Coronavirus: How the virus spread worldwide
…than 20,000 viral genomes from positive COVID-19 cases had been sequenced in the UK, which is the largest number of COVID-19 genomes sequenced by any single country affected by the…
COVID-19: Preparing for the Next Pandemic
…response to COVID-19, creating the world’s largest portfolio of COVID-19 vaccines and aspiring to make two billion doses accessible to the 190+ economies participating in COVAX. But COVAX has faced…
Coronavirus: the new normal
…masks has slowed down the spread of COVID-19, according to one article: ‘Consider a region in which the number of COVID-19 cases increased by 10% from one day to another….
Coronavirus: RNA to the rescue
…empty vial and syringe from Margaret’s historic immunisation is now part of the Science Museum Group Collection, a highlight of our COVID-19 Collecting project. The first vial of COVID vaccine…
COVID-19: Towards a Clean Air Revolution
…insights into the mechanism of how COVID-19 spread. We now know mask wearing is among a number of public health measures that can cut the incidence of COVID-19, by around…
Coronavirus: should we infect young people with COVID-19?
…18 and 30, with no previous history or symptoms of COVID-19, no underlying health conditions, and no known adverse risk factors for COVID-19, such as heart disease, diabetes or obesity….
Coronavirus: The Moth Vaccine
A technology that is used to manufacture a seasonal influenza vaccine is being adapted to create another kind of COVID-19 vaccine, one based on virus protein. All vaccines work the…
Coronavirus: Rise of the mutants
…Virus Research (CVR), where a wide range of studies on COVID-19 are carried out, and includes a £2.5 million science hub – Crush (Covid-19 Drug-Screening and Resistance Hub)- to investigate…
Coronavirus: Rise of mini-organs
…the long-term health impacts of COVID-19 on 10,000 hospitalised patients has been launched in Leicester, while a major online survey of how COVID-19 affects cognition is underway by Adrian Owen,…
Coronavirus: Vaccinating the World
…other COVID-19 vaccines at an earlier stage of development, which consists of part of the COVID-19 spike protein – the receptor binding domain, RBD – delivered as a virus-like particle…
Coronavirus: The one-shot vaccine
Johnson & Johnson, J&J, has shown the safety and efficacy of a single shot COVID-19 vaccine tested on 43,783 participants, demonstrating protection against COVID-related disease, hospitalization and death 28 days…
COVID-19: Beyond Omicron to the Next Pandemic
…vaccine capacity that we will build up, both in terms of manufacturing and other things, gets lost post COVID. Thanks to the new vaccine platforms developed for COVID we have…