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SARS Survivors Vaccinated Against Covid-19 May Have Super-Antibodies to Coronaviruses
New research this week offers hope that we may one day be able to create a powerful weapon against coronaviruses like the one that causes covid-19. In survivors of the original 2002-2004 SARS outbreak who were given a covid-19 vaccine, researchers found potent antibodies capable of neutralising a variety of coronaviruses, including the classic SARS…
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Scientists Want a Serious Investigation Into the Origins of the Coronavirus
Scientists in several countries are calling for a serious investigation into the beginnings of SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that gave rise to the covid-19 pandemic. In an open letter released Thursday, the group says that there are still too many unanswered questions about how the pandemic started and that the so-called “lab-leak” theory remains plausible,…
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The Murky Connection Between the Coronavirus and Climate Change
Climate change is basically messing up everything in our lives. It’s tempting to find a way to pin the coronavirus pandemic on it, and a new study released today does just that, claiming that climate change “may have driven the emergence” of coronavirus. But it may be more complicated than it seems at first blush.