Scientists at UC San Francisco are working on an intriguing intervention that could provide people some Covid-19 protection while the world waits for a vaccine. The group has engineered a synthetic, production-ready molecule that they say “straitjackets the crucial…
98 long-lasting symptoms identified. One characteristic of Covid-19 infections is that in some cases the symptoms can linger in people for a very long time. These self-described “long-haulers”…
In an op-ed, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, the mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone; Bruno Covas, mayor of São Paulo, Brazil; and Eric Garcetti, mayor of Los Angeles, California, write that migrants and refugees are being blamed and harmed in the pandemic. They write:
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There are currently over 150 experimental Covid-19 vaccines in development, and a handful recently entered the final stages of human testing, biotech writer Emily Mullin reports for the blog. But how will…
