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The back of a medical pill sheet shows information about the Paxlovid medication and dosage instructions.

How effective are COVID antivirals against current variants and who can access them?

By Jacky
This commonly prescribed cancer drug was supposed to help save this doctor's life. Instead, it killed him | CBC News

This commonly prescribed cancer drug was supposed to help save this doctor’s life. Instead, it killed him | Breaking:

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Some 875 cases were logged in England on August 11, according to the most recent Government statistics available, up from just 449 one month earlier. The uptick in cases coincides with the arrival of Eris, known scientifically as EG.5.1, a variant which already makes up one in four new cases. But experts are spooked by another strain, nicknamed Pirola, that is quickly spreading globally due to its catalogue of mutations

UK Covid cases nearly DOUBLE in a month amid rise of two mutant variants, official figures suggest as BA.2.86 continues to sweep the globe

By Merry
The graph above shows the percentage of positive Covid cases (tan line) and the weekly number of new Covid hospitalizations (blue bars).

Covid Infections have DOUBLED in US in past month amid rise of two mutant variants BA.2.86 and ‘Eris’, official data suggests

By Merry
The above shows variants of Covid in the United States. Highlights how EG.5, shown in orange, has grown rapidly as a share of infections and is now dominant

Former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb says nothing suggests new ‘Eris’ Covid variant is more pathogenic than prior variants

By Merry
Researchers explain the origins of dangerous coronavirus variants

Origins of hazardous coronavirus variants explicated by researchers.

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