The vaccine: Who gets to go first

Prioritizing who gets the vaccine first is difficult. One can argue that healthcare workers should be first as they are essential to society. If they are safe, everyone benefits. The argument for the elderly going first is straightforward: it will save more lives. As...

The coronavirus is mutating

Early research indicates the new variant is no more lethal but 10x more contagious.  The coronavirus is mutating – The Washington Post: Studying both versions of the gene using a proxy virus in a petri dish of human cells, Choe and her colleagues found that...