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Op-ed: Preventing disease by addressing climate change, understanding immunity To reduce the threat of major global diseases such as COVID-19, governments must make greater investments in climate-change solutions and in understanding how the human immune system works, says Wayne Koff, adjunct professor of epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Climate change–driven weather extremes have led to human migration that has brought people into closer contact with animals harboring dangerous pathogens, according to an April 22, 2021, opinion piece in STAT co-authored by Koff. C...

  “There is light at the end of the tunnel,” Wayne Koff, President and CEO of the Human Vaccines Project, an organization that promotes vaccine development, said. “It is just that the tunnel is far longer than we assumed.”Illustration by pumpyvector / Shutterstock After I got my second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, a wave of euphoria infused me along with the modified messenger RNA. Many friends describe the same feeling. This is the end of the pandemic for me. Life returns to normal.  But then my usual, pessimistic view of life returned along with an examination of the evidence. Ther...

Getty Images / WIRED In the last two decades, three major pandemic threats have been triggered by coronaviruses. In 2003, there was Sars, which killed 774 people. This was followed nine years later by Mers, which has killed 858 people to date. In 2020, along came Covid-19, which so far has killed more than 2.5 million people. If recent history is anything to go by, it’s a given that more coronaviruses will spill over from animals into humans, potentially triggering another global crisis. Scientists are already working on ways to stop the next pandemic before it has a chance to cause so much...

Coronavirus in Jacksonville: What you need to know for Thursday, Feb. 25 3 p.m. COVID short circuits Pentagon's survey of sexual assault at military academies The follow-up survey to a devastating report on sexual assaults at the military academies two years ago was short circuited by the COVID-19 pandemic, Pentagon officials said Thursday. Military officials had planned to conduct in-person surveys at the academies in the spring of 2020 but the pandemic had forced cadets and midshipmen from their campuses to remote learning, Nathan Galbreath, deputy director of the Pentagon's Sexual Assault...

Updates on coronavirus numbers and news related to the coronavirus across Jacksonville and Northeast Florida counties Duval, Clay and St. Johns.