Using an approach based on computer vision technology, researchers can work back from COVID-19 mortality data to see how infection rates changed on the day a lockdown or similar measure was introduced. The approach could ...
Jul 14, 2023
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New research on rural New Englanders shows that gardening, hunting, fishing and other HWFP activities are important tools for maintaining food security through extreme events, such as pandemics or climate change events.
Feb 13, 2024
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Elucidating human contact networks could help predict and prevent the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and future pandemic threats. A new study from Scripps Research scientists and collaborators points to which public health protocols ...
Dec 14, 2023
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COVID-19 vaccines and drugs were developed at "warp speed" and now experts are concerned about the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) inadequate surveillance of clinical trial sites, reports an investigation published ...
Nov 16, 2022
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Understanding the global transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is critical for rapidly containing and handling the virus, especially as new variants and mutations of concern emerge. Certain regions in the world, including the Middle ...
Aug 15, 2022
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Fourteen-day quarantine measures imposed on incoming travelers returning to England in summer 2020 helped prevent the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, particularly among 16-20 year olds, say a team led by Cambridge scientists.
Feb 23, 2022
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Local COVID-19 transmission was underway in California, New York, Florida and Texas well before the first reported U.S. case in Washington state on Jan. 20, 2020, according to a new study published in Nature, which indicates ...
Dec 8, 2021
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Relaxing restrictions like mask-wearing and social distancing when most people have been vaccinated greatly increases the risk of vaccine-resistant variants of the virus that causes COVID-19, new research showed on Friday.
Jul 30, 2021
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The rapid spread of the Alpha variant of COVID-19 resulted from biological changes in the virus and was enhanced by large numbers of infected people "exporting" the variant to multiple parts of the UK, in what the researchers ...
Jul 22, 2021
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People dreaming of travel post-COVID-19 now have some scientific data to support their wanderlust.
Jan 4, 2021
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