Frailty, not just age, significantly increases the risk of death and long-term care needs in…
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Waning immunity may heighten risk, but milder reinfection may follow severe infection. It may be…
Colchicine worth adding to standard treatment for moderate to severe infection, says researchers. Colchicine, a…
Social Distancing Helps Others—and Protects You, Too Considering the greater good by social distancing during…
MIT economist works to show how therapies can be allocated fairly; states are now applying…
esearchers found thapsigargin effectively combats COVID-19, flu, and RSV by boosting immune response. It’s stable,…
Study found mortality was driven by age, severity of disease and the presence and extent…
Editor’s note: Varghese Mathai is a physicist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who studies…
A hybrid forecast model predicted 125,000 fewer U.S. COVID deaths in 2021 if half the…
Multipronged BU research team finds 18 FDA-approved drugs that could halt coronavirus infection earlier. What…
Study indicates that some vitamins, steroids and antivirals could bind to the Spike protein, and…
Seasonal Variation May Be Explained by New Year’s Resolutions Marijuana use increases throughout the calendar…
The method analyzes saliva samples and delivers results in about 10 minutes. Researchers at the…
COVID-19 variants may spread more easily and resist some antibodies, but current vaccines still protect…
Pregnant women with COVID-19 produce protective antibodies, but their transfer to infants is limited. Research…
New West Health-Gallup survey finds new president faces a frustrated public reeling from pandemic, economic…
Open-source model is shared to help medics around the world case of ventilator shortfalls. As…
New nanofiber swabs increase COVID-19 test sensitivity by detecting the virus at much lower concentrations…