A new study says that climate change “may have played a key role” in triggering the COVID-19 pandemic that has gripped the planet for more than a year now. According to the study, global warming has prompted major changes in the forests of Southeast Asia, resulting in a dramatic expansionread more
There were concerns early in the COVID-19 pandemic that immunity to the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus would be fleeting, due to the rapid decline in antibody levels documented in the months following the recovery of CODID-19 survivors. A new study out of Rockefeller University has confirmed that SARS-CoV-2read more
A team of researchers from the World Health Organization is scheduled to arrive in Wuhan on January 14 to investigate the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, and how the pathogen responsible for the largest pandemic in over a century made the transition from animals to humans. Additionally, the rateread more
A new, faster-spreading variant of the coronavirus has been identified in the United Kingdom, one that appears to be 70 percent more transmissible than the original virus. Although researchers have found no evidence that the new mutation has any impact on the severity of the disease or the chances ofread more