causing the “common cold” in otherwise healthy people. However, in the 21st century, 2 highly pathogenic HCoVs—severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)—emerged from animal reservoirs to cause global epidemics with alarming...
Can you distinguish between the common cold, the flu, and COVID-19? This is where it becomes more difficult because they're all caused by respiratory viruses. It's easier to tell the difference between the flu and a cold. People who have the flu tend to feel pretty sick, especially if...
THURSDAY, Feb. 11, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- It would be nice if it were true, but a bout of the common cold won't protect you against the new coronavirus infection, researchers report. Colds are caused by seasonal coronaviruses (CoVs) and previous studies have suggested that exposure to...
COVID-19VACCINESIMMUNE systemCROSS reactions (Immunology)CORONAVIRUSESThis Medical News article discusses new research on immune system cross-reactivity to different coronaviruses and implications for pan-coronavirus vaccines.Youmshajekian, LoriJAMA: Journal of the American Medical Ass...
Anosmia constitutes a prominent symptom of COVID-19. However, anosmia is also a common symptom of acute colds of various origins. In contrast to an acute cold, it appears from several questionnaire-based studies that in the context of COVID-19 infection, anosmia is the main rhinological sympt...
This could mean that anyone who's ever been infected by a common cold coronavirus -- nearly everyone -- may have some amount of immunity to COVID-19, according to infectious disease experts at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, N.Y....
COVID-19: caused by novel coronavirus. What's the difference between infectivity? Common Cold: It is not infectious. When the resistance decreases, some viruses colonized in the upper respiratory tract replicate, causing symptoms;...
“The COVID-19 disease is actually much less severe in those patients who had documented endemic coronavirus infections.” —Manish Sagar, Boston Medical Center The authors at Boston University School... Interested in reading more? The Scientist ARCHIVES Become a Member of Receive full ac...
Exposure to the rhinovirus, the most frequent cause of the common cold, can protect against infection by theviruswhich causesCOVID-19, Yale researchers have found. In a new study, the researchers found that the common respiratory virus jump-starts the activity of interferon-stimulated genes, ear...
Pre-existing T cells from common colds may explain children’s mildCOVID-19symptoms. During the COVID-19 pandemic, medical professionals and researchers observed that children and teenagers who contracted thevirusexhibited milder symptoms compared to adults. This phenomenon may be attributed to the pr...