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many severe cases, about 20% of all patients. Most of these severe cases will recover after treatment, but when tens of thousands of people in one city get sick at the same time, the medical capacity of the city will be challenged. Singapore has been keeping the number of feverish patient...
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The vast majority of the patients were healthy prior to contracting COVID-19. Yonts says that many were “super high functioning, straight ‘A’ students, Division I athletes involved in 800 things under the sun and excelling in all of them.” “I'd say 90% of case...
Large scale clinical trials for a COVID-19 vaccine involve two groups of participants. Half are selected at random to be given the test vaccine, while the other half get a dummy vaccine (known as a placebo or control). Then the researchers wait and see how many people who got the real...
Nearly 1 in 4 U.S. adults and older teens had still not caughtCOVID-19by the end of last year, according to new estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, while 77.5% had antibodies from at least one prior infection. Thefiguresare based on the final batch of results...
Coronavirus (now officially called COVID-19) is an airborne respiratory illness that appears to have originated in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. Chinese authorities identified the new variant of coronavirus. By late January, 2020, there were over 1,000 confirmed cases in China, including cases ou...
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The influence of attitudes on mode choice behaviour was found to be particularly strong in cases where habit is weak (Verplanken et al., 1994). This is particularly interesting in the light of the current COVID-19 situation, as many people are forced to, at least temporarily, break their...
Assigning a cause of death is never straightforward, but data on excess deaths suggest coronavirus death tolls are likely an underestimate