Bruce Lab

“Whether prior infection with a seasonal coronavirus confers protection from SARS-CoV-2 is still not a settled question”

“’A small percentage of a big number is still a big number,’ said Emily Bruce […]. Variations are ‘a function of the number of people and number of infections and cycles of replication the virus is going through’.”

“While it may be true that ‘you’re more likely to die of influenza right now,’ that is really the wrong way to look at the question. It’s more important to ask, ‘What will the situation look like three months from now if we do nothing?’”

“Bacteria can replicate without a host cell, but viruses require some kind of host to replicate, explained Emily Bruce”