Manchester Journal52m
'We're all still recovering and growing': Looking back at the COVID-19 pandemic 5 years later
The pandemic hit Manchester much like it did elsewhere in the country, and across the world - suddenly and shockingly, ...
Organically Human on MSN1h
How China's 'Bat Woman' Hunted Down Viruses from SARS to the New Coronavirus
Shi Zhengli, a leading virologist, became known as “Bat Woman” for her work on coronaviruses. She has spent decades studying ...
Scientific American3h
The Next Flu Pandemic Could Be Worse Than Covid If We Don't Heed History
COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.
Five years after the pandemic, the world is poorly prepared for another one
In Europe, ten people died from measles in 2024, and the US has had several major outbreaks. Bird flu has affected dairy ...
KPBS1d
COVID is still evolving and will find new ways to evade immune systems, scientists say
SARS-CoV-2 has been evolving the ability to evade the immune system about twice as fast as the fastest-evolving flu virus. It ...
WPRL1d
5 years into the pandemic, the COVID-19 virus keeps changing
The virus that causes COVID-19 continues to mutate. Scientists say that's likely to continue indefinitely, and the virus will ...
Five years of COVID-19 underscore value of coordinated efforts to manage disease
Five years ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of COVID-19 a global pandemic. The ...
5 years of COVID-19 shows need for coordination as CDC, NIH, WHO face threats
While public opinions of the CDC and the WHO shifted throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, recent survey results indicate that ...
eLife2d
Parallel HIV-1 fitness landscapes shape viral dynamics in humans and macaques that develop broadly neutralizing antibodies
An effective HIV-1 vaccine must therefore elicit antibodies that can neutralize many variants of the virus. While broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) have been isolated from HIV-1 infected ...
Physician's Weekly7d
Virologic Suppression and Care Continuity With Telemedicine
The following is a summary of “Telemedicine virologic and immunologic outcomes in people living with HIV (PLWH) in a ...
Predicting SARS-CoV-2 variant infectivity with biophysical principles
When the COVID-19 pandemic first began, we saw how quickly the SARS-CoV-2 virus evolved. New variants emerged with mutations ...
eLife13d
Secondary structure of the SARS-CoV-2 genome is predictive of nucleotide substitution frequency
SARS-CoV-2 secondary structure shapes mutation frequencies, constraining viral evolution models predicting fitness can benefit from integrating secondary structure data.