Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
How effective are masks during a COVID wave?
Health departments are predicting another COVID surge related, in part, to more easily transmitted new variants and waning immunity.
Jul 20, 2022
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Scientists shed new light on how SARS-CoV-2 evades immune response in early infection
A new study led by Cardiff University has shed light on how the COVID-19 virus "interferes" with the body's initial immune response to avoid detection.
Jul 19, 2022
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Medical research
Coinfection with influenza A could suppress replication in SARS-CoV-2
Coinfection of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza A virus changes neither the trajectory, nor the severity of influenza A virus, regardless of timing. But should the host contract influenza A virus first, the response to that infection ...
Jul 12, 2022
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Human catches COVID from a cat: Why this new evidence is not cause for panic
Since the pandemic began, there have been several documented cases of humans transmitting SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, to their pets. But the reverse has been rarer—until recently, hamsters, mink and white-tailed ...
Jul 12, 2022
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Infectivity of airborne SARS-CoV-2 could decrease by 90% within 20 minutes of exhalation
The SARS-CoV-2 virus can lose 90% of infectivity when in aerosol particles within 20 minutes, according to new University of Bristol findings. The study, published in the journal of the Proceedings of the National Academy ...
Jun 29, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
The surprising link between SARS-CoV-2 infection and new-onset diabetes
It has become abundantly clear that coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19), despite being transmitted by breathing in the SARS-CoV-2 virus, can have harmful effects far beyond the lungs. Now, researchers from Japan have identified ...
Jun 27, 2022
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Immunology
Dried samples of saliva and fingertip blood are useful in monitoring responses to coronavirus vaccines
In a study by the University of Helsinki and HUS Helsinki University Hospital, the levels of antibodies associated with the SARS-CoV-2 virus were analyzed in more than 1,200 employees in the social welfare and health care ...
Jun 17, 2022
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Infectious disease expert shares outlook on virus, vaccines and treatment
More than two years since the COVID-19 global pandemic began, the SARS-CoV-2 virus continues its rampage through rapidly evolving mutations and gaps in population immunity. But the outlook for managing COVID-19 is brighter ...
Jun 15, 2022
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The coronavirus epidemic of 2020 in Finland began with five virus lineages
The COVID-19 pandemic began at the end of 2019 in Wuhan, China. Since then, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has spread rapidly despite attempts to restrict it. By mid-April 2022, the number of reported coronavirus infection cases exceeded ...
Jun 14, 2022
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Experts discuss the knowns and unknowns of long COVID
As the vast majority of the world's population continues to encounter SARS-CoV-2 virus and become infected, one question looms ever larger: What will be the long-term physiological repercussions of having had COVID?
Jun 10, 2022
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