Tag: variants
Google Search & Shopping, Product Variants And A Gap To Bridge
“A gap to bridge… What gap, what bridge?”
Relax; give me a moment. I have not said a word yet.
Let me first clarify the entities this article revolves around so that you understand who and what I am actually talking about:
- Google Search: Just plain old Google Search as we have known it since 1998.
- Google Shopping: A Google service that allows you to search, view, and compare products since 2010.
- Google Merchant Center (GMC): A platform that, since
San Francisco airport will monitor plane waste for COVID-19 variants
International travelers can now contribute valuable data to COVID-19 surveillance efforts in the United States from above the clouds.
San Francisco International Airport has launched a new program to test airplane wastewater for variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, the airport announced May 9. The program is the first in the country to continuously monitor sewage from airplanes, after previous studies demonstrated the potential value of this work.
Airplane wastewater is a key source for COVID-19 surveillance because
Is COVID Immunity Hung Up on Old Variants?
In the two-plus years that COVID vaccines have been available in America, the basic recipe has changed just once. The virus, meanwhile, has belched out five variants concerning enough to earn their own Greek-letter names, followed by a menagerie of weirdly monikered Omicron subvariants, each seeming to spread faster than the last. Vaccines, which take months to reformulate, just can’t keep up with a virus that seems to reinvent itself by the week.
But SARS-CoV-2’s evolutionary sprint might not be
Why omicron is more infectious than other coronavirus variants
In November, a new coronavirus variant took the world by storm. Omicron has since caused an unprecedented wave of infections, striking about 90 million people in just 10 weeks. That’s more COVID-19 cases than were recorded in all of 2020.
Omicron also left scientists scratching their heads. It’s riddled with mutations, which might normally doom a virus. Early experiments showed that omicron wasn’t nearly as good as the previous coronavirus variant champ, delta, at melding with a cell’s membrane —
Jordan Klepper hält die Anti-Vaxxer-Hits in der “New Variants Edition” bereit
In einer fortlaufenden Serie sammelte Klepper die besten Reaktionen von Anti-Impf-Kundgebungen, an denen er teilnahm. “The Daily Show” hat am Montag die “New Variants Edition” online gestellt, während das Comedy-Central-Programm eine Ferienpause einlegt.
Einige der Anti-Vaxxer-Überlegungen könnten Sie dazu bringen, Ihren Weihnachtseierlikör auszuspucken. Eine Person behauptete, sie habe nach der Impfung mehr Menschen im Krankenhaus gesehen. Ein anderer sagte, er beziehe seine Informationen aus qualifizierten Quellen wie „Mundpropaganda“ und dem Bioladen.
Aber das vielleicht beste Geschenk in dieser Zusammenstellung ist,
Coronavirus Variants Can’t Survive on Speed Forever
If evolution is a numbers game, the coronavirus is especially good at playing it. Over the past year and a half, it’s copied itself quickly and sloppily in hundreds of millions of hosts, and hit upon a glut of genetic jackpots that further facilitate its spread. Delta, the hyper-contagious variant that has swept the globe in recent months, is undoubtedly one of the virus’s most daring moves to date. This variant is the product of unfettered transmission, and will thrive
Why a Variant’s Deadliness Is So Hard to Define
The coronavirus is on a serious self-improvement kick. Since infiltrating the human population, SARS-CoV-2 has splintered into hundreds of lineages, with some seeding new, fast-spreading variants. A more infectious version first overtook the OG coronavirus last spring, before giving way to the ultra-transmissible Alpha (B.1.1.7) variant. Now Delta (B.1.617.2), potentially the most contagious contender to date, is poised to usurp the global throne.
Alphabetically, chronologically, the virus is getting better and better at its primary objective: infecting us. And