Jonathan Dushoff News Today

Your chance of getting Covid-19 again is much higher than if you had the Delta and Beta variants, scientists have found.

While bolstering the borders might help slow the spread of the new variant, vaccines are the first line of defence. ben wright, bbc news. scientists in botswana say the 0micron strain, which was first detected in a number of southern african countries more than a week ago, had probably been in circulation since september. health officials there, say it could already have spread widely around the world before other countries started to impose travel bans. ive been speaking to jonathan dushoff fro...

The battle between awareness of the COVID-19’s severe consequences and fatigue from nine months of pandemic precautions shows up in the oddly shaped case, hospitalization, and fatality-count graphs, a new study suggests. The tension between awareness and fatigue can lead to case-count plateaus, shoulder-like dynamics, and oscillations as rising numbers of deaths cause people to become more cautious before they let down their guard to engage once again in behaviors that increase risk for trans...