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President Joe Biden held a moment of silence and a candle-lighting service Monday at the White House to mark 500,000 deaths. Latest COVID-19 news.

This has to be the moment to invest in coronavirus vaccines and treatments against future pandemics, experts warn Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY Replay Video UP NEXT The last thing people will want to think about when this pandemic ends is the next one. Its human nature to move on, to want to put coronaviruses, vaccines and disease surveillance behind us. But a growing chorus of researchers says now is the time to get ready for what is sure to come.  © John Moore, Getty Images...

A growing chorus of researchers say now is the time to invest in coronavirus vaccine development and treatments to stop the next pandemic.

The prestigious journal Science on Thursday published an editorial calling for a global effort to develop a universal coronavirus vaccine that would remain effective against other members of the same virus family that might cross over to humans.

The star scientists and determined technocrats running Joe Biden’s program to defeat Covid-19 know they have been given a huge boost by the brilliant invention in record time of multiple effective coronavirus vaccines. In addition to two vaccines already approved for emergency use in the United States, “it’s really likely that in the next three months that there will be as many as three others”, said Wayne Koff, an outside expert and president...

What you need to know about new COVID-19 strains Dr. Ben Locwin As has been coming across the newswires over the past week or so, a new(er) strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, called B.1.1.7 (similar to one called 501.V2 (meaning a mutation in the spike protein at position ‘501’ and ‘variant 2’) has been detected in patient samples from South Africa, the UK, and of course this means that it’s actually everywhere, just not noted yet by the press. You’d think it was the second coming of ...