Emerging viruses can adversely affect women's health, leading to an increase in both complications and deaths during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium. This is indicated by a population-based natural experiment on ...
Nov 29, 2021
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COVID-19 is not the flu. The disease caused by the novel SARS-CoV-2 virus is more transmissible, and deadlier, than most influenza epidemics we've encountered in our lifetimes, and scientists and physicians are still learning ...
Oct 14, 2021
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The roadmap offers a powerful opportunity to leverage revolutionary advances in vaccine science and technology to better protect against influenza, a disease that could cause a pandemic even worse than COVID-19
Oct 1, 2021
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To explain why the coronavirus pandemic is much worse in the U.S. than anywhere else in the world, commentators have blamed the federal government's mismanaged response and the lack of leadership from the Trump White House.
Aug 31, 2020
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Adults with obesity are more susceptible to influenza A/H1N1pdm—the swine flu virus, according to a new study that did not, however, find a similar association with the seasonal flu.
Jul 10, 2020
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Tensions over border closures are in the news again, now states are gradually lifting travel restrictions to all except Victorians.
Jul 2, 2020
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Researchers from UCLA, Harvard Medical School and the University of Tokyo found that during a recent six-year period, homeless people in New York state were more likely to hospitalized and treated with mechanical ventilators ...
Jun 18, 2020
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The United States plans to give priority to the elderly, those with pre-existing conditions and essential workers once there is a vaccine against COVID-19, a senior Trump administration official said Tuesday.
Jun 16, 2020
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British cancer doctor Prof Karol Sikora recently claimed that the current COVID-19 pandemic would "burn itself out". His thinking is that if there are more infections than we realise, and that those milder, unrecorded infections ...
Jun 5, 2020
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People have turned to historical experience with influenza pandemics to try to make sense of COVID-19, and for good reason.
Jun 4, 2020
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