>"Leading sexual health expert predicts a gap of almost one month before supplies are replenished"

The Atlantic: Is BA.5 the 'Reinfection Wave'?.

The Guardian: Handle with care: mistakes and near-misses at UK Covid labs. >"A coronavirus-infected ferret bite is among many mishaps _...Read More_

The Guardian: Dangerous incidents at UK laboratories ‘potentially exposed staff to Covid’. >"Official reports _...Read More_

>"Scientists in Thailand have established that a tabby passed SARS-CoV-2 to a veterinary surgeon — although such cases of cat-to-human transmission are probably rare."

>"Nasal or oral coronavirus vaccines, more and better drugs, and a variant-proof vaccine could catalyze a clear way out"

>"The Biden administration is issuing a new warning that the US could potentially see 100 million Covid-19 infections this fall and winter, as officials publicly stress the need for more funding from Congress to prepare the nation."

>"Study shows that infections in very young children doubled during the Omicron wave."

A U.K. patient with a severely weakened immune system had COVID-19 for almost a year and a half, scientists reported, underscoring the _...Read More_

>"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."

The Guardian: Valneva approved to be UK’s sixth Covid vaccine. >"UK medicine regulator says it is first in world to approve Valneva product"

The Guardian: Thousands of ventilators pulled as electrical faults put UK patients’ lives at risk. >"Electrical problem triggers _...Read More_

The Guardian: Covid cases at an all-time high, free testing scrapped... so what will happen now?. >"Analysis: _...Read More_

>"Calls for agency to communicate clearly and transparently after error, corrected last week, inadvertently added deaths to tracker"

"The recently emerged version of the coronavirus called BA.2 that has driven a wave of cases in Europe now accounts for as much as 70 percent of new infections in many parts of the United States, according to an estimate from the genomics _...Read More_