Category: Research
Bloom Lab: Why is XBB.1.5 so contagious?
One of the world’s top Covid labs explains how Omicron XBB.1.5 has learned new tricks to become more transmissible than other SARS-CoV-2 variants. More...
US wastewater shows second-highest ever Covid wave
Wastewater tests conducted by the US firm Biobot are showing the second-highest ever peak in readings for Covid for the entire pandemic. More...
XBB.1.5 at a staggering FORTY PERCENT of sequences in the US
These numbers were so shocking that, when they were leaked online yesterday, we didn’t believe them. More...
XBB.1.5 has a much higher hACE2 binding affinity than XBB.1
A new Twitter thread by Chinese researcher Yunlong Richard Cao about XBB.1.5 seems to confirm some of the anecdotal data collected recently about this hypertransmissable subvariant. More...
Around 19 million US adults have Long COVID
CIDRAP are reporting that City University of New York researchers estimate that 7.3% of US adult COVID-19 survivors have persistent symptoms – that’s almost 19 million Americans. More...
WAPO: Vaccinated people who never had Covid at least three times as likely to be infected as unvaccinated with prior infection
“A Lancet study found that those who were vaccinated but never had covid were four times as likely to have severe illness resulting in hospitalization or death compared to the unvaccinated who recovered from it.” More...
Censored by Youtube: Anecdotals movie explores Covid-19 vaccine injuries
A new video exploring the subject of Covid-19 vaccine injuries has been scrubbed by Youtube within hours of going live – watch the full video below. More...
Recombinant SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 variant found in Chinese bats
A new preprint out today has been looking at viruses in Chinese bats and has turned up some surprises – it looks like a recombinant variant of SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 has been found! More...
UK: Covid on the rise in FIFTH wave of the year
The UK ZOE app is showing Covid cases are once again on then rise in what would be the fifth wave of 2022 in the UK. More...
Preprint: Two thirds of first-wave Covid cases have long Covid
The proportion of patients with at least 1 post–COVID-19 symptom 2 years after acute infection was 59.7% for hospitalized patients and 67.5% for those not requiring hospitalization. More...