A rough winter awaits. Did we relax our vigilance too soon? Eric Topol started off his latest article, “The new COVID wave”, stating “Things are once again going in the wrong direction in the United States.” (What else is new?) Walk into a...
What’s a potential medical breakthrough without a little controversy? Resia Pretorius Ph.D., a South African researcher from the Stellenbosch University in South Africa, and her colleague Douglas Kell from the University of Liverpool, UK, are right in the thick...
Suzanne Vernon’s interest in pathogens and post-infectious diseases goes back to when, as a 20-year-old, she landed a work-study job at the CDC’s Division of Vector-Borne Diseases while an undergraduate at Colorado State University. Ten years later with...
It’s nice to have a billionaire in your corner. Earlier this year, billionaire Vitalik Buterin pledged to devote $100 million to high-risk, high-reward COVID-19 efforts. He made good on at least $15 million of that when he jumpstarted The Long COVID...
The BA.5 Omicron Subvariant: The Worst Coronavirus Yet? Variants of Concern Many variants of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus have been found, but since the Delta variant showed up in Oct 2020, only six have been considered “variants of concern”. Today, only...
One of the first questions that could be answered regarding long COVID quite quickly is why it’s happening. Why did one person not recover when so many others did? That question has bedeviled many people with chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), post-infectious...