Category: Convergent

Is Sars-CoV-2 already targeting the vaccinated?

Will future variants of Sars-Cov-2 tailor themselves to target the vaccinated?  Given that up to 90% of the population of some countries are now fully vaccinated, the question should perhaps be: Why would Sars-CoV-2 NOT target the vaccinated? … ...More...

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Shi Zhengli: We need to learn to live with the virus

Shi Zhengli, China’s ‘Bat Woman’, has said that new variants of Sars-Cov-2 will continue to emerge, but that vaccines are ‘effective’. … ...More...

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Dominic Minghella on “Learning to live with Covid”

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Kit Yates on “We have to learn to live with the virus”

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English Freedom Day: Lions led by Zombies

A short reminder of what happened after “Freedom Day” was announced in the Czech Republic on July 2nd 2020:


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UK: with 2 million Long Covid cases and 20,000 new coronavirus infections every day, is this really the right time to lift restrictions?

There is something deeply surreal about Britain’s current Covid-19 policy right now. The UK has one of the fastest rising coronavirus case rates in the world.… ...More...

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Preprint: “Antigenic minimalism as an emerging evolutionary strategy for #coronavirus to evade immune responses”

“..we generated clinically annotated SARS-CoV-2 whole genome sequences and identified deletions within this NTD antigenic supersite in a patient with vaccine breakthrough infection (Δ156-164) and other deletions from unvaccinated severe COVID-19 patients that could represent emerging deletion-prone regions.… ...More...

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