The Download: monkeypox detection in wastewater, and China’s tycoon control

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Wastewater could help us more accurately detect monkeypox The news: Last month, Stanford’s Sewer Coronavirus Alert Network, or SCAN, added monkeypox to the suite of viruses it checks wastewater for daily. Since then,…

White House to hold summit on next-gen COVID-19 vaccines

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The White House wants to accelerate the development of next-generation COVID-19 vaccines, Stat News reported Monday. Ideally, future vaccines would offer longer-lasting protection against infection with and transmission of the virus, not just serious illness and death. Federal officials, researchers, and representatives from pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Moderna…