CORONAVIRUS pandemic

Resources and articles for learning about Covid-19
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Siouxsie Wiles: What the new, more infectious strains of Covid-19 mean for us
The new variants of the virus can spread like wildfire, and all of us have a role to play in keeping them out of the community. I have to admit, when I first heard UK prime minister Boris Johnson talking about a new, more transmissible strain of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for Covid-19, part of me did wonder whether he was doing a bit of his trademark exaggerating to help explain away he and his government’s woeful pandemic response.
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Opinion | Why Did It Take So Long to Accept the Facts About Covid? (Published 2021)
A week ago, more than a year after the World Health Organization declared that we face a pandemic, a page on its website titled “Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19): How Is It Transmitted?” got a seemingly small update. The agency’s response to that question had been that “current evidence suggests that the main way the virus spreads is by respiratory droplets” — which are expelled from the mouth and quickly fall to the ground — “among people who are in close contact with each other.”
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Don't Blame Bats
#DontBlameBats​ has been launched to dispel widespread unfounded fears and myths about bats which are threatening conservation during the pandemic. Bats are mistakenly blamed for causing COVID-19. Despite the current coronavirus only ever having been identified as a human disease, bat popularity has dropped during the pandemic, with endangered bats being culled in many places in a misguided attempt to stop the spread of the SARS-CoV-2. This practice is detrimental to bat conservation.
At the heart of each coronavirus is its genome, a twisted strand of nearly 30,000 “letters” of RNA. These genetic instructions force infected human cells to assemble up to 29 kinds of proteins that help the coronavirus multiply and spread. Innovation Ideas, Genome Sequencing, Scientific Journal, All About Us, British Government, Health Information, Us Map, News Stories, The New York Times
Inside the B.1.1.7 Coronavirus Variant
At the heart of each coronavirus is its genome, a twisted strand of nearly 30,000 “letters” of RNA. These genetic instructions force infected human cells to assemble up to 29 kinds of proteins that help the coronavirus multiply and spread.
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The Known Unknowns – NZ GEO
Hand soap might smell like Burger King Whoppers, coffee like sewage. Patients are experiencing phantom odors as they try to recover their ability to smell. Coffee Smell, Calamine Lotion, Rose Essential Oil, Science Resources, The Way Back, Burger King, Interesting Articles, The Atlantic, Just For Me
Relearning to Smell After COVID-19 Is Its Own Strange Experience – THE ATLANTIC Mar 2021
Hand soap might smell like Burger King Whoppers, coffee like sewage. Patients are experiencing phantom odors as they try to recover their ability to smell.
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Siouxsie Wiles: The Plan B implosion – what Brazil teaches us about the herd immunity hogwash
Siouxsie Wiles: The experience in the Brazilian city of Manaus reveals how mistaken, and dangerous, the herd-immunity-by-infection theory really is. As families around the world mourn more than two million people dead from Covid-19, the Plan B academics and their PR industry collaborator continue to argue that the New Zealand government should stop focussing on our managed isolation and quarantine system and instead protect the elderly so that they can reopen the border and allow everyone...