Leading Ethicist: Pay People to Get COVID-19 Vaccine to Ensure Widespread Coverage
Good uptake (8 out of 10 people) will likely be needed to achieve herd immunity through vaccination. Governments should consider incentivizing people to get a…
Good uptake (8 out of 10 people) will likely be needed to achieve herd immunity through vaccination. Governments should consider incentivizing people to get a…
New research reveals that tinnitus, a common condition that causes the perception of noise in the ear and head, is being exacerbated by COVID-19 —…
Using “lab on a chip” technology, Stanford engineers have created a microlab half the size of a credit card that can detect COVID-19 in just…
A recent study by Estonian researchers at University of Tartu explains how coronavirus is activated before attacking the cell and what could help to impede…
Blood clots continue to wreak havoc for patients with severe COVID-19 infection, and a new study explains what may spark them in up to half…
The ability of SARS-CoV-2 to infect cells depends on interactions between the viral spike protein and the human cell surface protein ACE2. To enable the…
Investigations of deceased COVID-19 patients have shed light on possible lung damage caused by the virus. The study, published today (November 3, 2020) in The…
At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, there were high hopes that hot summer temperatures could reduce its spread. Although summer didn’t bring widespread relief,…
Brigham investigators have identified patients who cleared the disease faster and had a persistent antibody response, with important implications for immunity. One of the pressing…
Dispersion of large, medium, small airborne cough droplets in various outdoor conditions. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has led many researchers to study airborne droplet transmission…
Letting an algorithm decide which maintenance holes to test for evidence of coronavirus could improve pandemic containment efforts. COVID-19 is a respiratory illness that spreads…
‘Mini-lungs’ grown from tissue donated to Cambridge hospitals has provided a team of scientists from South Korea and the UK with important insights into how…
In a recent study, NYU Abu Dhabi faculty Alberto Gandolfi proposes alternate weeks of in-classroom and remote teaching as a way to allow students to…
The coronavirus doesn’t spread uniformly through a community. But in the world of disease modeling, many projections take a high-level approach to a geographic area,…
The inherent randomness of contacts between infected and healthy individuals enhances the benefit of dividing a population into smaller communities for the control of epidemics….
When Dr. Stephen Smith of Seattle Children’s Research Institute came down with muscle aches, gastrointestinal distress, and a sudden loss of smell in late February,…
New election model treats political influence like a contagion. New model treats decided voters as ‘infected’ and undecided voters as ‘susceptible’ to infection Democratic and…
To better understand how the novel coronavirus behaves and how it can be stopped, scientists have completed a three-dimensional map that reveals the location of…