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16/08/2021

Archive: 16/08/2021

Wildfire smoke may have contributed to thousands of extra COVID-19 cases and deaths in the western US in 2020

Thousands of COVID-19 cases and deaths in California, Oregon, and Washington between March and December 2020 may be attributable to increases in fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) from wildfire smoke, according to a new ...

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Immune response to SARS-CoV-2 variants investigated

HSE University researchers assessed the effectiveness of the T-cell immune response to 11 variants of SARS-CoV-2. The researchers used their results to develop the T-cell COVID-19 Atlas portal (T-CoV). The findings have been ...

Aug 16, 2021

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Blood clotting may be the root cause of long COVID syndrome

New evidence shows that patients with long COVID syndrome continue to have higher measures of blood clotting, which may help explain their persistent symptoms, such as reduced physical fitness and fatigue.

Aug 16, 2021

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Quantifying risk of cognitive dysfunction among people in drug treatment programs

Michael Copenhaver and Roman Shrestha from the College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources have developed an improved measure for cognitive dysfunction risk for opioid-dependent patients in drug treatment programs.

Aug 16, 2021

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Our on again, off again relationship with masks

As COVID-19's delta variant creates dangerous hotspots of community spread across the country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended that everyone—including the vaccinated—resume mask-wearing ...

Aug 16, 2021

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Rat poison is just one of the potentially dangerous substances likely to be mixed into illicit drugs

Over 150 people in Illinois started bleeding uncontrollably after using synthetic cannabis-based products—including fake marijuana, Spice and K2—that contained the rat poison brodifacoum in March and April 2018. By the ...

Aug 16, 2021

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Sharing vaccines between nations: A mathematical approach

New research from the University of Oxford and the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, published today in Frontiers in Public Health, uses mathematical modeling to determine the most equitable way to share vaccines between ...

Aug 16, 2021

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Molecular mechanisms of COVID drug candidate Molnupiravir unraveled

The United States recently secured 1.7 million doses of a compound that could help to treat COVID-19 patients. In preliminary studies, Molnupiravir reduced the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Researchers at the ...

Aug 16, 2021

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Deciphering the symptoms of long COVID-19 is slow and painstaking, for both sufferers and their physicians

My first patient that day was a woman in her early 40s, an avid marathon runner who had contracted COVID-19 in March 2020. Now, 13 months later, she noted that she still felt fatigued and short of breath. She also noticed ...

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Why lotteries, doughnuts and beer aren't the right vaccination 'nudges'

Money, doughnuts and beer. As high-tech and effective as our COVID vaccines are, getting enough people to take them to achieve herd immunity may come down to some very Homer Simpson-esque tools of persuasion.

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