How long are you contagious with COVID-19? You are contagious and may spread the virus that causes COVID-19, at least 2 days before you show symptoms and for up to 10 days from the day you have your first symptom. The highest risk of transmitting the virus to someone else in the fe...
How many variants are there of the COVID-19 virus? AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin By MARION RENAULT, Associated Press How many variants of the coronavirus are there? There are many circulating around the world, but health experts are primarily concerned with the emergence of three. As a virus...
Those 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 Twitter Facebook Email When the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) halved its recommended ...
However,severe cases have much higher viral loadsand many continue to test positive beyond the 10 days after symptoms start. So the more severe the illness and the higher the viral load, the longer you continue to shed the virus and are infectious. When are you no longer infectious? If som...
How long are you contagious with COVID? People seem to pass on the virus most often about two days before symptoms show up and during the early stages of their illness. If your symptoms are serious, you may be infectious for a longer period ...
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....
How long are you contagious with COVID? People seem to pass on the virus most often about two days before symptoms show up and during the early stages of their illness. If your symptoms are serious, you may be infectious for a longer period People infected with COVID can spread it even...
However, many neglected tropical disease programs faced serious challenges. In addition to missed drug administration and vector control such as insecticide spraying, these included hesitancy to participate, reassignment of tropical disease personnel to COVID-19 interventions, delays in active case finding...
How to Beat COVID-19 or any Any Other High-Consequence Infectious DiseaseHong, RickDelaware Medical Journal
people felt that given the fatality rate it was not worth it. Many people were infected, but most of them were OK. So you can understand why there are so many contradictory messages right now. Some countries take it seriously, some think it's nothing to worry about, most countries think...