Carissa Wong
Carissa Wong
Freelance reporter on health, environment, nature, tech. Words @newscientist , Live Science, Nature, MailOnline & more. PhD cancer immunology. She/Her 🏳️‍🌈Source
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Extreme heat harms health — what is the human body’s limit?

Extreme heat harms health — what is the human body’s limit?

This year’s Northern Hemisphere summer has been unlike any other. In July in Mexicali, northern Mexico, temperatures reached a blistering 47 °C, forcing people to remain inside to avoid dizziness and fainting. Across Mexico, a heatwave in June and July killed at least 167 people. In July, a weather station in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region logged 52.2 °C; California’s Death Valley saw a punishing 53.3 °C. And in August, at Iran’s Qeshm Dayrestan airport, high temperatures and humidity combined to create conditions that would kill healthy people in only a few hours. Even moderate heat...

Oct 9
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Covid-19 news: Moderna’s omicron booster has promising immune response

Covid-19 news: Moderna’s omicron booster has promising immune response

×By , , , , , , , , , , , andModerna’s omicron-tailored booster candidate produces eight times as many virus-neutralising antibodies against the variant as its original booster vaccineAn updated version of Moderna’s covid-19 vaccine that targets the BA.1 sublineage of omicron leads to an eight-fold increase in antibody levels against the variant of concern, according to a small, preliminary .Moderna’s new booster is the first covid-19 vaccine to combine the jab that targeted the original strain of the coronavirus – which emerged in Wuhan, China, at the end of 2019 – with a vaccine that...

May 10, 2020
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Covid-19 news: Moderna’s omicron booster has promising immune response

Covid-19 news: Moderna’s omicron booster has promising immune response

×By , , , , , , , , , , , andModerna’s omicron-tailored booster candidate produces eight times as many virus-neutralising antibodies against the variant as its original booster vaccineAn updated version of Moderna’s covid-19 vaccine that targets the BA.1 sublineage of omicron leads to an eight-fold increase in antibody levels against the variant of concern, according to a small, preliminary .Moderna’s new booster is the first covid-19 vaccine to combine the jab that targeted the original strain of the coronavirus – which emerged in Wuhan, China, at the end of 2019 – with a vaccine that...

April 9, 2021
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Covid-19 news: Moderna’s omicron booster has promising immune response

Covid-19 news: Moderna’s omicron booster has promising immune response

×By , , , , , , , , , , , andModerna’s omicron-tailored booster candidate produces eight times as many virus-neutralising antibodies against the variant as its original booster vaccineAn updated version of Moderna’s covid-19 vaccine that targets the BA.1 sublineage of omicron leads to an eight-fold increase in antibody levels against the variant of concern, according to a small, preliminary .Moderna’s new booster is the first covid-19 vaccine to combine the jab that targeted the original strain of the coronavirus – which emerged in Wuhan, China, at the end of 2019 – with a vaccine that...

February 20, 2021
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Covid-19 news: Moderna’s omicron booster has promising immune response

Covid-19 news: Moderna’s omicron booster has promising immune response

×By , , , , , , , , , , , andModerna’s omicron-tailored booster candidate produces eight times as many virus-neutralising antibodies against the variant as its original booster vaccineAn updated version of Moderna’s covid-19 vaccine that targets the BA.1 sublineage of omicron leads to an eight-fold increase in antibody levels against the variant of concern, according to a small, preliminary .Moderna’s new booster is the first covid-19 vaccine to combine the jab that targeted the original strain of the coronavirus – which emerged in Wuhan, China, at the end of 2019 – with a vaccine that...

April 25, 2020
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