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ANALYSIS: Coronavirus Variants Don't Seem to Be Highly Variable So Far

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The Coronavirus Variants Don't Seem to Be Highly Variable So Far SARS-CoV-2 may be settling into a limited set of mutations Vaughn Cooper Scientific American

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Covid-19 cases are no longer declining in New York City, may be new variants

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COVID-19 cases have stopped declining in New York City. Experts are trying to find out why. Nationwide, COVID cases have fallen dramatically since the winter peak and millions of vaccine doses started rolling out. Specifically, the New York City metropolitan area had a rate of nearly 260.6 cases per capita for the week ending March 21, the second highest case rate in the nation, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Although cases are not as high as they were during the spring and winter surges, the city has “reached a plateau, which simply means that cases are no longer declining,” said Dr. David D.
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COVID-19 unique new vaccines in the works, using a variety of approaches o.

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Here’s what makes 4 promising COVID-19 vaccines unique | Science News More vaccines still in the works are exploring a variety of approaches, including pills and electrical zaps. mike Science News
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Florida hit hard by coronavirus variants; state finally releases data after newspaper law suit.

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Florida releases COVID-19 variant data day after Orlando Sentinel sues for it The data shows most of the state’s variant cases have been found in South Florida, but all Central Florida counties also reported the mutated viral strains. Kate Santich orlandosentinel.com
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Overview of Covid-19 cases rising in much of the world--the Economist, with graphs

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Covid-19 cases are rising again in much of the world More transmissible variants, rather than changes in behaviour, are largely to blame The Economist

LIKE A STORY-BOOK villain, the covid-19 pandemic has a habit of fighting back from the brink of defeat. Last summer politicians were quick to assume that the coronavirus had been squashed, only for a second wave to engulf much of Europe and North America in the autumn.

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Can vaccines stop the more contagious coronavirus variants spreading in the US?

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A more contagious coronavirus variant is spreading across the US. Can vaccines stop it? A new, more contagious and potentially more deadly Covid-19 variant called B.1.1.7 is spreading across the US. But the currently authorized vaccines should be able to stop it. Maggie Fox, CNN CNN
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ANALYSIS: Five reasons why COVID herd immunity is probably impossible

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As COVID-19 vaccination rates pick up around the world, people have reasonably begun to ask: how much longer will this pandemic last? It’s an issue surrounded with uncertainties. But the once-popular idea that enough people will eventually gain immunity to SARS-CoV-2 to block most transmission — a ‘herd-immunity threshold’ — is starting to look unlikely.

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ANALYSIS: Post-immunization casesare very rare and but also very expected.

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Don’t Be Surprised When Vaccinated People Get Infected Post-immunization cases, sometimes called “breakthroughs,” are very rare and very expected. Katherine J. Wu The Atlantic
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Regular booster vaccines are the future to counter COVID-19 virus -- expert says

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Exclusive: Regular booster vaccines are the future in battle with COVID-19 virus, top genome expert says Regular booster vaccines against the novel coronavirus will be needed because of mutations that make it more transmissible and better able to evade human immunity, the head of Britain's effort to sequence the virus's genomes told Reuters. Guy Faulconbridge U.S.
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