Coronavirus lingering on chilled salmon may be infectious for more than a week, according to researchers in China, where imported fish have been investigated as a potential source of infections.…
Covid-19 patients may have prolonged stomach infection: Scientists
Covid-19 patients have active and prolonged gut viral infection, even in the absence of gastrointestinal symptoms, scientists in Hong Kong showed. The coronavirus may continue to infect and replicate in…