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...
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;...
But how can you tell the difference between the common cold, the flu, and COVID-19? That can be really difficult because COVID-19 can mimic both a simple cold or more of a flu-like illness with fever and body aches. What should someone do if they have cold or flu-like symptoms? I...
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...
“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...
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....
Loss of smell associated with Covid-19 infection is “much more profound” when compared with a bad cold or flu, scientists have found. A team of researchers across Europe, which included experts from the University of East Anglia, compared the experiences of loss of taste and smell of peopl...
"Beyond COVID-19, there are many different types of coronaviruses that can cause serious and sometimes fatal disease, and even more are likely to emerge in the future," says Dr. Yossef Av-Gay, an infectious disease professor in UBC's faculty of medicine and the study's senior author. ...
children and teenagers who contracted thevirusexhibited milder symptoms compared to adults. This phenomenon may be attributed to the presence of memory T cells in children, which were generated as a result of previous exposure to common colds and provided a prior level of immunity to COVID-19. ...