COVID numbers are low, but some evidence suggests they could be rising. Here’s how to protect yourself this summer, according to experts BY LAUREN J. YOUNG Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Editor’s Note (6/5/25): Today the Food and Drug Administration’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee unanimously voted in favor of...
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How monoclonal antibodies lost the fight with new COVID variants
PIEN HUANG Antonio Rapuano got an infusion of a monoclonal antibody to treat his COVID in Albano, Italy in 2021. Such infusions have been effective treatments for COVID during the pandemic, but doctors are now finding that most monoclonal antibodies no longer work against new variants of SARS-CoV-2. Yara Nardi/Reuters Monoclonal antibodies were once the...
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AI FINDS OLD DRUGS THAT CAN TREAT NEW COVID VARIANTS
Finding new ways to treat the novel coronavirus and its ever-changing variants has been a challenge, especially when traditional drug development and discovery process can take years. “The COVID-19 virus is a challenge because it continues to evolve,” says Bin Chen, an associate professor in the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University. “By...
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Antibody “master key” discovery could neutralize all COVID variants
By Rich Haridy August 21, 2022 A new study describes a part of the coronavirus spike protein shared across all variants that makes it vulnerable to novel antibodies targeting that region Depositphotos A new study published in Nature Communications has homed in on a part of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein that seems to be shared across all...
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1 ANTIBODY NEUTRALIZES A BUNCH OF COVID VIRUS VARIANTS
The virus today is not the same as the one that first sickened people back in December 2019. Many of the variants circulating now are partially resistant to some of the antibody-based therapeutics that were developed based on the original virus. As the pandemic continues, more variants inevitably will arise, and the problem of resistance...
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No need yet to adapt Pfizer vaccine for Covid variants: BioNTech chief
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The first generation vaccine developed by BioNTech-Pfizer works against coronavirus variants such as the Delta strain and does not need to be modified for the moment, the chief executive of German company BioNTech said Monday. “It is quite possible that in the next six to 12 months, further variants will emerge...
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The Present and Future of COVID Variants
Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed what Harvard-affiliated physicians had reported from anecdotal and laboratory evidence: the delta variant of COVID-19 not only spreads more rapidly than other versions of the virus, it can sicken vaccinated individuals who can then spread the virus to others. In its “Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report,”...
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New COVID variants Epsilon, Lambda may be resistant to vaccines, early lab studies show
By Katherine Rodriguez | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com The Epsilon and Lambda variants of COVID-19 are “variants of interest,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and early studies show they have developed a resistance to vaccines. Japanese researchers found the Lambda variant, which was initially discovered in Peru and is now spreading throughout South America, is highly...
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‘A bloody mess’: Confusion reigns over naming of new COVID variants
Ewen Callaway New variants of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 are being identified around the world.Credit: David Talukdar/NurPhoto/Getty Would a virus by any other name spread so fast? As scientists identify more and more potentially worrying variants of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, they are grappling with just what to call them. At a 12 January World Health Organization...