Antibodies Fade Quickly in Recovering COVID-19 Patients
In the absence of approved, effective treatments for COVID-19, some hospitals have been treating patients with severe COVID symptoms with blood plasma from recovering patients….
In the absence of approved, effective treatments for COVID-19, some hospitals have been treating patients with severe COVID symptoms with blood plasma from recovering patients….
In a new COVID-19 clinical trial, UC Davis Health tests the same REGN-COV2 antibody combination given to President Trump. In a new clinical trial, UC…
A large, international study of COVID-19 patients confirmed that cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, congestive heart failure, chronic kidney disease, stroke, and cancer can increase a…
Individuals with blood type O may have lowest risk of infection; individuals with A and AB may have increased risk of severe clinical outcomes. Two…
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill scientists reveal potential of swine coronavirus jumping from animals to people. New research from the University of North…
The vast majority of SARS-CoV-2 transmission occurs indoors, most of it from the inhalation of airborne particles that contain the coronavirus. The best way to…
States that reopened sooner, such as Texas, Arizona, and Florida, experienced summer surges, report says. For every two deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the U.S.,…
Virologists at the Rega Institute have shown that the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine does not limit SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus replication in hamsters. A high dose of the…
Researchers at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, have found that SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, can survive for up to 28 days on common…
The pilot project is designed to determine if wastewater testing can provide early signals about the spread of the virus. Last week, MIT began piloting…
Front-line health workers had similar infection rates whether they took a daily regimen of hydroxychloroquine or not. In a clinical trial testing whether a daily…
President Donald Trump’s announcement that he’d tested positive for COVID-19 was especially concerning because of his age. At 74 years old, Trump is solidly within…
Being previously infected with coronaviruses that cause the “common cold” may decrease the severity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infections, according to the…
The preprints selected for review in Rapid Reviews: COVID-19 (RR:C19), an open-access overlay journal published by the MIT Press, cover a wide range of…
Patients of Black ethnicity have an increased risk of requiring hospital admission for COVID-19, while patients of Asian ethnicity have an increased risk of dying…
Cardiff University mathematician proposes new technique to drastically increase the amount of testing for COVID-19. A mathematician from Cardiff University has developed a new method…
A new study by Simon Fraser University (SFU) researchers has found clear evidence that wearing a mask can have a significant impact on the spread…
Analysis of samples taken to test for respiratory viruses over the past five years suggests that the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 was associated with a large…