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…
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.
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.