COVID, monkeypox, Ebola, and SARS all originated in animals. Some researchers think we can predict what’s next, while others believe it’s an impossible task. By Matthew Hutson The natural world is a reservoir of plagues. At any moment, untold numbers of viruses...
A “universal” flu vaccine could bring one of the world’s longest pandemics to an end. By Matthew Hutson n 2009, global health officials started tracking a new kind of flu. It appeared first in Mexico, in March, and quickly infected thousands. Influenza tends to kill...
New antiviral drugs are startlingly effective against the coronavirus—if they’re taken in time. By Dhruv Khullar In March, 2020, researchers at Emory University published a paper about a molecule called NHC/EIDD-2801. At the time, there were no treatments available...
Nationwide, the Delta wave is waning, but what do the coming months hold? By Dhruv Khullar, a contributing writer at The New Yorker, is a practicing physician and an assistant professor at Weill Cornell Medical College. The coronavirus pandemic in the United States...
Delta won’t be the last variant. What will the next ones bring?By Dhruv Khullar In 1988, Richard Lenski, a thirty-one-year-old biologist at UC Irvine, started an experiment. He divided a population of a common bacterium, E. coli, into twelve flasks. Each...
https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/swedens-pandemic-experiment?utm_source=pocket-newtab Originally published by: The New Yorker Author: Mallory Pickett Date: 4/6/2021 Categories: News & Science
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