Pulmonologist outlines factors that could determine severity of ’20/’21 flu season. As if the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t scary enough, flu season is not far away. How…
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Fits of the data for active cases available on 08 May 2020 for various severely affected countries around the world. Credit: Constantino Tsallis and Ugur…
Many people are wondering if that bad cold they had back in February or March was actually the new coronavirus. In principle, an antibody test…
Study outlines key immunological factors underlying COVID-19 disease progression and proposes a range of drugs that may be repurposed to treat the disease. Due to…
Study Shows Domestic Violence Reports on the Rise As COVID-19 Keeps People at Home UCLA-led analysis of calls to police in LA, Indianapolis also shows…
More than 8 out of 10 cruise ship passengers testing positive for infection had no symptoms. The prevalence of ‘silent’ symptomless COVID-19 infection may be…
In a study published this month in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientists in the U.S. and Japan report that in the laboratory, cats…
The evidence shows that cloth masks, particularly those with several layers of cotton cloth, block droplet, and aerosol contamination of the environment, which may reduce…
Researchers have developed a deep-learning model that maps fuel moisture levels in fine detail across 12 western states, opening a door for better fire predictions.…
Mechanical science and engineering professor Taher Saif, right, and students Onur Aydin, left, and Bashar Emon test common household fabrics used to make face masks…
The electroceutical surface technology, called V.Dox Technology, is a proprietary dot-matrix pattern of embedded microcell batteries that create an electric field and wirelessly generate a…
Scientists from the UK, Europe and the USA, including experts from the University of Birmingham, have published a vitamin D consensus paper warning against high…
The microfluidic device to which 20 μL of samples containing 2 μL of serum will be applied. Credit: Nishiyama K. et al., Sensors and Actuators…
Inner and outer view of an N95 mask between dry heat treatment cycles showing no deformation of the respirator. A thermocouple is affixed to the…
Colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (pink) heavily infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (green), isolated from a patient sample. Image captured at the…
Contact tracing determines who a person diagnosed with COVID-19 has encountered while possibly infectious. University of Chicago computer scientist Blase Ur examines smartphone tracking during…
A replaceable nanoporous membrane, illustrated above, attached to an N95 mask filters out particles the size of SARS-CoV-2 (purple circles), allowing only clean air (blue…
The coronavirus neutralizing antibody, called S309, is on an accelerated path toward clinical trials. An antibody first identified in a blood sample from a patient…
Women and older adults are the populations most vulnerable to high temperatures. A new study by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a center…
Saliva droplets can travel large distances, depending on environmental conditions such as wind speed, temperature, pressure and humidity. Wind shown blowing left to right at…