Herewith three items of pandemic news you may have missed recently: Pfizer’s vaccine handles the UK variant just fine; how to go about producing a vaccine-evading coronavirus; and Biden will not hold back second doses. Plus the accustomed frippery. Biden … Continue reading →
Herewith three items of pandemic news: the UK variant seems to spread faster in the young; what’s next in vaccines (by new contributor Doug Pardee); and the import of the PCR test cycle threshold. Plus the accustomed frippery. Cycle threshold … Continue reading →
In England and in South Africa, researchers are warning about new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that are spreading rapidly in those countries. Both involve an unusually high number of mutations, including to the spike protein. For this story, which … Continue reading →
Denmark is killing 15-17 million farmed mink, and an entire industry, because a strain of SARS-CoV-2 spreading among them — and in humans — shows worrisome mutations that may portend trouble for most vaccines currently under development. Mink are highly … Continue reading →
