New metrics and forecasting models are key to understanding and anticipating the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally disrupted U.S. healthcare…
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Scientists have estimated that the age of an individual does not indicate how likely they are to be infected by SARS-CoV-2. However, development of symptoms,…
A team of researchers from MIT now hopes to go one step further than conventional masks that filter out viruses and create a mask that…
Fewer New Yorkers are dying from the coronavirus than health experts had anticipated, a new study shows. Regional death rates have dropped from the highs…
There’s considerable risk that humans transmit SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, to wildlife, according to a perspective article published in Mammal Review. Credit: Sophie…
Air pollution was significantly associated with an increased risk of hospital admissions for several neurological disorders, including Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and other dementias, in…
Journal of the American College of Cardiology focus seminar looks at history of COVID-19, plus relationship with cardiometabolic syndrome, myocardial injury, and arrhythmias. Since the…
Proposed structure of Bi-bound zinc-binding domain of SARS-CoV-2 helicase. Through kicking out the crucial zinc(II) ions in the zinc-binding domain of SARS-CoV-2 helicase, RBC demonstrated…
Colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (red) infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (yellow), isolated from a patient sample. Image captured at the NIAID…
Transmission electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles isolated from a patient. Image captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility in Fort Detrick, Maryland.…
Test could inform doctors on best treatment options. Scientists have developed, for the first time, a score that can accurately predict which patients will develop…
Countries with international travel restrictions suffered fewer COVID-19 fatalities. Travel restrictions implemented early on in the pandemic have been crucial in slowing the spread of…
In the absence of approved, effective treatments for COVID-19, some hospitals have been treating patients with severe COVID symptoms with blood plasma from recovering patients.…
President Donald J. Trump on Sunday, October 4, 2020, in his conference room at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. Credit: Official…
Individuals with blood type O may have lowest risk of infection; individuals with A and AB may have increased risk of severe clinical outcomes. Two…
President Donald J. Trump works in the Presidential Suite at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, MD on Saturday, October 3, 2020, after…
Being previously infected with coronaviruses that cause the “common cold” may decrease the severity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infections, according to the…
The preprints selected for review in Rapid Reviews: COVID-19 (RR:C19), an open-access overlay journal published by the MIT Press, cover a wide range of…
Patients of Black ethnicity have an increased risk of requiring hospital admission for COVID-19, while patients of Asian ethnicity have an increased risk of dying…
Cardiff University mathematician proposes new technique to drastically increase the amount of testing for COVID-19. A mathematician from Cardiff University has developed a new method…