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Fauci on COVID Drugs, Vaccines and Getting Back to Normal

The U.S.’s top infectious disease specialist describes a new Biden administration program to develop and test antivirals—and what he’s most worried about as the nation reopens

  • Publisher: Scientific American
July 2021 sw_admin 0
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There Are Few Good COVID Antivirals, but That Could Be Changing

Developing pills that block the novel coronavirus has been challenging. A new Biden administration program aims to boost the effort

  • Publisher: Scientific American
July 2021 sw_admin 0
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New Coronavirus Variants Are Urgently Being Tracked around the World

Genomic sequencing efforts are limited in developing countries, but scientists are mobilizing to help

  • Publisher: Scientific American
June 2021 sw_admin 0
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Lab Leak: A Scientific Debate Mired in Politics — and Unresolved

More than a year into the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, some scientists say the possibility of a lab leak never got a fair look.

  • Publisher: Undark
March 2021 sw_admin 0
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Booster Shots Against Scary COVID Virus Variants Are In the Works

Vaccine makers are designing follow-up shots, based on new mutations, to keep the disease at bay

  • Publisher: Scientific American
February 2021 sw_admin 0
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New COVID Vaccines Need Absurd Amounts of Material and Labor

Companies are scrambling to obtain supplies for hundreds of millions of doses of a type of vaccine that has never been made at this scale before

  • Publisher: Scientific American
January 2021 sw_admin 0

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About Me

I’m a science writer based in southern Maine. For more than two decades, I’ve been covering health, medicine, the environment, technology, and other topics for numerous publications.
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