A new, highly-transmissible variant of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 has been circulating in the United States, and is outcompeting other subvariants to take up a larger proportion of detected COVID-19 caseloads. Medical experts are also bristling at the unofficial nickname ‘The Kraken’ being applied to this subvariant,read more
The spread of COVID-19 in mainland China has become “impossible” to track, according to the country’s top health authority, with case numbers rising precipitously since the end of October, prompting local health authorities to abandon their recording of asymptomatic cases as part of their daily counts. This new wave ofread more
It turns out that although contracting COVID-19 will increase an individual’s immunity against future infections of the pandemic-causing coronavirus, repeat infections appear to increase the chances of developing serious complications associated with the disease, such as long-term heart, lung or neurological issues, and even death. This is important to keepread more
On October 17 the UK’s the Daily Mail published an alarming article outlining a study conducted at Boston University involving a gain-of-function experiment on the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 that resulted in a pathogen so deadly that it boasted an “80% kill rate in mice” and “could spark a lab-generated pandemic.” Theread more