How Is The World Responding To The COVID-19 Pandemic?
How Is The World Responding To The COVID-19 Pandemic? Many countries have started to ease pandemic measures and restrictions around the world. However, as novel variants emerge, circulate, and create new waves of infection, it is hardly possible to say that we are nearing the end of the pandemic. The pandemic response around the world […]
Testing for COVID-19: When should I get a COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Test?
Testing for COVID-19: When should I get a COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Test? The development of rapid antigen tests for COVID-19 has enabled wide populations to test themselves as often as they might need. Altogether, rapid antigen tests complement molecular methods such as PCR by providing more frequent, convenient, accessible, and faster diagnostics for COVID-19. Still, […]
How Do I Use A COVID-19 Antigen Self-Test?
How Do I Use A COVID-19 Antigen Self-Test? As our search for a new normal continues in the face of new variants, the demand for more accessible, convenient, and faster diagnostics keeps growing. Especially with the circulation of more transmissible variants like Omicron, more people than ever need convenient, frequent, and consistent testing in their […]
Scientists Deliberately Gave People SARS-CoV-2
Scientists Deliberately Gave People SARS-CoV-2 Although still controversial, human challenge studies which refer to trial’s participants are intentionally exposed to the pathogen that causes the examined infectious disease are not new. In fact, the first documented human challenge trial dates to 1700s which was conducted to evaluate the effectivity of variolation against smallpox. Over the […]
