Two important types of COVID therapeutics are monoclonal antibodies and antivirals.
As of late 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had authorized or approved the use of two monoclonal antibodies (Bebtelovimab and Evusheld) and three...
On 15/16 March 2023, the WHO updated its tracking system and working definitions for SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern to take to account for the dominance and variance of the Omicron variant and its sublineages. The new definitions mean that Omicron...
Vitamin D has a history of large scale studies pointing both to and away from health benefits, and many western countries already recommend supplementing Vitamin D during winter months. An extensive summary of the evidence for Vitamin D’s various...
Many COVID vaccine possibilities are being explored, including nasal drops. Some have speculated that there may be a high bar for new vaccine approvals. The authors point out that (1) a new vaccine would likely need to prove it is more effective than...
Vitamin D has a history of large scale studies pointing both to and away from health benefits, and many western countries already recommend supplementing Vitamin D during winter months. An extensive summary of the evidence for Vitamin D’s various...
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VDH tracks the number of new COVID-19 cases by date of symptom onset, which it currently updates on...
The World Health Organization has (as of January 2022) identified several variants of SARS-CoV-2, 5 of which are designated as variants of concern. This designation indicates that the variant is more serious than previous variants of the virus, in...
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There have been major variants of SARS-CoV-2 that have had increased transmissibility and severity, leading to new waves of the pandemic, primarily alpha,...
Vitamin D has a history of large scale studies pointing both to and away from health benefits, and many western countries already recommend supplementing Vitamin D during winter months. An extensive summary of the evidence for Vitamin D’s various...
As of mid January 2021, more than a thousand people are dying in the UK with COVID-19 every day.
On 2020-01-30, the World Health Organization announced a Public Health Emergency of International Concern regarding the COVID-19 in China. They declared that the outbreak had become a pandemic on 2021-03-11 . The declarations are typically renewed...
The United States is one of a handful of countries to still prohibit entry of unvaccinated foreign nationals. The vaccine requirement for foreign nationals was imposed by President Biden on October 25, 2021 by presidential proclamation and has no...
Over 4 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered globally, but the virus continues to spread even in countries with very high rates of vaccination such as Israel.
Sufficiently widespread vaccination (and natural antibodies from...
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- Will Omicron be the most dominant sequenced strain of SARS-CoV-2 on December 31, 2022?
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, multiple novel variants have emerged as a result of continued evolution of...
Nobel Prizes are awarded each Autumn in Peace, Literature, Physics, Chemistry, and Medicine & Physiology, or some of those categories.
Accomplishments relating to global pandemics may be recognized in any appropriate category. Prize citations in...
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