viral mutation

In a new article in Nature, author Max Kozlov asks the question, "COVID drug Paxlovi

If you're sick of (or with) COVID, join the club. It's endless. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease, keeps throwing one surprise after another at us in ways that could have never been predicted early in the pandemic.

Somehow we pulled it off. More or less.

Remember the early days of Covid when experts were excitedly talking about herd immunity (HI) and how things would get back to normal when this was reached? How long has it been since the term was used? The answer is five days.

Are COVID vaccines responsible for creating the multiple variants that keep hitting the world? I get this question all the time in the comments section following ACSH articles about vaccines.

Consider these recent headlines and imagine how they were interpreted by casual news followers.

As if we don't have enough problems.