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Pirola! An asteroid? Football player? No, it's the latest strain!
It seems like a mere week ago that we were talking about the last new variant - because it was only a week ago.
Move over Eris, there's a new variant …
2 years, 8 months ago
Hello furry mammal are you the next pandemic?
Wherever you look, viruses are going into and coming out of animals.
Mostly this happens without much fanfare, though occasionally it causes big probl…
2 years, 8 months ago
Can picking your nose lead to COVID
If you think that excavating your nose is a harmless if somewhat disgusting habit - think again.
A new study reckons you could emerge with COVID-19.
Ot…
2 years, 8 months ago
How you and 200 friends can save one hospitalisation
We've said it before and we'll say it again - make sure you get your booster dose.
But what, you ask, is in it for me? How likely am I to be the one …
2 years, 8 months ago
COVID's not alone in the wastewater
In the early days of COVID, we used wastewater surveillance to spot undetected community transmission.
Our sewage gave public health authorities early…
2 years, 9 months ago
How do COVID antivirals work? And what's with the rebound?
A lot has been said about COVID antivirals, especially on how they might help bring down the number of deaths from the disease.
But occasionally an in…
2 years, 9 months ago
What's RSV again? The *other* winter virus that's hitting hard
It's the depths of winter, and every second person you know has a cold of some sort.
Most are mild but some can hit hard - as we all know from COVID …
2 years, 9 months ago
What happened to Sweden? We're answering your questions!
It was a massive question at the start of the pandemic: is Sweden's strategy of keeping things open a better way forward?
Zoom ahead a few years, and …
2 years, 9 months ago
Is this why it feels like everyone keeps getting COVID?
Our immune system does an amazing job keeping us healthy - but it works in mysterious ways, especially when it comes into contact with novel viruses …
2 years, 10 months ago
What makes a COVID superspreader?
We've all heard that COVID spreads in clusters and sometimes the cluster comes from a single person who can infect nearly everyone around them.
They'r…
2 years, 10 months ago