Greg VerissimoThe Race to Save the World: The Remarkable Scientific Discoveries Behind the New COVID-19 Vaccines — TIMEapple.news - TIMEOpen this story in Apple News. For the best reading experience, open this story on a device with Apple News. It may also be available on the …
Greg VerissimoA traveler tested negative for covid-19 before a flight. He had the virus and infected 4 passengers.verified_publisherThe Washington Post - Shannon McMahonHealth officials in New Zealand, a country that has a strict 14-day quarantine in place for arriving travelers, released a case study on Friday that details the risks of traveling on long-haul flights during the coronavirus pandemic — even if negative coronavirus tests are required before the …
Greg VerissimoWhy a Negative Test Doesn’t Guarantee You Don’t Have the Coronavirusverified_publisherThe New Yorker - Clayton DaltonWe want coronavirus tests to give us the all-clear. But, in medicine, test results are clues, not answers—and no test is perfect. During my medical residency, I spent a month on the obstetrics ward, learning how to deliver babies. On one occasion, I was paged to a delivery room down the hall. …
Greg VerissimoHow Does the Coronavirus Behave Inside a Patient?verified_publisherThe New Yorker - Siddhartha MukherjeeWe’ve counted the viral spread across peoples; now we need to count it within people. In the third week of February, as the COVID-19 epidemic was still flaring in China, I arrived in Kolkata, India. I woke up to a sweltering morning—the black kites outside my hotel room were circling upward, lifted …
Greg VerissimoThe Lancet Editor’s Wild Ride Through the Coronavirus Pandemicverified_publisherThe New Yorker - Sam KnightOn January 24th, four days after President Xi Jinping made his first public statement about the coronavirus, The Lancet, a British medical journal that has been printed weekly since 1823, published a clinical account of forty-one patients who had been infected in Wuhan. The seven-page paper, which …
Greg VerissimoCan a Vaccine for Covid-19 Be Developed in Record Time? (Published 2020)verified_publisherThe New York TimesIn the history of medicine, rarely has a vaccine been developed in less than five years. Among the fastest to be developed was the current mumps vaccine, which was isolated from the throat washings of a child named Jeryl Lynn in 1963. Over the next months, the virus was systematically “weakened” in …
