The Latest Science on How to Keep COVID-19 Out of School Classrooms
Open windows, use glass screens in front of desks; Aerosol spread of virus in classrooms with air conditioning poses issues for students, teachers. As the…
Open windows, use glass screens in front of desks; Aerosol spread of virus in classrooms with air conditioning poses issues for students, teachers. As the…
A new study led by Marc Veldhoen, principal investigator at Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes (iMM; Portugal) with an interdisciplinary team of clinicians…
New metrics and forecasting models are key to understanding and anticipating the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally disrupted U.S. healthcare…
Scientists have estimated that the age of an individual does not indicate how likely they are to be infected by SARS-CoV-2. However, development of symptoms,…
The reusable mask would include a heated copper mesh that’s powered by a battery and surrounded by insulating neoprene. Face masks have been shown to…
Fewer New Yorkers are dying from the coronavirus than health experts had anticipated, a new study shows. Regional death rates have dropped from the highs…
Two separate studies have documented the persistence of antibodies that target SARS-CoV-2 in hundreds of patients with COVID-19 at least 3 months after symptom onset….
Researchers at Uppsala University have developed a new method to determine — rapidly, easily and cheaply — how effective two antibiotics combined can be in…
Certain oral antiseptics and mouthwashes may have the ability to inactivate human coronaviruses, according to a Penn State College of Medicine research study. The results…
As the coronavirus has affected more than 30 million people globally, researchers have increasingly focused on the extent to which airborne respiratory droplets carrying the…
Canadian researchers create method to measure severity of the pandemic virus. When COVID-19 attacks, the immune system produces a cytokine, or protein, called Interleukin-6 (IL-6),…
There’s considerable risk that humans transmit SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, to wildlife, according to a perspective article published in Mammal Review. The authors…
McMaster University researchers who analyzed thousands of documents covering a 300-year span of plague outbreaks in London, England, have estimated that the disease spread four…
Like a cold front that moves in, setting the stage for severe weather, coronavirus infection triggers showers of infection-fighting immune molecules — showers that sometimes…
While most COVID-19 cases are asymptomatic or mild, severe complications associated with acute respiratory distress have led to more than one million deaths worldwide in…
Why are some people more resilient to viruses than others? The answer has eluded scientists for centuries and, in the age of COVID-19, has come…
Coronavirus uses enzymatic cutter for virus production and to disable essential immune proteins. American and Polish scientists, reporting October 16, 2020, in the journal Science…
Blocking Immune System Pathway May Stop COVID-19 Infection, Prevent Severe Organ Damage While the world waits eagerly for a safe and effective vaccine to prevent…