Listen: A History of Pandemic Xenophobia and Racism
White: That’s exactly right. And you have to remember that the understanding of disease in the 14th century was very different from what we have now. There wasn’t an understanding…
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A Massive Global Hunt for Variants Is Under Way
Without sequencing, we might have seen mysterious new surges or reinfections, only to speculate wildly and retrospectively about why; now scientists can trace these epidemiological trends to letter-by-letter changes in…
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The Virus Is Evolving. But So Are Your Antibodies.
In epic tales of the immune system, B cells and their antibodies tend to hog the limelight. Antibodies, which are proteins that drift through the blood, are easy to capture…
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COVID-19 Vaccines Might Never Get Us to Herd Immunity
While COVID-19 vaccines are very good—even unexpectedly good—at preventing disease, they are still unlikely to be good enough against transmission of the virus, which is key to herd immunity. On…
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Johnson & Johnson: Why Less-Effective Vaccines Are Valuable
But beneath these top-line numbers is a consistent pattern: All of the vaccines are very good at preventing severe illness and death from COVID-19. That was the original goal for…
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What the Coronavirus’ Mutations Will Mean
The role of each individual mutation is still unclear, but a particular mutation in the spike protein called N501Y is noteworthy because all three variants have it. The spike protein…
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Listen: Coronavirus Mutations – The Atlantic
Vineet Menachery: The quickest answer at this point is: We don’t know yet. The mutations that we think about are twofold: There are mutations that allow the virus to replicate…
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