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Various media sources have reported that about 8 in 10 people who test positive for COVID-19 have no symptoms. This follows results from the largest cross-sectional survey of the general population being carried out in England. The REACT-1 study has been sending viral testing kits and online questionnaires to over 120,000 people each month. In […]?
People recovering from severe COVID-19 illness have been found to have a high risk of conditions including anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). An Italian study included 402 adults who had presented to hospital with COVID-19. One month later, 56% met recognised criteria for a mental health condition, including 42% with anxiety and 28% […]?
There have now been several global reports of babies born to women infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The vast majority of these babies have not tested positive for the virus or experienced any breathing problems. There have now been a few case reports which appear to show that the infection can pass […]?
Few points within the coverage response to the coronavirus illness 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have impressed as impassioned debate as college reopening. There may be broad settlement that faculty closures contain heavy burdens on college students, dad and mom, and the economic system, with profound fairness implications, but additionally that the chance of outbreaks can’t be […]?
There’s nonetheless quite a bit to be taught concerning the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). We do know that there are some precautions that we will take to assist sluggish the unfold of the illness. Listed below are the highest 10 methods you’ll be able to assist scale back the unfold of COVID-19: 1. Wash your arms […]?
Our assessment: An artificial intelligence (AI) model may be able to rule out COVID-19 infection among people arriving at the hospital, before the results of virus swab tests are ready. Researchers at Oxford University used data from more than 115,000 hospital visits by adults and five million routine laboratory tests, to ‘train’ an algorithm to […]?
As countries begin to ease lockdown restrictions, new outbreaks of COVID-19 have raised concerns that we might be in for a ‘second wave’ of infections. What does that mean, and is it inevitable? Expectations partly depend on what the wave ‘pattern’ means. There is no scientific definition of this wave of infection. It essentially implies […]?
As the pandemic continues, we are understanding the long-term effects of COVID-19 infection better. In the early stages of the pandemic, there were anecdotal reports that some people still had symptoms one month after infection. It now appears that symptoms may be persistent for much longer and surveys and series of cases from hospitals and […]?
The world is still in ‘one big wave’ of the COVID-19 pandemic, with countries experiencing peaks and troughs of infection, a WHO expert has said. While there has been speculation about a ‘second wave’ of infections this winter, WHO has cautioned that we should not think of COVID like the common cold or influenza, which […]?
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the reason for coronavirus illness 2019 (COVID-19), has prompted a world pandemic of historic proportions within the 10 months since instances have been first reported in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, with worldwide morbidity, mortality, and disruptions to society. Finally, a secure and efficient vaccine will probably be […]?