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One of the reasons we might be seeing more people falling for misinformation is the knowledge gap that comes with an emerging disease like COVID-19. There’s a lot we still don’t know about this virus, and that lack of understanding can create a vacuum that is all too easily filled by...
‘Social distancing’ is not just a fashionable buzzword of 2024. Limiting close face-to-face interactions and maintaining a safe distance of at least two metres or six feet between people is the best way to reduce the spread of Covid-19. It can seem unavoidable in modes of transport, wit...
New York, Feb 19 (Ians) Scientists have found that Covid-19 infection can cause changes in calcium channels that can affect how the heart beats which can also trigger inflammation and oxidative stress in the heart.In heart tissue from patients who had Covid-19, the team from Columbia Unive...
So, deadly viruses like SARS does not spread as widely nor as fast. COVID-19 is not as deadly as we think, but highly infectious. During the 2009 flu season, tens of million were infected in the United States, but the mortality rate was 0.1% to 0.2%. The world was very scared at...
The World Health Organization (WHO) was too cautious in communicating the risks of COVID-19 early last year, according to the first major investigation of the global pandemic response. Had it been bolder, and had nations heeded its guidance, the pandemic might have been curtailed, say the ...
It tells the child what COVID-19 is,how it spreads,and how we can protect ourselves from it.The pictures show love between family members,friends and everyone. Ten Tips to Fight Monsters(Writer:Dong Ruihan)Dad leaves 10 tips to help us fight the virus.Who will win the war?The story...
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Wuhan-based virologist Shi Zhengli has identified dozens of deadly SARS-like viruses in bat caves, and she warns there are more out there
due to the rapid ramp up in production and speed necessary to deploy the COVID-19 vaccine quickly, the new vaccine is anticipated to be made available initially in single or multidose vials, which require the use of separate needles and syringes to draw the vaccine from the vial and adminis...