Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Someone in my house has COVID. How likely am I to catch it?
Throughout the pandemic, one of the biggest COVID risks has been sharing a house with someone who is infectious.
Sep 23, 2022
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News tagged with alpha variant
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
COVID virus' incubation time gets shorter with each new variant
If you get infected with COVID-19, the time from infection to possible onset of symptoms—the incubation period—is significantly shorter now than it was at the beginning of the pandemic, new research shows.
Aug 23, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Prevalence of COVID-19-related croup up during omicron
The proportion of children with COVID-19-related croup was increased during the period of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) omicron predominance compared with alpha or other variant- and delta-predominant ...
Jul 5, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Report: Emergence of the alpha variant did not lead to more severe disease in children admitted to hospital
A new study, published in the journal Paediatric Research, provides evidence that the number of school-age children admitted to hospital with coronavirus did not rise significantly in the second wave of the disease when compared ...
Apr 22, 2022
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Medical research
Different SARS-CoV-2 variants may give rise to different long COVID symptoms, study suggests
New research to be presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Lisbon, Portugal (23–26 April), suggests that the symptoms connected to long COVID could be different ...
Mar 25, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
COVID variant siblings show different levels of virulence
As the world enters a third year of pandemic-related uncertainties, one thing does seem certain: The SARS-CoV-2 virus mutates and keeps us on our toes.
Jan 13, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Vaccination seems less protective against transmission of Delta variant
(HealthDay)—COVID-19 vaccination is associated with a smaller reduction in transmission of the Delta variant compared with the alpha variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), according to ...
Jan 7, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dominant Alpha variant evolved to evade our innate immune system
The SARS-CoV-2 Alpha (B.1.1.7) variant mutated to evade our 'innate immune system', helping establish it as the world's first 'Variant of Concern', finds a new study led by researchers at UCL and the Quantitative Biosciences ...
Dec 23, 2021
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UK study suggests COVID-19 became much more lethal in late 2020
A new statistical analysis supports beliefs that COVID-19 became more lethal in the U.K. in late 2020, while also suggesting that multiple factors—not just the alpha variant of the virus that causes COVID-19—were to blame. ...
Nov 24, 2021
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NIH scientists identify mechanism that may influence infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 variants
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health have found that a process in cells may limit infectivity of SARS-CoV-2, and that mutations in the alpha and delta variants overcome this effect, potentially boosting the virus's ...
Nov 5, 2021
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