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Classical antibiotics that directly kill pathogens are prone to elicit drug-resistance. Targeting host enzymes required for pathogen survival offers can limit the emergence of resistance.
Moderna will ask the FDA to allow emergency use for its vaccine in children as young as 6 months, a step many parents have been anticipating.
Evusheld is an antibody drug from AstraZeneca intended to help prevent COVID-19 infection for immunocompromised and other vulnerable patients.
The latest addition to the omicron lineage has been making waves in Europe. Whether it will do the same in the U.S. depends on rates of vaccination and prior infection.
It feels like everyone around you has or is recovering from COVID. Maybe you’re fatigued and wondering if it’s an after-effect? Antibody tests could confirm it one way or another.
A robust body of research finds that getting vaccinated against COVID-19 during pregnancy is safe and effective – and the best way to protect both mother and child from the risks of COVID-19.
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought immunology terms that are typically relegated to textbooks into our everyday vernacular. These stories helped us make sense of the ever-evolving science.
COVID cases are predicted to rise as we face another variant. So a 4th shot to top up our immunity is looking more likely as we head into winter.
A highlight of this pandemic is how quickly effective vaccines were developed and rolled out.
It’s a huge cause for concern that, two years into the pandemic, the disparities and unequal power structures in global health are still intact.
3D printers got a lot of attention when DIYers leapt to action to address equipment shortages early in the pandemic, but some everyday items found in hardware stores played a big role, too.
Before COVID-19, clean water, antibiotics and vaccines had made us complacent about infectious disease. Infection control can no longer be taken for granted. We must be prepared for future pandemics.
The fear that SARS-CoV-2 will evolve in animals and then spread back to us in a more virulent form is unfounded.
In 2020 TB case detection fell by almost 20% and mortality rose for the first time in a decade. These setbacks are directly attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The delay in finding definitive answers to how novel infectious diseases come about is not unusual. Look at what happened to our search for Ebola virus.
Risky life-science projects need global governance. Unfortunately, current standards and practices are not up to the task.
These new antivirals are another way of managing COVID-19. But they’re not a panacea, and could even makes things worse.
Social scientists find that using geography-related names or racialized framing around the coronavirus in even one news story can trigger racist stereotypes and biases.
One of the consequences of the failure of developing countries like South Africa to authorise self-testing is that it is driving a thriving black market.
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Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Research associate, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Brown University
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University
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Instructor of Human Immunology, Emory University
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Virologist, Queen's University Belfast
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Research Fellow in Virology, University of Leeds
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Research Leader in Virology and Infectious Disease, Griffith University
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Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado Boulder
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Virology and Immunology, University of Colorado Boulder
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Virology, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Epidemiology Healthcare Infection and Infectious Diseases Control, UNSW Sydney
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Dean Faculty of Natural Sciences and Professor, University of the Western Cape
