Contemporaneous comparison of the incidence of major infectious diseases in male (A) and female (B) before and after COVID-19. 17–19 Period 1 was from 24 January to 2 March in 2017, 2018, and 2019. 17–19 Period 2 was from 3 to 22 March in 2017, 2018, and 2019. 17–19 Period...
To clarify the potential value of shortening the infectious period, Lee and colleagues created acomputational modelthat simulates the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. They used the model to explore how a vaccine ormedicationthat can reduce the contagious period might allevia...
The IJID Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Collection brings together COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) content from the IJID as it is published. Editors for the International Journal on Infectious Diseases rapidly evaluate submitted manuscripts concerning the evolving COVID-19 pandemic. Copyediting and publ...
Wuhan, a city of China, is the epicenter for the pandemic outbreak of coronavirus disease‐2019 (COVID‐19). It has become a severe public health challenge to the world and established a public health emergency of international worry. This infectious disease has pulled down the economy of ...
Learn about the latest news and developments related to infectious diseases — including H5N1, Covid-19, hepatitis C, polio, Candida auris, mpox, and more — and how they’re caused, spread, and treated.Latest Health Helen Branswell As officials prepare for WHO-led flu vaccine meeting, ...
COVID-19 is now the dominant infectious disease concern in Beijing, with the JN.1 variant being the dominant strain. While the city reported 88,971 cases of 21 infectious diseases in February 2024, including viral hepatitis, tubercu...
One new infectious disease COVID-19 broke out in Wuhan in 2019. It has appeared in other countries, including Japan, the United States and so on. The local government is trying to do something useful to stop the further development of this disease.In order to control the spread of the di...
It assumed an incubation period—the time between exposure to infection and appearance of symptoms—of a little over five days. The authors inferred that infectiousness started 2.3 days before symptoms appeared and was at its peak at 0.7 days before the first signs of illness—although they cauti...
Our first encounter with COVID-19 was when we housed a number of passengers who had been quarantined on the Diamond Princess cruise ship and were then repatriated to America. Quite a few of them had COVID when they arrived. One of them was deemed sick enough to need hospita...
"To develop effective public health policies, we need data-driven public health guidance," Yonker said. "Kids are an essential component of beating the COVID-19 pandemic, and we must learn more about how they are affected and interact with others."...