Globally, breakthrough COVID-19 infections among vaccinated people are increasing, raising concerns about the durability of protection against emerging, highly contagious variants of concern. A study publishing May 5th in ...
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McMaster University researchers who study the dynamics of infectious disease transmission have investigated the population-level consequences of a potentially significant––and unobvious––benefit of wearing masks.
May 4, 2022
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Women who were pregnant during the recent Omicron surge were diagnosed with COVID-19 at a much higher rate than during previous phases of the pandemic, but were less likely to develop severe illness, a study by UT Southwestern ...
Apr 25, 2022
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The world's largest study of the genetics of critical COVID-19, involving more than 57,000 people, has revealed fresh details about some of the biological mechanisms behind the severe form of the disease.
Mar 7, 2022
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University of Queensland researchers have unlocked a way of fighting Listeria infections, which can cause severe illness in pregnant women and people with compromised immune systems.
Jan 24, 2022
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New research has revealed that red blood cells function as critical immune sensors by binding cell-free DNA, called nucleic acid, present in the body's circulation during sepsis and COVID-19, and that this DNA-binding capability ...
Oct 20, 2021
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New research shows that Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients undergoing anti-CD20 (aCD20) treatment—which depletes the B cells that contribute to the MS attacks—are able to mount robust T-cell responses to the mRNA COVID-19 ...
Sep 15, 2021
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Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, clinicians have noted that certain patients are at especially high risk of developing severe illness or dying from coronavirus infection. Type 2 diabetes—a condition affecting more than ...
Sep 7, 2021
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People infected with the SARS-CoV-2 delta variant have approximately double the risk of hospitalization compared with those infected with the alpha variant, a study of more than 40,000 cases from England between 29 March ...
Aug 28, 2021
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Rising coronavirus cases in Israel, where most residents are inoculated with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, offer "a preliminary signal" the vaccine may be less effective in preventing mild illness from the Delta variant, a ...
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