In their recent publication in Gut, Lin et al report 11% of patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) to present at admission with GI symptoms1; early observations reported that COVID-19 could present with GI symptoms in 3% of patients.2 3 Diarrhoea, nausea, vomiting and/or ...
If you think you’ve come into contact with the virus, or if you have symptoms, isolate yourself and check your temperature every morning and evening for at least 10 days. Keep track of the readings. A fever is the most common COVID-19 symptom, but it’s sometimes below 100 F. In a...
We analyze data from Twitter to uncover early-warning signals of COVID-19 outbreaks in Europe in the winter season 2019–2020, before the first public announcements of local sources of infection were made. We show evidence that unexpected levels of concerns about cases of pneumonia were raised ...
Researchers find that an influenza surveillance system from the WHO showed early signs of COVID-19 pandemic. Credit: Martin Sanchez, Unsplash (CC0, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) Outliers in the number of cases of influenza-like illness (ILI) that tested negative for influ...
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments have taken drastic measures to avoid an overflow of intensive care units. Accurate metrics of disease spread are critical for the reopening strategies. Here, we show that self-reports of smell/taste changes are more closely associated with ...
COVID-19 infections may be slowly starting to rise again in Canada, new data from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) suggests.
"Even before we realized that COVID-19 was spreading, the data imply that there was at least one case of COVID-19 for every two cases of flu," Meyers said. "Since we knew how widespread flu was at that time, we could reasonably determine the prevalence of COVID-19." ...
People who contracted COVID-19 during the early stages of the pandemic had an increased risk of myocardial infarction (heart attack), stroke, and death for the next 3 years, according to astudysponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). ...
As COVID-19 continues to spread globally, monitoring the disease at different scales is critical to support public health decision making. Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater can supplement surveillance based on diagnostic testing. In this paper, we report the results of wastewater-based...
In a statement, the L.A. County Department of Public Health said it “will continue to monitor COVID-19 data in the coming weeks to better understand if we have truly passed this summer’s peak.” Even with COVID potentially on the downswing for now, doctors are ur...