Covid lessons: WHO drafts new code to help world to better prepare for future pandemics
The global response to Covid-19 represented a “catastrophic failure of the international community in showing solidarity and equity”. This frank assessment and admission comes in the opening line of the first or ‘zero’, draft of a new international pandemic agreement, published by the World Health Organization (WHO) last week. The...
New evidence details how drug made by Merck pharmaceuticals triggers Covid mutation, resistance
A drug widely used to treat Covid-19 might be spurring the evolution of new SARS-CoV-2 variants. The drug, molnupiravir, works by introducing a flurry of mutations to the viral genome; this helps to clear infections. But a study of more than 13 million SARS-CoV-2 sequences has uncovered sequences that bear...
