SARS-CoV-2

The virus is not tired of you: Fast-spreading omicron shows 'at most limited changes in severity'

Friday is another day of very mixed messages on omicron. Some hopeful results out of South Africa show the number of daily cases taking a slight drop in the Gauteng district where the variant first …

Sat Dec 18, 2021

$4 drug may be more effective than $2,000 monoclonal antibodies in treating COVID-19

From the outset of the pandemic, Republicans have seized on anecdotal claims of COVID-killing drugs to either downplay the disease itself or as an excuse to refuse vaccines. Donald Trump was at the …

Tue Nov 9, 2021

COVID-19 treatment being rushed to FDA after trials were 'stopped early due to positive results'

On Friday morning, pharmaceutical firm Merck issued a statement saying that, in consultation with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), it has stopped recruiting patients to test its antiviral …

Fri Oct 1, 2021

Killing their own followers to own the libs isn't a sick Republican joke, it's the sick truth

On Tuesday, the Bradenton Herald noticed something covered here for the last three weeks—Florida has changed how it reports deaths to paint a falsely positive picture of events in the Sunshine State. …

Tue Aug 31, 2021

There are 2 roads to the end of the pandemic. One's free and safe. The other is expensive and deadly

As the CDC Data Tracker shows, the United States continues to suffer from an expanding wave of COVID-19 cases attributed to the delta variant. As has been the cases for several weeks, that outbreak is …

Mon Aug 30, 2021

COVID-19 continues to burn through the Southeast, but there's a signal that it won't burn forever

On Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) logged over 2,000 deaths from COVID-19 for the first time since March. With the delta variant dominant across the nation, cases were …

Fri Aug 27, 2021

First came a spike in cases, then hospitals overflowed, and now Florida has 'a backlog of bodies'

An NBC poll out on Tuesday tells you what Civiqs has been saying for months: Trump voters are five times less likely to get vaccinated than Biden voters. In fact, with the exception of children under …

Thu Aug 26, 2021

COVID-19 deaths have been extremely rare among children, unfortunately that's no longer true

There aren’t many blessings to count from these last 20 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, but one of the few is that the disease, in its first rounds at least, only rarely affected children. According …

Wed Aug 11, 2021

Studies show COVID-19 helping to remove Republicans from gene pool in more than one way

For more than 18 months, it’s been clear that the SARS-CoV-2 virus—originally better known as the “novel coronavirus”—can call serious lingering illness, as well as death. Many people whose initial …

Tue Jul 27, 2021

U.S. is seeing a new wave of COVID-19 cases, but it won't be like the last wave. Thanks, vaccine!

At the moment, there are two stories in the news when it comes to COVID-19. One is the well-deserved concern over the rising tide of cases. Over the last three weeks, the nation has seen cases rise …

Fri Jul 23, 2021

Delta variant breaking through past infections to generate new waves of COVID-19

Two weeks ago, the CDC labeled the Delta variant as a “variant of concern.” Formerly known as B.1.617.2, or as one of two variants first identified in India, Delta was thought to be partially …

Fri Jun 25, 2021

There is new evidence to support the lab escape theory, but there is a reason it's being pushed

The reason that Republicans keep pushing the lab leak theory isn’t because they believe it. The reason that the lab leak theory is being accepted as fact on Fox News isn’t because there is new …

Thu Jun 17, 2021

Republicans are trying to break Dr. Anthony Fauci, because they can't get him to join them in lies

For weeks, right-wing media—and all too often the media in general—has been reporting “mounting evidence” in favor of the idea that the virus behind COVID-19 escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China. …

Fri Jun 11, 2021

America can't win the fight against COVID-19 unless we find a way to reach anti-vax Republicans

In the United States, COVID-19 is rapidly becoming an endemic disease of Republicans. Over the last seven days, the nation has averaged 45.6 cases per 100,000 people, or just under 22,000 new cases …

Tue Jun 1, 2021

We still can't be sure where COVID-19 first infected humans, but we can be sure about some things

On Tuesday, it was clear that the “fact sheet” behind recent claims that COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan lab could not be trusted, and that, truthfully, we still don’t know the precise origin of the …

Thu May 27, 2021

We don't know where the SARS-CoV-2 virus made the trip from bats to humans

The SARS-CoV-2 virus, like the closely related SARS-CoV virus, is clearly a member of a clade of viruses found in bats. In particular, several species of horseshoe bats, which are found across much of …

Tue May 25, 2021

Two new coronaviruses have been identified that can infect people—and one came from dogs

As Nature reports, there is some good news on the COVID-19 front. Scientists are close to identifying the factors that provide immunity from being infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and even a tiny …

Sat May 22, 2021

COVID-19 numbers are still falling in the United States, but the world is a different story

Earlier this month, a study out of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) projected the actual number of COVID-19 deaths in the United States at over 900,000—far above the official …

Fri May 21, 2021

Vaccines work, the vaccinated can drop their masks, and more Republicans are finally joining in

On Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revised its guidelines to state that people who have been fully vaccinated need not wear masks in most situations. With new cases of …

Fri May 14, 2021

The COVID-19 crisis in India should be raising big alarms that go far beyond Asia

After appearing to do a remarkable job containing and controlling the COVID-19 epidemic in that nation even as the disease spiked elsewhere, an increase in cases that began in March overturned the …

Thu May 13, 2021