COVID-19 can "trick" the immune system in several deceitful ways and infect the lungs of human bodies, which is vividly shown in the following short clip.Click the video below to learn more about the virus infection...
COVID-19 seems to be able to attack cells that line your blood vessels. Aside from heart issues, it can also cause blood clots that lead to a stroke or pulmonary embolism. People who are seriously ill with COVID-19 often have much more of a substance doctors call "D-dimer" in their ...
But this new coronavirus causing COVID-19 in people hasn't been in humans before. It appears to have recently spilled over from wildlife. We don't fully understand where it came from yet and what host it was in prior to spilling into humans, but our lack of prior exposure to this viru...
Did Covid-19 infect the news? How journalists, audiences and production processes have changed due to the pandemicdoi:10.17163/uni.n37.2022.01COVID-19 pandemicMANUFACTURING processesCOVID-19PANDEMICSJOURNALISTSNEWS consumptionFAKE newsJOB security
Isolation is a health care term that means separating people who are contagious from people who aren't. If you have COVID-19, you'll be isolated because you may infect others. There are two types of isolation: Medical isolation.At hospitals, health care centers, and prisons, the staff sep...
Isolation is a health care term that means separating people who are contagious from people who aren't. If you have COVID-19, you'll be isolated because you may infect others. There are two types of isolation: Medical isolation.At hospitals, health care centers, and prisons, the staff sep...
If the virus mutates very fast the next time it infects you, the immune system might not be capable of recognizing it again because it now looks different. "And then you could get a re-infection. That is a theoretical possibility. It does happen." Another ar...
How infectious is it, and how does that compare with the flu? COVID-19 and influenza are probably fairly similarly infections. A single ill person with COVID-19 can infect more people than a single ill person with influenza. COVID-19 has a higher "reproduction number" of2.0-2.5. This ...
Vaccinations for COVID-19 began being administered in the U.S. on Dec. 14, 2020. The quick rollout came a little more than a year after the virus was first identified in November 2019. The impressive speed with which vaccines were developed has also left a lot of people with a lot of...
people who come down with COVID-19 in 2020 might be protected for a few months to a year or two, but lifelong immunity is decidedly unlikely [source:D'Souza and Dowdy]. Even if it turns out that this particular strain of COVID-19 miraculously doesn't mutate, it'll take some serious...