Cynthia in Rockport asks, "Do rapid home antigen tests pick up the new variants?" Rapid home antigen tests are still quite accurate but they may give a false negative result if used too early in the infection, so if you think you may have COVID, continue to test for...
AI models require vast amounts of data to be able to predict viral evolution. The mass sequencing of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has made this possible, says Jumpei Ito, a bioinformatician at the University of Tokyo. Researchers now have close to 17 million sequences they...
The emergence of new and more infectious COVID-19 variants has led health experts to consider "double masking" as a potential way to better protect yourself and those around you. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating whether donning a medical mask underneath a t...
New vaccine formulations that target dominant SARS-CoV-2 variants are regularly released, with the vaccination schedule reflecting this. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), everyone should receive at least 1 dose of the most updated COVID-19 vaccine (based on...
As the vaccines for COVID-19 continue to roll out and tens of millions more doses get into tens of millions more arms, I’m coming to the reluctant conclusion that I could, if I so desired, do nothing but blog about the antivaccine misinformation about these p...
tests to evaluate your "viral pool." When you have HIV, you do not have just one virus but rather a multitude of variants, some of which are drug-resistant. Under the pressure of antiretroviral therapy, the viral pool can change with drug-resistant variants becoming more and more ...
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New smell therapies for Covid survivors are in the offing. Smell training might prompt the recovery of old signaling. Nasal steroid sprays, and jabs of platelet-rich blood plasma straight to the nose, could speed cellular healing. Market researchers have noticed that the public has lately been ...
By sheer luck, certain existing PCR tests can detect the British variant. Fontanet therefore advocated "extremely aggressive surveillance" through widespread testing. "We need to be even more vigilant in our prevention measures to slow the spread of COVID-19 by wearing masks, staying at least si...
Heading into summer 2024, COVID-19 numbers are still low after a major winter surge. But experts have seen some new variants emerge that indicate we may see a small uptick in cases, TODAY.com explained previously. While that winter spike was driven mainly but the omicron JN.1 variant, a...