Why Didn’t SARS Kill Like Today’s Coronavirus Pandemic?
Severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, is a closely related virus to the coronavirus that’s responsible for the current global pandemic. In fact, the RNA genomes of the two viruses are about 80...
View ArticleCould Coronavirus Save the World from a Rough Flu Season?
For the past couple of months, health officials and doctors have been warning about the quickly approaching flu season, saying that a devastating one-two punch of the seasonal virus plus the...
View ArticleNew Study Warns That the Coronavirus Could Become Seasonal Virus
Each year, many countries around the world prepare for the seasonal patterns of respiratory viruses, with some people even taking the extra precaution to get an annual flu shot.Given how billions of...
View ArticleThe Great Coronavirus Mutation Has Begun
The novel coronavirus has mutated from its original strain and is now considered more infectious, according to researchers from Houston Methodist Hospital.The study, which has not been peer-reviewed...
View ArticleCoronavirus Will Become ‘Endemic’ as Seasonal Flu: UK Scientist
Even if a viable vaccine becomes available to much of the world’s population, the novel coronavirus will likely become as “endemic” as the seasonal flu virus, according to Patrick Vallance, the United...
View Article3 Billion People Could Struggle to Get Coronavirus Vaccine
Roughly three billion people worldwide might miss out on potentially life-saving coronavirus vaccines because there aren’t enough cold storage facilities. Many vaccines need to be stored in...
View ArticleSouth Korea Discovers No Evidence of Flu Vaccine’s Role in Reported Deaths
Despite fifty-nine people reportedly dying after receiving a flu shot in South Korea, health officials there say the vaccinations will continue as scheduled because no link was found between the...
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Why is Resistance Common in Antibiotics, but Rare in Vaccines?
Antibiotic resistance is a worldwide problem to the extent that there is a grave risk that common infections will soon become untreatable. Meanwhile, vaccines developed nearly a century ago still...
View ArticleWhy an Universal Influenza Vaccine May be One Step Closer
A bad year for flu can mean tens of thousands of deaths in the U.S. Getting vaccinated can protect you from influenza, but you have to get the shot every year to catch up with the changing virus and to...
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Why are Control Measures Stopping the Flu and Not Coronavirus?
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages, other respiratory illnesses have been unusually quiet this year. Fears of a dangerous influenza and COVID-19 “syndemic” have not come to pass as influenza cases reached...
View ArticleDid Coronavirus Wipe Out the Flu Season?
The Centers For Disease Control (CDC) said last week that, as of the end of January, there were 1,316 positive flu cases since September. That’s compared to 129,997 positive cases of the flu the year...
View ArticleWill the Delta Variant Stall the U.S. Economy?
/sites/default/files/styles/resize-1440/public/main_images/Fauci_3.jpg?itok=CrqhBY6PTopic: CoronavirusThough the rise in new infections is troubling, it would need to go a lot further than it has...
View ArticleExpert: A Fifth Coronavirus Wave Is More Than Possible
Recent data indicate that new coronavirus infections in the United States have plunged nearly sixty percent since the September spike that was brought on by the highly contagious Delta variant.However,...
View ArticleWhite House: Most Americans Will Only Need Annual Coronavirus Booster
The Biden administration on Tuesday said that vaccine-weary Americans can expect to get annual updates to the coronavirus shot just like they do for the flu vaccine, according to STAT.“This week, we...
View ArticleNew Study Warns That the Coronavirus Could Become Seasonal Virus
Each year, many countries around the world prepare for the seasonal patterns of respiratory viruses, with some people even taking the extra precaution to get an annual flu shot.Given how billions of...
View ArticleThe Great Coronavirus Mutation Has Begun
The novel coronavirus has mutated from its original strain and is now considered more infectious, according to researchers from Houston Methodist Hospital.The study, which has not been peer-reviewed...
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