COVID: Why T cell vaccines could be the key to long-term immunity
COVID antibodies don’t persist that well – hence the desire for boosters.
I’m an infectious disease doctor. Yes, I’m vaccinating our 5-year-old against Covid-19. Here is why you should too
The risk of children getting very sick or dying with Covid-19 is low, but the relative risk of severe outcomes and death that kids face when they acquire Covid-19 is extremely high.
What the coronavirus does to your body that makes it so deadly
Every coronavirus infection starts with a virus particle, a spherical shell that protects a single long string of genetic material and inserts it into a human cell.
Yes, you can still get Covid after being vaccinated, but you’re unlikely to get as sick
How a person responds to a vaccine is impacted by a number of host factors, including our age, gender, health and stress levels.
Coronavirus variants: how did they evolve and what do they mean?
Although not all the mutations are thought to be important, the effect of any individual mutation might be changed by the presence of other mutations (an effect called epistasis).
Will coronavirus really evolve to become less deadly?
There is little or no direct evidence that virulence decreases over time. While newly emerged pathogens, such as HIV and Mers, are often highly virulent, the converse is not true.
New drugs work against the many strains of hepatitis C found in African countries
By John McLauchlan, Professor of Viral Hepatitis, University of Glasgow Around the world, 71 million people have been infected with the hepatitis C virus. The primary route of infection is…
Antibiotic resistance: Public awareness campaigns might not work
One hundred and twenty-five countries are now carrying out drug resistance awareness campaigns. Before we congratulate ourselves on the global action, we need to evaluate their effectiveness and whether their side effects outweigh their benefits.