The usual diagnostic tests may simply be too sensitive and too slow to contain the spread of the virus.
Which is too bad because we really need to understand how the immune system reacts to the coronavirus.
Scientists say such tests could be available in a few years, speeding research for treatments and providing a diagnosis for dementia patients who want to know if they have Alzheimer’s disease.
The pathogen is proving a familiar adage: The dose makes the poison.
As catastrophic as it is, the Covid-19 pandemic offers a moment of reflection. If we set our sights high and not throw money at big corporations, perhaps we can emerge from the crisis with an economy and society that are stronger than before.
In the very near future, countries are going to have to choose whether they make guns or vaccines.
Stopping deforestation will tamp down the spread of a long list of vicious diseases that have come from rain forest habitats—Zika, Nipah, malaria, cholera and HIV among them
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COVID-19 is already spreading in many parts of the world where it’s hot, including Australia and South America, demonstrating that high temperatures are not enough to stop the disease
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