COVID Lockdowns Saved Lives of the Old and Sick, While Sacrificing the Young
Lockdowns during early pandemic saved lives, but not a go-to strategy moving forward. The U.S. pandemic lockdown in 2020 caused a $2.3 trillion economic downturn…
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Find the latest scientific news, research reports, and maps related to COVID-19, the infectious disease caused by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China, which is sometimes called 2019-nCoV or SARS-CoV-2. Reports on the outbreak include information from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), World Health Organization (WHO) and European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
Lockdowns during early pandemic saved lives, but not a go-to strategy moving forward. The U.S. pandemic lockdown in 2020 caused a $2.3 trillion economic downturn…
NIH-funded research shows infection can affect male fertility. COVID-19 vaccination does not affect the chances of conceiving a child, according to a study of more…
Study sheds light on COVID virus transmissibility, resistance to host immunity. The virus that causes COVID-19 has adopted some stealth moves to stay alive and…
Daniel Becker, an assistant professor of biology in the University of Oklahoma’s Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences, has been leading a proactive modeling…
Nano-bubble evACE2 fights new variants as well as or better than original strain of virus. Drug can be delivered as nasal spray Acts as decoy…
The BMJ (a weekly peer-reviewed medical trade journal, published by the British Medical Association) has locked horns with Facebook and the gatekeepers of international fact-checking…
Heart recovery began within the first week of diagnosis among children who developed COVID-19-related multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C). Children treated for MIS-C had normal heart…
The heart has played a central role in COVID-19 since the beginning. Cardiovascular conditions are among the highest risk factors for hospitalization. A significant number…
They fall short of minimum criteria set by WHO and US and UK device regulators Findings cast doubt on effectiveness of their use for widespread…
Levels of 14 proteins in the blood of critically ill COVID-19 patients are associated with survival. A single blood sample from a critically ill COVID-19…
One-third of clinical trial participants who received no vaccine reported systemic adverse advents like headache and fatigue. The placebo effect is the well-known phenomenon of…
A new study that evaluated the effectiveness of the BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) vaccine against the Omicron variant indicates that three doses could offer a sufficient level…
One viral protein could provide information to deter pneumonia causing the body’s exaggerated inflammatory response to respiratory viruses, including the virus that causes COVID-19. That…
Masks, social distancing, proper hygiene, and ventilation can help reduce the transmission of COVID-19 in public places, but even with these measures, scientists have detected…
Support for populist parties and politicians, and agreement with populist sentiment, has diminished during the pandemic, according to a “mega-dataset” taking in attitudes of over…
Study found that an antibody, P36-5D2, demonstrated a substantial decrease in infectious virus load in the lungs and brain, and reduced lung disease in laboratory…
A team from UNSW’s Kirby Institute and St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney have uncovered an immune profile for long COVID, potentially paving the way for tailored…
Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering studies hope to find drugs that work against variants. Many treatments for COVID-19 focus on the spike protein that the…