"In ICU-patients aged 70 years and older, COVID-19 is more severe—with approximately double mortality rates—compared with bacterial or viral pneumonia. Nevertheless, more than half of theseolder patientsadmitted to Dutch ICUs with COVID-19 survived thehospital," said corresponding author Lenneke...
COVID-19 outbreak is expected to persist in months to come that will be synchronous with the influenza season. The management, prognosis, and protection for these two viral pneumonias differ considerably and differentiating between them has a high impact on the patient outcome. Reverse transcriptase...
Huddersfield researchers were among the first to demonstrate how the induction of brain inflammation accounts for neurological damage in COVID19 patients and now, their findings have been published in a peer-reviewed medical ...
Remember, the severe pneumonia caused by COVID-19 has a characteristic feature: dyspnea. This is a very important symptom, and also the most important indicator for you to go to the emergency room. How do you know if you have breathing difficulties? I suggest you to take the stairs. If ...
If your immune system can't subdue COVID-19 in the first week or so, the virus may move down into your lungs. There, it attacks cells that line them. Fluid and mucus build up and make it harder to get oxygen to your blood. It gets tough to breathe. This is pneumonia. Most people...
The measures for the short and long term in the post COVID-19 period were proposed. The results of this study can help governments adopt policies to promote customized bus services not only in the post COVID-19 period but also during regular daily life....
No. Antibiotics do not work against viruses; they only work on bacterial infections. Antibiotics do not prevent or treat COVID-19, because COVID-19 is caused by a virus, not bacteria. Some patients with COVID-19 may also develop a bacterial infection, such as pneumonia. ...
While COVID-19 and flu remain at unusually low levels nationwide, rates of at least other germs that spread through coughs and sneezes remain elevated. CDC'sdataon emergency room visits from the bacteria Mycoplasma pneumoniae, sometimes called "walking pneumonia," have increased in recent weeksespe...
virus. Flu mainly spreads via tiny droplets made through coughing, sneezing, or talking. These droplets can travel about six feet and can land in the mouths or noses of others nearby.Symptomscan range from mild to severe, sometimes leading to pneumonia, bronchitis, ear infections, and even ...
Days before the World Health Organization (WHO) released its statement on COVID-19, BlueDot, a Toronto-based infectious disease surveillance company, had alerted its clients of a cluster of unusual pneumonia cases in Wuhan. With the expertise in infectious diseases, big data analytics and digital...