All About COVID-19

Chronicling the impact ~ Edited by Ruth Nasrullah
Category: Science

All About COVID Variants: Is it all Greek to you?

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have experienced the impacts of variants – not just Delta and Omicron, the best known, but others that had less influence on the disease’s severity or spread. So what is a variant anyway? Over time, SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, undergoes genetic changes, which is expected…

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Health Officials See Bright Future in Poop Surveillance

During the winter surge caused by omicron, California, Colorado, New York, and Texas first detected the variant via sewage.

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Heading Off the Next Pandemic

As the covid-19 pandemic heads for a showdown with vaccines it’s expected to lose, many experts in the field of emerging infectious diseases are already focused on preventing the next one.

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