How long is COVID infectious? What scientists know so farThose with SARS-CoV-2 are often advised to isolate for only a few days. But evidence is mounting that some people can continue to pass on the virus for much longer. By David Adam ...
The SARS-CoV-2 virus has evolved and mutated to produce several variants since the start of the COVID pandemic. Variants, as well as subvariants, typically evolve to become stronger and more infectious than previous ones. New variants may resist treatments and vaccines, allowing them to spread ...
Microcovid had a blog post a while ago, pre-delta, that has this image: From what I remember about omicron, the infectiousness window is smaller. Ballparking it, I'll throw out some numbers and guess that on day 5 maybe you are 20% as infectious, and on day 10 you are 1% as ...
Yin Wanhong, associate professor of Critical Care Medicine of West China Hospital of Sichuan University and infectious disease specialist Nikhil Bhayani from Texas exchanged their experience on how to use convalescent plasma therapy to treat COVID-19 patients....
It is of great challenge to raise the public coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) related health literacy (CRHL) in impoverished regions due to the limits of poor infrastructure, large proportion of vulnerable groups, etc. However, those limits cannot be
COVID-19 precautions taken in 2020 disrupted efforts to eliminate several neglected tropical diseases by 2030, which could delay some regions from
"Still, breakthrough cases are less likely to cause long-COVID." How does a booster vaccine impact the length of a sickness? Staying up-to-date on your booster vaccines, which are additional shots given to prime your immune system after your first two mRNA-based vaccinations, can shorten ...
In response to the COVID-19 crisis, Foursquare made publicly available the data gathered from a pool of 13 million U.S. users. These users were “always-on” during the period of data collection, meaning that they allowed the application to gather geo-location data at all times, even ...
The right face covering can help you breathe in fewer infectious droplets that get released when someone with COVID sneezes, coughs, talks, or breathes. The better your mask fits and the more filtration it provides, the more protection you get, experts say. In one lab study, researchers test...
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the vast differences in approaches to the control and containment of coronavirus across the world and has demonstrated the varied success of such approaches in minimizing the transmission of coronavirus. Whil