Apoorva Mandavilli, NYT

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Scientists report earliest known COVID-19 cases in US

Results suggest that coronavirus may have been circulating as early as Dec. 24, 2019

Medical staff wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) transport a COVID-19 patient at Stamford Hospital on April 24, 2020 in Stamford, Connecticut.

Immunity to coronavirus may persist for years: Study

Cells retaining memory of virus stay in bone marrow and may churn out antibodies later

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Reaching ‘herd immunity’ unlikely in the US: Experts

Virus will most likely become manageable threat that will circulate for years to come

People on the National Mall in Washington, April 3, 2021. Daily vaccination rates are slipping and there is growing consensus among scientists and public health experts that while herd immunity may never be possible, the virus will most likely become a manageable threat that will continue to circulate, causing hospitalisations and deaths but in much smaller numbers.

Some virus survivors have antibodies that attack body

Misguided immune response may explain why ‘long haulers’ have lingering problems

Nurses wearing protective masks and protective suits, work in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) where patients suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are treated at the Le Bois private hospital in Lille, France, October 28, 2020.

India COVID-19 study: 5% of people infected 80%

Study reveals that people infected first more likely to be male and older than contacts

Relatives mourn the death of a man due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a crematorium in New Delhi, India September 28, 2020.

Why are teens hit hard by COVID-19?

Data suggests ‘young persons might be playing important role in community transmission’

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CDC virus testing guidance published against objections

Guidance ‘dropped’ into US disease control agency website flouting review process

Robert Redfield, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention director, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 16, 2020. A controversial guideline saying that people without COVID-19 symptoms didn’t need to get tested was reportedly not written by CDC scientists, and was posted to the CDC’s website in August by Health and Human Services officials.

Can you get COVID-19 again? Very unlikely, experts say

Scientists point to drawn-out course of infection for some people sometimes taking months

A medical personnel takes a nasal swab from a police officer at a COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) free screening booth set up in the arrival hall of the Bordeaux-Merignac international airport in Merignac, southwestern France, on July 23, 2020.

Can HIV be cured now?

Feat is milestone in the global AIDS epidemic

Dr. Ravindra Gupta, a virologist at University College London, in his lab.

A wearable patch uses sweat to track fitness

A device provides real-time information on the wearer’s pH and levels of glucose

A photo provided by John Rogers, a biomedical engineer at Northwestern University, shows a device — wearable, wireless and battery-free — that reads the body’s toil to monitor the wearer’s health

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