Featured COVID Headlines Tracking coronavirus in animals takes on new urgency – Washington Post Inside the global hunt to identify mutations that might lead to more lethal variants. Researchers Sarah Hamer and Lisa Auckland donned their masks and gowns as…
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Tulane Outbreak – June 24, 2022
Featured COVID Headlines Long COVID risk lower with Omicron than Delta, study finds – Medical News Today New research has compared the risk of getting long COVID from two different SARS-CoV-2 variants, the virus that causes COVID-19. Researchers from King’s…
Tulane Outbreak – June 17, 2022
Featured COVID Headlines Implications of the emergence and spread of the SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern BA.4 and BA.5 for the EU/EEA – ECDC Most European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) countries have detected low proportions of the SARS-CoV-2 variants BA.4 and…
Tulane Outbreak – June 14, 2022
Featured COVID Headlines Covid is making flu and other common viruses act in unfamiliar ways – Washington Post At one point last month, children were admitted to Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital with a startling range of seven respiratory viruses.…
Tulane Outbreak – June 10, 2022
Featured COVID Headlines Breakthrough COVID-19 cases, deaths on the rise amid push for boosters: ABC News analysis In the early months of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, breakthrough cases among fully-vaccinated people were a statistical anomaly. Preliminary clinical trial data offered an…
Tulane Outbreak – June 7, 2022
Featured COVID Headlines Omicron BA.4 and BA.5: Starting From Scratch Yet Again – MedPageToday Coronaviruses are single-stranded RNA viruses with large genomes and, until recently, consisted of the mild 229E, OC43, L69, and H53U1 strains, and the “novel” SARS and…
Tulane Outbreak – June 3, 2022
Featured COVID Headlines Why boosted Americans seem to be getting more COVID-19 infections – CBS News As COVID-19 cases began to accelerate again this spring, federal data suggests the rate of breakthrough COVID infections in April was worse in boosted Americans compared…
Tulane Outbreak – June 1, 2022
Featured COVID Headlines How to Think About Personal Risk When COVID Case Data Can’t Be Trusted – The Atlantic The numbers do still have some use, even if they’re less illuminating than before. Coronavirus cases are up more than 25 percent…
Tulane Outbreak – May 27, 2022
Featured COVID Headlines Dominant coronavirus mutant contains ghost of pandemic past – AP The coronavirus mutant that is now dominant in the United States is a member of the omicron family but scientists say it spreads faster than its omicron…
Tulane Outbreak – May 24, 2022
Featured COVID Headlines Will the Coronavirus Pandemic Ever End? – The New Yorker If Americans decide too soon that it is over, it could paradoxically drag on even longer. Twenty-seven months into the covid-19 pandemic, our defenses against the coronavirus seem…