Analysis shows coughing, deep breathing and shouting creates more than 100-fold greater amounts of aerosols than oxygen therapies, potentially increasing risk to frontline staff who…
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Including 94,400 more deaths than expected in the UK alone. Almost 1 million extra deaths relating to the covid-19 pandemic occurred in 29 high income…
Invasions by alien insect and animal species have much in common with outbreaks of infectious diseases and could tell us a great deal about how…
A Penn State research team found that the N protein on SARS-CoV-2 is conserved across all SARS-related pandemic coronaviruses (top, from left: SARS-CoV-2, civet, SARS-CoV,…
The suitcase laboratory has already been used successfully for other infectious diseases in Africa. Credit: Dr. Ahmed Abd El Wahed Mobile laboratory for rapid detection…
Hormone Drugs May Disarm COVID-19 Spike, Penn Study Suggests. Credit: Getty Images A new Penn Medicine study shows how anti-androgen drugs disrupt key receptors required…
Chest X-ray from patient severely ill from COVID-19, showing (in white patches) infected tissue spread across the lungs. Credit: Courtesy of Nature Publishing or npj…
Having genetic risk variants in the ABO gene might significantly increase the chances of developing COVID-19, and other genes may also increase COVID-19 risk, according…
The majority of children infected with SARS-CoV-2 may not show typical symptoms such as fever, cough, or shortness of breath, according to a study published…
Research, from Com-COV study comparing mixed dosing schedules of Pfizer / Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines, shows increase in the frequency of mild-moderate symptoms in those receiving either…
Covid-19 patients who receive oxygen therapy or experience fever show reduced gray matter volume in the frontal-temporal network of the brain, according to a new…
Computed tomography of the brain. Patients with clinically diagnosed neurological symptoms associated with COVID-19 are six times more likely to die in the hospital than…
A scanning electron microscope image of a nanotrap (orange) binding a simulated SARS-CoV-2 virus (dots in green). Scientists at the University of Chicago created these…
Smashing the COVID Curve: Little Differences in Behavior Decide Between Success and Complete Failure
Fluid and turbulence physicist Björn Hof and his team applied the statistical methods to epidemic spreading and discovered surprising features of the infection curves. Credit:…
Scientists Martin Hengesbach (left) and Andreas Schlundt at the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer at Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany. Credit: Uwe Dettmar for Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany…
An analysis of blood plasma samples from four people who recovered from SARS-CoV-2 infections shows that most of the antibodies circulating in the blood —…
Massachusetts statewide study showed no significant differences in COVID-19 case rates between K-12 districts that implemented 3-feet versus 6-feet of physical distancing. As COVID-19 infection…
Growing Evidence Points to Unique Infectious Profile A comprehensive review into what we know about COVID-19 and the way it functions suggests the virus has…
Illustration shows the reach of breath without a mask and during various mask and face shield evaluations. Credit: Venugopal Arumuru/Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar Curbing…
More than two-thirds of the public may now have hand dermatitis due to stringent hand washing and using alcohol-based rubs during the COVID-19 pandemic. The…