July 8, 2021 – At a pivotal moment in the pandemic, Nature explores key questions about the vaccines that countries are racing to deliver while viral variants spread around the globe. Read more.
July 7, 2021 – The coronavirus pandemic almost certainly originated from an animal, probably at a wildlife market in China, and not from a laboratory leak, a group of virus experts said. Read more.
June 30, 2021 – The oldest modern coronavirus is about 820 years old, but humanity has been fighting similar viruses for millennia. Read more.
June 25, 2021 – There's always another technicality, no matter how much evidence researchers find. Read more.
June 23, 2021 – The NIH confirmed that it deleted the sequences after receiving a request from a Chinese researcher who had submitted them three months earlier. Read more.
June 9, 2021 – HIV has changed. As a result of advances in antiretroviral therapy, many people living with HIV, with access to treatment, are now living longer, healthier lives than ever before. Yet, with these extended lifespans comes the importance of continuously re-evaluating current and future treatment needs as they evolve, based on individual risks of comorbidities, co-existing conditions, and concomitant medications. As such, there is a need for healthcare providers to engage in comprehensive discussions with people living with HIV about wider lifestyle and treatment considerations, including psychosocial factors, technology barriers, and how medication needs may evolve over a lifetime. Read more.
June 14, 2021 – The pandemic caused a temporary dip in 2020. But as public health spending has decreased, sexually transmitted disease trends have increased. Read more.
June 8, 2021 – "It seems more plausible than a lab leak." Finding a coronavirus closely related to Covid-19 circulating in wild animals would likely quell suspicions that the pandemic virus was created in a lab, says UCSD's Joel Wertheim. Watch the video.
May 19, 2021 – The hypothesis that Covid-19 was leaked from a Wuhan lab has leaped from its original host — Trump administration officials and people dismissed as conspiracy theorists — into the body of mainstream debate. Last week, 18 leading scientists published a letter in the academic journal Science calling for further investigation to determine the origin of the pandemic that has killed 3.4 million people worldwide. Read more.
May 12, 2021 – COVID-19 restrictions dramatically decreased how often children got sick. Here’s what it will take to keep that up. Read more
April 14, 2021 – The doctor who led Johnson & Johnson vaccine trials in San Diego stressed the pause was recommended out of an abundance of caution, and county leaders say the shortage won't severely impact vaccinations locally. Read more.
April 13, 2021 – New research finds that getting vaccinated doesn’t just help protect you from COVID-19, it also helps protect those around you who haven’t yet been vaccinated — including young kids. Read more
April 11, 2021 – A clinical trial of college students, including those at UC San Diego, will try to answer that question, and whether vaccinated persons might still pose an infection risk to others. Read more.
April 9, 2021 – The most recent data available suggests reported cases of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) have declined. This may sound like good news, but experts at University of California San Diego AntiViral Research Center say that the drop in reported STD rates may be the result of decreased testing during COVID-19 restrictions and could rise again as restrictions are lifted. Read more.
April 7, 2021 – Opinion piece authored by Susan Little, MD. Read more.
April 1, 2021 – A clinical trial of college students, including those at UC San Diego, will try to answer that question, and whether vaccinated persons might still pose an infection risk to others. Read more.
March 31, 2021 – Theories about a laboratory leak being the source of the coronavirus pandemic sound like something out of a comic book, one virologist says. Read more.
March 29, 2021 – Data collected during the COVID-19 pandemic suggests reported cases of sexually transmitted diseases have declined, but experts at UC San Diego's AntiViral Research Center on Monday said rates could soon be on the rise again. Read more.
March 27, 2021 – Features Constance
Benson, MD, and Robert Schooley, MD. Read more.
March 18, 2021 – Study dates emergence to as early as October 2019; simulations suggest in most cases zoonotic viruses die out naturally before causing a pandemic. Read more.
February 19, 2021 – The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. Read more.
February 9, 2021 – Optical tool in many smartphones found effective at assessing blood-oxygen levels and could be used to identify persons with worsening respiratory function. Read more.