New Study Shows Coronavirus Antibodies Last at Least Three Months After Infection
Coronavirus antibodies can last at least three months after a person becomes infected with the virus that causes COVID-19, according ...
Tag: Pandemic
Where in the World Will the Next Epidemic Start?
Viruses jumping from animals to humans have been the starting point of numerous outbreaks, from Ebola to Zika. Given the ...
How COVID-19 Took Hold in North America and Europe
It was nearly 10 months ago on January 15 that a traveler returned home to the Seattle area after visiting ...
Scent of a Virus: NIH Seeks Novel Tech to Detect COVID-19 From Skin Odors
The National Institutes of Health is fast-tracking funding for development of novel, non-traditional approaches to identify the current SARS-CoV-2 virus ...
Vaccine Approval Is Just The Beginning – Huge Production Challenges Await
The race for a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine is well underway. It’s tempting to assume that once the first vaccine is approved ...
Politics Slows Flow of US Pandemic Relief Funds to Public Health Agencies
As the coronavirus began to spread through Minneapolis this spring, Health Commissioner Gretchen Musicant tore up her budget to find ...
Speed vs. Accuracy: Rapid Screening Tests Could Be Key to Ending the Pandemic
Broad access to testing is one of the most powerful tools to keep the COVID-19 pandemic under control until there’s ...
Disinformation Campaigns: Lessons from the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has spawned an infodemic, a vast and complicated mix of information, misinformation and disinformation. In this environment, ...
Lessons for COVID-19 Pandemic from the Massive Public Health Effort to Eradicate Smallpox
Smallpox was a terrible scourge on humanity, killing hundreds of millions of people over the centuries. But its origin remains ...
The Next Once-a-century Pandemic is Coming Sooner Than You Think – But COVID-19 Can Help Us Get Ready
COVID-19 is being referred to as a “once in a century event” – but the next pandemic is likely to ...
The World Health Organization as Pandemic Police?
Rarely is the head of an international organisation, let alone one with a technical mandate, prominent in the world’s media. ...
AstraZeneca Teams with Oxford Biomedica to Shore Up COVID-19 Vaccine Manufacturing Capacity
Early manufacturing and scale up of viral vector based candidate for COVID-19 AstraZeneca and Oxford Biomedica this week announced a ...
GSK Announces Plans to Produce 1 Billion Doses of Pandemic Vaccine Adjuvant in 2021
Given the unprecedented need to develop COVID-19 vaccines, GSK has started manufacture of the adjuvant at risk. The company is ...
K-State Infectious Disease Scientist Offers Road Map for Future COVID-19 Research
Researcher investigates potential therapeutic options at Biosecurity Research Institute There are many unanswered questions about COVID-19. A Kansas State University ...
Coronavirus Pandemic Bond Payouts Likely to Be Held Up By Fine Print
Investors are looking at big losses in two “pandemic bonds,” issued by the World Bank’s International Bank for Reconstruction and Development ...
Why Are There So Few COVID-19 Cases in Russia and Africa?
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began in Wuhan, China in December 2019, we have seen the virus spread to over 160 ...
Caught Flat-Footed: How the U.S. Can Now Rally a Response Against Coronavirus
It’s always been a question of when, and not whether, humanity would face another challenge on the scale of the ...
NASA Enacts Stage 2 Pandemic Response Posture
NASA leadership announced on Mar. 14 enactment of Stage 2 of the agency's Response Framework for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) ...
U.S. Ebola Treatment Center Costs and Sustainability if Federal Funding Withdrawn
In 2014, a tiered network of facilities to manage patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD) was established in the United ...
Facing the Hard Facts of This Unfolding Pandemic
In a world ill-prepared for a potentially life-threatening, easily transmitted disease like COVID-19, the most effective way to mitigate the ...
