At the time, this was quite a novel idea. Flu and COVID evolution do differ in important ways, but chronic COVID infections, too, are now being examined as harbingers of the future.

Quirks and Quarks13:14New COVID variants: what’s driving the virus to evolve, and what we can do about it The rampant spread of COVID-19 and concern about potentially more transmissible variants ...

Viruses are the most diverse and abundant biological entities: they are widely known, fast-evolving, and have adapted to be able to infect all life forms. Despite this, their origin and ...

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Credit: Made with elements from Canva by Emma Gometz In the world of emerging infectious diseases, one of the looming threats comes from the so-called zoonotic diseases—pathogens that somehow make the ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has been a lesson in speed — the speed at which a novel virus among humans can spread, the speed at which it can rack up fatalities and cripple economies, the speed at ...

Dr. Cobey studies the interaction of immunity, virus evolution and transmission at the University of Chicago. Dr. Bloom and Dr. Starr study virus evolution at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research ...

“When you have a pandemic or an epidemic at some point in evolution, the population that is targeted by the virus either adapt s, or goes extinct. We knew that, but what really surprised us is the ...

Viruses are the most diverse and abundant biological entities: they are widely known, fast-evolving, and have adapted to be able to infect all life forms. Despite this, their origin and ...