According to researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, the implementation of social distancing policies corresponded with significant reductions in transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and reduced ...
Jul 30, 2020
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A large international team of researchers has conducted a study aimed at tracing the transmission rates and the origin of major SARS-CoV-2 strains currently circulating in Brazil. In their paper published in the journal Science, ...
COVID-19 has slowed in the UK, but despite a drop in transmission rate the epidemic remains likely to continue for months, according to new analysis.
Jun 11, 2020
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veryone is eager to get back to normal life. But what does it mean for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis to be over? It's not a matter of flipping a switch and going back to life as it was before. As long as the virus ...
May 18, 2020
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Britain's overall death toll from the coronavirus outbreak rose by 739 to 27,510 on Friday, as new data indicated that people in disadvantaged areas were worse hit.
May 1, 2020
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New Zealand will begin easing its national lockdown from next Tuesday, but only after a five-day extension of some of the world's strictest COVID-19 restrictions.
Apr 20, 2020
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Can a single COVID-19 patient infect dozens of others? Although transmission rates in the current outbreak appear to be far lower, a variety of factors can lead to an individual infecting many.
Mar 14, 2020
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University researchers finds that scaling up use of methadone and buprenorphine—medications for treating opioid use disorder known as opioid agonist therapies (OATs)—could greatly reduce HIV transmission rates and prevent ...
Jan 3, 2020
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(HealthDay)—Most new HIV transmissions are from people who do not know they have HIV infection or are aware of infection but are not receiving care, according to research published in the March 18 early-release issue of ...
Mar 20, 2019
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New drug-resistant strains of the parasite that causes malaria tend to evolve in regions with a lower risk of malaria. This is because in hard-hit areas with high transmission rates, like sub-Saharan Africa, they get outcompeted ...
Aug 21, 2018
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