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Montana Becomes Latest State To Lift Mask Mandate Despite Threat Of New Coronavirus Variants

Topline Montana’s statewide mask mandate will be lifted Friday with Covid-19 cases there trending downward, making it the third state to do so despite...

CDC director warns Covid variants could reverse the recent drop in cases and hospitalizations

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Chip Somodevilla | Getty ImagesNew, highly contagious variants of the coronavirus are a...

U.K. Variant Doubling Every 10 Days And Could Become U.S.’s Dominant Strain By March, Study Finds

Topline The coronavirus variant that originated in the United Kingdom is spreading quickly across the U.S., according to the findings of a new study...

Could Biden Send Every American A Mask? Plan Under Consideration As Covid-19 Variants Spread

Topline The White House is considering distributing face masks to all Americans, a Biden administration official confirmed to Forbes, as public health experts call...

How SARS-CoV-2 mutates to escape antibody binding: A scientific detective story unearths how SARS-CoV-2 evolves new variants that evade antibodies

In a recurring pattern of evolution, SARS-CoV-2 evades immune responses by selectively deleting small bits of its genetic sequence, according to new research from...

Doctor predicts new Covid surge amid presence of highly transmissible variants

Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, medical director of the Special Pathogens Unit at Boston Medical Center, told CNBC's  "The News with Shepard Smith" that she anticipates...

Will N95 Face Masks Be Necessary With More Transmissible Covid-19 Coronavirus Variants

The emergence of more contagious strains of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ... (SARS-CoV2) has led...

New coronavirus variants are fueling a ‘second wave’ in Africa, WHO warns

Funeral workers wearing personal protective equipment carry a casket during the burial of a COVID-19 victim, amid a nationwide coronavirus disease (COVID-19) lockdown, at...

New Covid variants are going to ‘hit us pretty hard,’ says Dr. Peter Hotez

Dr. Peter Hotez, co-director of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children's Hospital, says that the U.S. is "in for a tough ride"...

Next-gen’ Covid-19 vaccines may be needed to tackle emerging variants, say scientists – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The spread of Covid-19 variants is not an immediate problem but it's time already for next-gen preventives to tackle them, say scientists...

Immune system of recovered Covid-19 patients may evolve to fight coronavirus variants: Study – Times of India

NEW YORK: People who recover from Covid-19 are protected against the novel coronavirus for at least six months, and likely much longer, according to...

New York state is running 1,000 genome tests per week to look for new Covid variants

Scientists work in a lab testing COVID-19 samples at New York City's health department, during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in New...

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