Do At-Home COVID-19 Tests Detect Omicron? Can You Get Different Variants at Once?
At-home rapid COVID-19 tests are getting harder to find leading up to the Christmas holiday. Adding to the confusion, new preliminary information that suggests some…
Infectious Diseases
New Study Finds COVID-19 Vaccine Protection Declines After Just Three Months
The protection offered by the Oxford-Astra Zeneca Covid-19 vaccine declines after three months of receiving two doses, a study says. The findings – drawn from…
COVID-19 Infections in Nursing Homes: New Simulation Model for Optimal Prevention and Vaccination Strategies
Austrian researchers developed detailed epidemiological model for the spread of the coronavirus in nursing homes. Researchers from TU Graz and Complexity Science Hub (CSH) Vienna…
Innovative X-Ray Imaging Directly Shows COVID-19 Can Cause Vascular Damage to the Heart
Interdisciplinary research team from Göttingen University and Hannover Medical School are first to prove this directly. An interdisciplinary research team from the University of Göttingen…
FDA Approval of Long-Acting Injectable Drug Marks Pivotal Expansion of HIV Prevention Options
On December 20, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced its first approval of a long-acting HIV prevention medication. Developed by ViiV Healthcare, the…
Easy-To-Take Antiretroviral Medicine Better at Suppressing HIV in Children
A once-a-day antiretroviral medicine that is low-cost and easy for children to take is also more effective at suppressing HIV than standard treatments, according to…
Immune System Memory Less Durable After Severe COVID-19
UT Health San Antonio researchers compared results in less-severe and severe COVID-19 cases one and five months after symptom onset. Infection-fighting B cells retain better…
Weight Loss in Patients With Obesity Can Significantly Reduce Risk of Severe COVID-19 Complications
Successful weight-loss intervention before infection associated with 60% lower risk of severe disease in patients with obesity. A Cleveland Clinic study shows that among patients…
COVID Kidney Damage: Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Infects the Kidneys and Contributes to Tissue Scarring
The Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 infects the kidneys and contributes to tissue scarring, as shown by researchers from the RWTH Uniklinik Aachen, Germany, and Radboudumc, The Netherlands….
COVID-19 Omicron FAQ: Is It a “Super-Variant?” Can It Evade Vaccines? How Transmissible Is It?
Omicron, the first COVID-19 variant to have been upgraded to a variant of concern (VOC) by the World Health Organization (WHO) in a matter of…
Fully Vaccinated Individuals at Risk for COVID Infection With Omicron Variant – Columbia Study
New Study Adds More Evidence for Omicron Immune Evasion Results suggest that previously infected individuals and fully vaccinated individuals are at risk for infection with…
Single Dose of China’s Ad5-nCoV COVID-19 Vaccine Is Safe and Effective in Phase 3 Trial
The Ad5-nCoV vaccine, developed in China, is 57.5% effective against symptomatic COVID-19 infection and 91.7% effective against severe COVID-19 beginning 28 days post-vaccination, according to…
Active COVID-19 Infection – By at Least Three Virus Variants – Detected in Wild Deer in 6 Ohio Locations
Scientists unsure if wild deer could be SARS-CoV-2 virus reservoir. Scientists have detected infection by at least three variants of the virus that causes COVID-19…
Genomic Sequencing: How Researchers Identify COVID-19 Variants Like Delta and Omicron
How do scientists detect new variants of the virus that causes COVID-19? The answer is a process called DNA sequencing. Researchers sequence DNA to determine…
Your Likely Order of COVID-19 Symptoms Depends on the Variant
The most likely order of symptoms that COVID-19 patients experience is different for different variants of the virus, according to a new study published on…
O My, Here’s Omicron – Experts Share Their Thoughts on the New COVID-19 Variant
UC Riverside experts share their thoughts on the new COVID-19 variant. The heavily mutated variant of COVID-19, named Omicron by the World Health Organization, or…
New Study: Breakthrough Infections Generate “Super Immunity” to COVID-19
COVID-19 vaccination provides a foundation of protection that’s enhanced by breakthrough infection; ‘the key is to get vaccinated.’ Breakthrough infections greatly enhance immune response to…
MIT Quantum COVID Sensor May Offer Faster, Cheaper, and More Accurate Detection of SARS-CoV-2
Sensor Based on Quantum Physics Could Detect SARS-CoV-2 Virus Mathematical simulations show the new approach may offer faster, cheaper, and more accurate detection, including identifying…