>"Inside a global hunt to identify and stop mutations that might lead to more lethal variants."

>"In South Africa, a network of researchers are studying whether new lineages BA.4 and BA.5 escape immunity from COVID-19 vaccines and prior infections."

>"Two doses of COVID vaccine cut the risk of infection and mild illness from the rising BA.2 subvariant, although protection wanes quickly."

"Ah, ivermectin. Before the pandemic, if you’d asked whether I was going to be spending much of my life writing about a drug mostly used to control endemic parasitic disease in Africa, I would’ve just…"

“BA.2 is considered a “stealthier” version of Omicron because particular genetic traits make it somewhat harder to detect.”

The 95-year-old British monarch was “experiencing mild coldlike symptoms,” Buckingham Palace said. She recently met with her son Prince Charles, who had tested positive this _...Read More_

Even the Queen has COVID — Just goes to show you that COVID doesn’t care who you are. Wishing the Queen a quick recovery, and hoping that this converts some COVID deniers into believing that COVID is real.

"Booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines lose substantial effectiveness after about four months — but still provided significant protection in keeping people out of the hospital during the omicron surge, according to a _...Read More_

>"More than ten billion doses have gone into arms in a remarkably short period of time — but scientists warn that woeful inequities in access remain."

"Pfizer and BioNTech in mid-December announced that two doses of the vaccine, given at a tenth of the amount of an adult dosing, did not produce a strong enough immune response in children ages 2 to 4."

Pfizer and BioNTech are expected to submit to the FDA a request for emergency use authorization, people briefed on the situation said.

The US is expected to approve coronavirus vaccines for children under the age of five by the end of February.