As omicron subvariant BA.5 continues to drive the coronavirus’ spread in the United States, I’ve been thinking about what could come next. Omicron and its offshoots have been topping the variant ...

Diverse coronavirus (CoV) strains can infect both animals and humans and bring about different diseases. CoVs are known to have caused three epidemics and pandemics in the last two decades. Therefore, ...

Homologous recombination is an event in which parts of a genome from different parent lineages are combined to form a new lineage. This can occur for coronaviruses when a single cell is co-infected, ...

Researchers have developed a model that predicts the likely evolution of variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The model predicts which variants can escape human immunity, spread through the population ...

A recent study published in the medRxiv* preprint server assessed the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) lethality and severity during the two years of the SARS-CoV-2 ...

The coronavirus has come a long way since 2020. While the days of sanitizing Amazon packages and standing six feet apart may feel like they’re behind us (and they very well may be), the SARS-Co-V-2 ...

It’s impossible to say how the coronavirus will continue to evolve. Those changes, after all, are a result of random mutations. But there are some fundamental principles that explain why the virus has ...