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I read an interesting article about two strains of the coronavirus:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2236544-coronavirus-are-there-two-strains-and-is-one-more-deadly/
I would like to know how the scientists used to classify a coronavirus as l-strain and s-strain.
And more specifically I woul...
As the flood of information, from around the world, comes in concerning the pandemic; should we create a coronavirus-bioinformatics tag and try to apply the principals of bioinformatics to it? This may help lighten the load on Biology.SE.
Why are vaccines required for our body's immune system to destroy viruses that cause the likes of Covid-19 or Polio, while viruses that cause the common-cold are self-limiting (go away on their own)? What is so different about viruses that cause diseases requiring vaccines?
There are convincing theories that Covid-19 was part of a virology research project (i.e like this one documented in ScienceMag in 2011) that escaped the lab.
Which leads to the question; if it was engineered for a long incubation period, how exactly was this accomplished? Is anyone aware of any...
I've found an article saying that SARS-CoV-2 virus can spread through breathing (quoting Dr. Osterholm):
The findings confirm that COVID-19 is spread simply through breathing, even without coughing, he said. They also challenge the idea that contact with contaminated surfaces is a primary mea...
