With Omicron evading vaccines and significantly reducing vaccine effectiveness, we need to talk about another tool we can use to fight SARS-CoV-2: Mannose Binding Lectins. Vaccines train our adaptive immune system to produce antibodies that recognize a virus. You can think of vaccines like a Wanted poster. Vaccines give our…

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Time is of the essence with SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. In order to end this pandemic, we need a faster immune response against SARS-CoV-2 because our adaptive immune system can not respond quickly enough to a SARS-CoV-2 infection. Our Faster Innate Immune Response Our immune system is separated into two major components: an innate immune system…

Vaccines are not enough to end this pandemic because vaccines don’t work fast enough. The fundamental problem with vaccines is they train our adaptive immune system to respond to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Our adaptive immune system is simply too slow to prevent the coronavirus from spreading. …

COVID-19 has clearly been hitting minority communities harder. The numbers are so strikingly unequal, they’ve made headlines across the world in the Washington Post, NY Times, LA Times, Politico, CNN, and BBC News. Socio-economic factors are the most commonly cited reason for why Black, African American, Hispanic, and Latino communities…

The current coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is caused by a virus, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome CoronaVirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). SARS-CoV-2 is related to its predecessor, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-1), which caused the SARS outbreak between 2002 and 2004. [1] After the SARS-CoV-1 outbreak, research into antiviral compounds against coronaviruses indicated…