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The world needs a single naming system for coronavirus variants

Geographic associations risk stigma. Researchers must quickly agree on a more meaningful and universal nomenclature. Earlier this month, the World Health Organization (WHO) convened a meeting at which, among other...

20 January, 2021

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How to fight back against coronavirus vaccine phobia

The world is soon likely to confront a serious new challenge to the fight against Covid-19: vaccine hesitancy. In the U.S. and U.K., large numbers of people — at least 30 percent — have said in recent surveys that they...

21 September, 2020

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Covid-19 will be just ‘one of many’ new infectious diseases spilling over from animals to humans

Three-quarters of emerging illnesses come from animals and a new report identifies climate change as a primary driver of many of them. As the new coronavirus continues to turn the world upside down, crashing economies...

27 August, 2020

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Preparing pandemic vaccine capacity

Rapid scale-up to billions of doses requires collaborative, all-out efforts by innovators, their manufacturing partners, and the entire supply chain. The biopharmaceutical industry is working at unprecedented speed to...

19 August, 2020

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America’s obesity epidemic threatens effectiveness of any COVID vaccine

For a world crippled by the coronavirus, salvation hinges on a vaccine. But in the United States, where at least 4.6 million people have been infected and nearly 155,000 have died, the promise of that vaccine is...

7 August, 2020

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For survivors of severe COVID-19, beating the virus is just the beginning

The next few months will be full of grim updates about the spread of the new coronavirus, but they will also be full of homecomings. Patients hospitalized with severe COVID-19, some having spent weeks breathing with the...

15 April, 2020

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Coronavirus infection could be blocked by an engineered virus

No vaccines exist that protect people against infections by coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, or the ones that cause SARS and MERS. As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc, many labs around the...

9 April, 2020

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Coronavirus origins: genome analysis suggests two viruses may have combined

In the space of a few weeks, we have all learned a lot about COVID-19 and the virus that causes it: SARS-CoV-2. But there have also been a lot of rumors. And while the number of scientific articles on this virus is...

31 March, 2020

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Coronavirus vaccine: Zydus, Serum Institute among 43 global firms in race

While the whole world is battling a pandemic of unprecedented proportions, 43 pharmaceutical and biotech companies worldwide have launched their biggest ever research and development initiative to find the vaccine that...

30 March, 2020

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Singapore scientists study genes to fast-track coronavirus vaccine

Scientists in Singapore say they have developed a way to track genetic changes that speeds testing of vaccines against a coronavirus that has killed more than 16,000 people worldwide. The scientists, at the city...

24 March, 2020

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