The Latest on COVID-19

Updated on March 3, 2022 at 3:00 p.m. PST

The U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is calling for more data on the spread of COVID-19 misinformation. Murthy has put in a Request for Information from the general public to report on instances of COVID-19 misinformation.
One day after his State of the Union address, the Biden Administration released its new COVID-19 Preparedness Plan. The plan specifies initiatives and investments to drive down serious illness and deaths from COVID-19, prepare for potential new variants, and give employers and schools needed resources so they can remain open.
Researchers have found that SARS-CoV-2 can, like other viruses, hide out in our bodies, making it difficult to get rid of it entirely. Kapil Gupta, PhD, senior research associate in biochemistry at the University of Bristol in the U.K., discovered that the coronavirus can evolve in different cell types to adapt its immunity inside a person with the infection.