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Scientists studying the virus\u2019s continuing evolution, and the body\u2019s immune responses, hope to head off a resurgence and to better understand long Covid.<\/p>\n

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Rat droppings from New York City. Poop from dog parks in Wisconsin. Human waste from a Missouri hospital. These are some of the materials that are readying us for the next chapter of the coronavirus saga.<\/p>\n

More than four years into the pandemic, the virus has loosened its hold on most people\u2019s bodies and minds. But a new variant better able to dodge our immune defenses may yet appear, derailing a hard-won return to normalcy.<\/p>\n

Scientists around the country are watching for the first signs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not in the acute phases of a pandemic anymore, and I think it\u2019s understandable and probably a good thing\u201d that most people, including scientists, have returned to their prepandemic lives, said Jesse Bloom, an evolutionary biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat said, the virus is still evolving, it\u2019s still infecting large numbers of people,\u201d he added. \u201cWe need to keep tracking this.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dr. Bloom and other researchers are trying to understand how the coronavirus behaves and evolves as populations amass immunity. Other teams are probing the body\u2019s response to the infection, including the complex syndrome called long Covid.<\/p>\n

And some scientists have taken on an increasingly difficult task: estimating vaccine effectiveness in a crowded respiratory milieu.<\/p>\n

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Scientists studying the virus\u2019s continuing evolution, and the body\u2019s immune responses, hope to head off a resurgence and to better understand long Covid.Rat droppings from New York City. Poop from dog parks in Wisconsin. Human waste from a Missouri hospital. These are some of the materials that are readying us for the next chapter of the coronavirus saga.More than four years into the pandemic, the virus has loosened its hold on most people\u2019s bodies and minds. But a new variant better able to dodge our immune defenses may yet appear, derailing a hard-won return to normalcy.Scientists around the country are watching for the first signs.\u201cWe\u2019re not in the acute phases of a pandemic anymore, and I think it\u2019s understandable and probably a good thing\u201d that most people, including scientists, have returned to their prepandemic lives, said Jesse Bloom, an evolutionary biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle.\u201cThat said, the virus is still evolving, it\u2019s still infecting large numbers of people,\u201d he added. \u201cWe need to keep tracking this.\u201dDr. Bloom and other researchers are trying to understand how the coronavirus behaves and evolves as populations amass immunity. Other teams are probing the body\u2019s response to the infection, including the complex syndrome called long Covid.And some scientists have taken on an increasingly difficult task: estimating vaccine effectiveness in a crowded respiratory milieu.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2818,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2819,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions\/2819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}