Tag: SARS-CoV-2

Who should get the new mRNA vaccines? Are they safe and effective?

Even taking into account people who have had COVID but didn’t know it, there’s still likely to be a group of people who have never been infected.

At the end of the day, we have to maintain optimism and keep up hope, persevere with what has to be done to not only survive but live

Dr R Neerunjun Gopee

Instead of merry Christmas, it is perhaps more in order to wish a prayerful Christmas, a prayer for peace and calm, for comfort and solace to those in

Omicron may not be the final variant, but it may be the final variant of concern

We have probably not seen the last of the mutations and variants of the Covid-19 virus. Perhaps the world got a lucky break with Omicron. Perhaps not

How we should manage uncertainty is not a scientific issue but an ethical issue

A virus evolution expert explains what researchers know and what they don’t

By Adam Hamdy

The world needs to learn to live with the virus. And governments must follow the science and don’t distort it for political expediency

An infectious disease physician explains why these options are badly needed  Merck and Pfizer both have oral antiviral pills under review by the FDA. Such treatments could help

There is much for us to learn from the Indian experience. India can ‘show the world how to tackle endemic Covid-19.’ What are we waiting for?

The two types of tests – antigen and PCR – work in very different ways, which is why one is fast but less accurate and the other is

recovering from the acute infection does not mean that the patient is completely rid of Covid impact. As Long Covid, it leaves its signature in subtle ways A