Coronavirus: From R to lifting lockdown
…that is the rate of increase or decrease in the rate of COVID-19 infection. Above one, the spread of COVID-19 is going to accelerate. Under one, the pandemic will decelerate….
Coronavirus: Ending the pandemic
…the body’s immune system to fight COVID-19. China’s CanSino Biologics has launched small trials of COVID-19 vaccine based on a safe version of an adenovirus-5 – another virus that can…
Coronavirus: a revolutionary vaccine
…immune activation. I’d rather have an evening of flu-like symptoms than COVID-19, right? Will an RNA vaccine work against new strains of COVID-19? RS: In terms of SARS-CoV-2 mutations, we…
COVID-19: Pandemic Art with Grayson Perry
The Grayson Perry artwork Alan Measles – God in the time of Covid-19 – will go on display today in Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries, the largest of their kind in…
Coronavirus: how the virus works
A detailed look inside SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, comes from Yorgo Modis of the University of Cambridge, who works at the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology,…
Coronavirus: are we back to normal?
The Omicron variant of the virus that causes COVID19, SARS-CoV-2, is called BA.2 and now represents nearly 86% of all cases of COVID that have been genetically tested, according to…
COVID-19: How the virus spreads among vaccinated people
…COVID-19 Transmission (INSTINCT) study of newly diagnosed cases and their contacts in their homes. In addition, there was ATACCC (Assessment of Transmission And Contagiousness of Covid19 Contacts) and ATACCC 2…
COVID-19: Rise of the Delta variant
COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective at preventing severe disease and death. But they are not 100% effective, and some fully vaccinated people will become infected, experience illness and pass on…
How to beat the next pandemic in just 100 days
…case of COVID-19, and global early-warning systems. A visitor looks at a vial of COVID-19 vaccine in Injecting Hope: The race for a COVID-19 vaccine The faster safe and effective…
Coronavirus: how the UK backed vaccine winners
The UK is now among the nations leading the way with COVID-19 vaccination. Last week, the Government announced that all UK adults would be offered their first dose of coronavirus…
COVID-19: Pandemic Art with Angela Palmer and David Goodsell
…protein myoglobin (though some, unkindly, refer to it as the ‘dog poo’ model). But COVID-19 is exceptional. As Geoff Belknap, Head Curator at the National Science and Media Museum, and…
Coronavirus: Trials of the Oxford vaccine
The UK has become the first country in the west to approve a COVID-19 vaccine, the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which has an efficacy of around 95 per cent, similar to another…