Because the first cases of COVID-19 appeared in China, there has been a lot of anti-Asian speech and acts around the origins of SARS-CoV-2. Other recent, serious epidemics have begun on other continents -- Ebola virus and Zika virus, among them. Coronavirus is unique in that a certain...
LONDON, April 6 (Xinhua) -- People still need to know a lot about the natural history of COVID-19, including what the disease looks like in various people and how transmissible it is from one person to another, said David Heymann, professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at London Schoo...
We use serial questionnaire data from the long-COVID in Scotland Study (Long-CISS)20 to investigate the natural history of long-COVID in an unselected, general population cohort with laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection compared with symptoms in an age-, sex-, and socioeconomically-matched...
This report is of a 30-year-old man with a recent history of Corona virus disease (COVID)-19 requiring corticosteroid treatment who developed bilateral CSCR with unilateral fibrin and a 7-month follow-up. Case Report: A 30-year-old male patient presented with malaise ...
The COVID-19 vaccine has been a miraculous, life-saving advance, offering staggering efficacy in adults, and was developed with astonishing speed. The time from sequencing the virus to authorizing the first COVID-19 vaccine was so brisk even the optimists appear close-minded. Yet, simultaneously...
President Donald Trump still said in late February that the virus would disappear "like a miracle." Commenting on the sluggish decisions of the U.S. federal government at the outset of the COVID-19 crisis, The Lancet, a general medical journal, said in an editorial: "The degree to which...
Chronology of COVID-19 December 31st: China communicates about the outbreak to the WHO. January 1st: The animal market, the epicenter of the virus, is closed. January 9th: WHO announces to the world about the new type of coronavirus. ...
ew research has poured cold water on the theory that the Covid-19 outbreak in Washington state — the country’s first — was triggered by the very first confirmed case of the infection in the country. Instead, it suggests the person who ignited the first chain...
SinceDecember,therehavebeentensofthousandsofCOVID-19casesbothinandoutofChina,causedbyapreviousviruswedon'tknow:novelcoronavirus.It'snotthefirsttimeforvirusestomakeheadlines.Viruseshavebroughtbigtroubletohumans,withtheirpotentialtocausewidespreaddiseaseanddeath....
Coronaviruses also known as covid-19 belong to the Coronaviridae family in the Nidovirales order. Coronaviruses are tiny in size (65 to 125 nanometer in diameter) and contain a sRNA as a nucleic material, size ranging from 26 to 32 kilobyte in length. The first case of corona virus was...