COVID-19 and Novel Coronavirus Updates

NCSE answers questions about coronavirus for teachers.

Winding road
Winding road
Omicron: don’t lose heart, it’s not a Charlie-Brown-and-the-football situation
Delta variant
Delta variant
Where did the Delta variant come from and what will happen next?
Moderna vaccine
Moderna vaccine
It’s time for another “Don’t Jump the Gun” reminder
wedding cake
wedding cake
Remember when we said “Don’t jump the gun”? We need to say it again
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Chat bubble
How to talk to people with vaccine hesitancy: epilogue
My Father's Dragon - rhino brushing his horn
My Father's Dragon - rhino brushing his horn
Why mRNA vaccines can’t change your genome: a lesson from Elmer Elevator
SARS-CoV-2
SARS-CoV-2
What’s going on with the B.1.1.7 variant?
Moderna vaccine
Moderna vaccine
How to talk to people with vaccine hesitancy
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A sedan and a sports car side by side
Any of the vaccines will do
How quickly we forget. When the coronavirus pandemic started, public health experts warned that vaccines were unlikely to become available for years. Having vaccines within 18 months was considered a wildly optimistic estimate. (Those experts were not just being killjoys—ensuring that a vaccine is…