How Good Is the AstraZeneca Vaccine – And Is It Really Safe?
Over the past few months, there have been concerns over how effective and how safe the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine really ...
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People Gave Up on Flu Pandemic Measures a Century Ago When They Tired of Them – and Paid a Price
Picture the United States struggling to deal with a deadly pandemic. State and local officials enact a slate of social-distancing ...
How Effective is the First Shot of the Pfizer or Moderna Vaccine?
As the COVID-19 vaccines reach more people across the country, some people have asked: Could we delay the second dose ...
Two Gaps to Fill for the 2021-2022 Winter Wave of COVID-19 Cases
Epidemiologists – like oncologists and climate scientists – hate to be proven right. A year ago this week, the communications ...
EV-D68: Epidemiological Model Links Spread of Respiratory Virus to a Rare, Paralyzing Disease
Harnessing a predictive algorithm, Sang Woo Park and colleagues have mapped out new trends in the incidence of the respiratory ...
Factors Influencing Health Care Workers’ Willingness to Respond to Duty During Outbreaks and Bioterrorist Event
Health care workers are perhaps the most important asset in an infectious disease emergency, yet these individuals have their own ...
Applying Lessons from Annual Flu Vaccine Strain Selection to COVID Variants
While the future of the pandemic remains uncertain, we’ll probably have to live with COVID-19 for some time. We face ...
Novel Coronavirus Circulated Undetected Months Before First Cases in Wuhan, China
Using molecular dating tools and epidemiological simulations, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues at ...
Sounding the Alarm on Resistant Strains of Staph Spreading Between Pigs Raised on Factory Farms
DNA sequencing of bacteria found in pigs and humans in rural eastern North Carolina, an area with concentrated industrial-scale pig-farming, ...
mRNA Treatment Shows Promise for Stopping Flu and COVID-19 Viruses
With a relatively minor genetic change, a new treatment developed by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory ...
How Health Care Systems Might Better Manage Multiple Natural Disaster, Outbreak Surges
Health care systems could save lives and minimize losses under multiple disasters and waves of COVID-19 by optimizing resource allocation ...
NBACC: Past Bioagent Research Informs Current and Future Pandemic Response
Like many U.S. research and development agencies, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) was forced to shift ...
Why We’ll Get COVID Booster Vaccines Quickly and How We Know They’re Safe
The United States’ drug regulator, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), said last week COVID vaccines updated for variants won’t ...
Study Could Explain Tuberculosis Bacteria Paradox
Latent TB is an enormous global problem. While TB kills about 1.5 million people each year, the World Health Organization ...
Special CBRN Plume Modeling Team Supported Biden Inauguration Security
When seconds matter, speed saves lives. That’s why Adam Moses, a U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) computer scientist, was part ...
Sewage-Handling Robots Help Predict COVID-19 Outbreaks in San Diego
In earlier days of the COVID-19 pandemic, before diagnostic testing was widely available, it was difficult for public health officials ...
Confusion Reigns About Nigeria’s Distribution Plan for Its First Batch of COVID-19 Vaccines
Nigeria has started to vaccinate people after receiving its first batch of COVID-19 vaccines. Virologist and senior research fellow Dr ...
What Happens When a Person Is Simultaneously Infected with Two Different SARS-CoV-2 Variants?
Scientists in Brazil recently reported that two people were simultaneously infected with two different variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that ...
OSU’s New Vaccine Candidate for COVID-19 Capitalizes on Measles Vaccine’s Successful History
A new SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate, developed by giving a key protein’s gene a ride into the body while encased in ...
NIH Effort Seeks to Understand MIS-C, Range of SARS-CoV-2 Effects on Children
The National Institutes of Health has launched a new research effort to understand how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, ...
