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Stuart Neil’s day job keeps him pretty occupied. He’s a virologist at King’s College London, investigating how the coronavirus causing Covid-19 attacks the human immune system. Then, in his own words, he found himself “falling down the rabbit hole” otherwise known as Twitter. Or more specifically, the Twitter debate over how the Covid-19 virus originated, though “debate” could be a...

Almost two years after China reported the first known case of COVID-19, experts still cannot confirm how the pandemic began. The journal Science recently convened four experts who debated the likely scenarios.Germ genesisMichael Worobey of the University of Arizona Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology sees Mother Nature's hand in SARS-CoV-2's family resemblance to

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Coronaviruses discovered in Laotian bats are surprisingly adept at infecting human cells, showing that such deadly features can indeed evolve outside of a lab.

Findings have significant implications for the charged debate over COVID's origins

Commentary The remarkable similarities between a recently leaked 2018 proposal from EcoHealth Alliance head Peter Daszak and the ...

Circumstantial evidence is piling up on how the pandemic began. On one side of the debate over whether COVID-19 has a natural origin or whether it could have spawned from a laboratory accident, researchers point to evidence such as discoveries of viruses in nature that are very similar to SARS-CoV-2. On the other side, leaked documents and Freedom of Information Act requests regarding bat research in China and the United States have fueled suspicions that a lab played a role in the initial outbr...

A new study reveals that scientists have found three viruses in bats in Laos that exhibit similar characteristic features as SARS-CoV-2.

A cocktail of long-acting antibodies administered intramuscularly as COVID-19 prevention cut the risk of developing symptomatic disease in a high-risk unvaccinated patient population.Written by Steven HansenThe U.S. new cases 7-day rolling average are 14.2 % HIGHER than the 7-day rolling average one week ago and U.S. deaths due to coronavirus are now 47.9 % HIGHER than the rolling average one week ago. Todays posts include:

Wegen der Delta-Variante wächst die Sorge vor unwirksamen Impfstoffen. Doch nun gibt es Hinweise auf eine Super-Immunität gegen Corona.