The genetic variation of the novel coronavirus that dominates the world today infects human cells more readily than the original that emerged in China, according to a new study published in the journal Cell on Thursday. The lab-based research […]
Abstract Background: Recommendations on masks for preventing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vary. Purpose: To examine the effectiveness of N95, surgical, and cloth masks in community and health care settings for preventing respiratory virus infections, and effects of reuse or […]
The Atlantic For the past few weeks in the United States, the awful logic of the coronavirus seemed to have lifted. Stores and restaurants reopened. Protesters flocked to the streets. Some people resumed going about their daily lives, and […]
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said the state will put a hold on further reopening as it contends with rising numbers of coronavirus cases and hospitalizations. Updated at 12:45 p.m. ET Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has announced the state will […]
During the first chaotic months of the Covid-19 pandemic, it was already clear that the novel coronavirus spreading around the world didn’t affect everyone equally. The earliest clinical data out of China showed that some people consistently fared worse […]
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Anders Tegnell, the state epidemiologist of the Public Health Agency of Sweden, at a press briefing in April 2020 The epidemiologist who led Sweden’s controversial COVID-19 response, which did not involve a strict lockdown, now says that the country […]
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) occurs after exposure to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). For persons who are exposed, the standard of care is observation and quarantine. Whether hydroxychloroquine can prevent symptomatic infection after SARS-CoV-2 exposure is […]
Patients who died from COVID-19-associated respiratory failure had more intussusceptive angiogenesis in their lungs than those who died from influenza, according to an autopsy study. For the study, which was published in The New England Journal of Medicine , […]
BRAZIL – 2020/03/24: In this photo illustration a Moderna logo seen displayed on a smartphone. Moderna stock is up by about 270% year-to-date, as it emerged a front runner in the race to develop a vaccine for the highly […]
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Mexico City (CNN)For months, Latin America watched the rest of the world suffer as the coronavirus spread. It is a spectator no longer. “This is the new epicenter,” said Dr. Marcos Espinal, director of communicable diseases at the Pan […]
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