New MIT Model Could Help Determine Quarantine Measures Needed to Reduce COVID-19’s Spread
A key finding: Early reopening last spring led to a dramatic drop in “quarantine strength” in southern and west-central U.S. states. Some of the research…
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Biggest Vaccination Effort in U.S. History, yet Some States May Lack Facilities for Administering COVID-19 Vaccine to Residents
University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy and West Health Policy Center develop mapping-tool to identify counties where residents may face access issues. As the biggest…
Scientists Develop System for Visualizing Breath to Provide Insights Into COVID-19 Transmission
System provides practical method for measuring how breath travels when people talk or sing. A new method for visualizing breath that is exhaled while someone…
Skyrocketing Suicides Were Predicted During First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic – Here’s What Johns Hopkins Researchers Actually Found
In a study that looked at suicide deaths during 2020’s first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Maryland, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers found that, contrary…
A Frightening New Explanation for the Lack of Blood Oxygenation in Many COVID-19 Patients
One of the physiopathological characteristics of COVID-19 that has most baffled the scientific and medical community is what is known as “silent hypoxemia” or “happy…
Lung Ultrasounds Could Help Physicians Predict if a Patient With COVID-19 Will Worsen
For some, COVID-19 can result in severe pneumonia or even death, while others remain purely asymptomatic. A diagnostic tool could help physicians predict if a…
Pneumolysis: High Altitude Specialists Explain COVID-19 Lung Destruction
The article by Dr. Gustavo R. Zubieta-Calleja and colleagues in published as open access in Reviews on Recent Clinical Trials, 2020. The current COVID-19 pandemic…
Existing FDA Approved Drug Shown to Prevent Lung Damage in COVID Patients
In what has the potential to significantly change how Corona patients are being treated and the severity of the disease, research spearheaded at Jerusalem’s Hebrew…
Secondary Bloodstream Infections Associated With Severe COVID-19 and Worse Health Outcomes
People with severe COVID-19 who had secondary bloodstream infections were sicker, had longer hospital stays and worse health outcomes, Rutgers study finds. People with severe…
With COVID-19 Exacerbating the Threat of Superbugs, Researchers ID New Chemical Weapon
Study identifies novel compound in fight against antibiotic resistance. As scientists around the globe wage war against a novel, deadly virus, one University of Colorado…
This Anti-COVID Mask Breaks the Mold: Rechargeable N95 Mask With a Custom Fit
Scientists from Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley have designed a rechargeable N95 mask with a custom fit. In the early days of the pandemic, amidst…
First Global Atlas of How the COVID Coronavirus Interacts With Human Cells
Scientists from Würzburg and the US have charted the first global atlas of direct interactions between SARS-CoV-2 RNA and human host cells. This may provide…
Researchers Report That Traditional Model for Disease Spread May Not Work With COVID-19
A mathematical model that can help project the contagiousness and spread of infectious diseases like the seasonal flu may not be the best way to…
COVID-19 Severity Affected by Proportion of Antibodies in Immune Response Targeting Crucial Viral Protein
COVID-19 antibodies preferentially target a different part of the virus in mild cases of COVID-19 than they do in severe cases, and wane significantly within…
Protein Storytelling to Address the COVID-19 Pandemic
New computational tools developed at Stony Brook University help characterize protein structures and identify new treatments for COVID-19. In the last five decades, we’ve learned…
Real Hope for Vaccine Longevity: New Data Reveals COVID Immunity Lasts Up to 8 Months
Australian researchers have revealed — for the first time — that people who have been infected with the COVID-19 virus have immune memory to protect…
At-Home “Scratch-and-Sniff” Test for COVID-19 May Be Around the Corner
A self-administered ‘scratch-and-sniff’ test for COVID-19 may be around the corner, according to researchers at Penn State, the University of Florida, and Arizona State University….
Wearing COVID-19 Face Coverings Around Kids Doesn’t Mask Your Emotions
The proliferation of face coverings to keep COVID-19 in check isn’t keeping kids from understanding facial expressions, according to a new study by University of…