Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Unchecked COVID-19 spread leads to virus variants
Virus mutations are nothing new. Like most viruses, SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is mutating all the time.
Jan 25, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Some COVID-19 mutations may dampen vaccine effectiveness
Scientists are reporting troubling signs that some recent mutations of the virus that causes COVID-19 may modestly curb the effectiveness of two current vaccines, although they stress that the shots still protect against ...
Jan 21, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
What you need to know about the new COVID-19 variants
Editor's note: Two new strains of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 called B.1.1.7 and B.1.351 have been found in the U.K. and South Africa and are thought to be more transmissible. In this interview, David Kennedy, a ...
Jan 15, 2021
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Medical research
New therapeutic approaches for SARS-CoV-2
Medicine has two things to offer when viral pandemics hit: vaccines and therapeutics. While it is hard to undervalue the noble goal of rapidly developing and rolling out safe vaccines that effectively reduce disease severity, ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
How worried should you be about the new coronavirus variant?
A mutated version of the novel coronavirus has been making the news for being more contagious. First detected in the United Kingdom in September, the variant now has been detected in several U.S. states, including California. ...
Jan 14, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New virus mutation raises vaccine questions
As the British coronavirus variant occupies countries' pandemic plans due to its increased transmissibility, other mutations to the SARS-CoV-2 are provoking concern among scientists who are scrambling to work out if they ...
Jan 13, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
What we know about South Africa's coronavirus variant
A new coronavirus variant discovered by South African scientists is fuelling a surge of infections nationwide and raising global concern.
Jan 12, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study suggests Pfizer vaccine works against virus variant
New research suggests Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine can protect against a mutation found in the two more-contagious variants of the coronavirus that have erupted in Britain and South Africa.
Jan 8, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
What happens when the coronavirus mutates?
New mutations to the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 are emerging, including a more-infectious variant first found in the United Kingdom, even as vaccines containing bits of viral genetic material are beginning distribution. ...
Jan 6, 2021
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Genetics
Coronavirus new variant: Genomics researcher answers key questions
A new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19, is thought to be driving increased transmission of the disease in parts of the UK. The government has placed some regions including London under new, stricter ...
Dec 21, 2020
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