What COVID is teaching doctors about the relationship between viruses and cancer 2.2%
Los Angeles Times - By Corinne Purtill - 6/15/2026, 10:00 AM
Post Hoc (False Cause) 25.8% - Hasty Generalization 15.1% - Confirmation Bias 7.2%
In early 2022, around the time the Omicron variant started driving a new surge in COVID-19 cases, researchers at James DeGregori’s University of Colorado Anschutz lab noticed something unusual: When lab mice with dormant breast cancer cells were infected with either influenza or SARS-CoV-2, the animals were significantly more likely to... more