COVID-19 is deadly to older adults, with research showing that being older and having underlying chronic diseases are significant risk factors for COVID-19 related deaths. However, though similarities exist between both nursing home residents and older community-dwelling people, ...
Even now, we panic because younger children aren’t eligible for the COVID vaccine and obsess over the rising rate of pediatric hospitalizations to the point that we have blinded ourselves to the truth: COVID-19 is far less dangerous to children in Wisconsin than the street...
"We are watching play out, in real time, that the immune systems of individuals over age 50 are less capable of dealing with a new virus," said Stanford's Weyand. "Essentially, COVID-19 is a big experiment of nature—showing us that as we get old, our ability to make antiviral immun...
But as researchers like us have learned more about the spread of the virus, we have discovered that the total number of infected people isfar greater than the number of confirmed cases. When deaths from COVID-19 are divided by the total number of cases—not just reported cases—you get a...
Why now? In general, China's policy shift is based on several facts: First, the Omicron variant is much less deadly. Warding off the much more dangerous virus strains with its prevention and control measures, China has chosen a less costly time to lift its COVID restrictions. ...
How to Estimate the Mortality Risk of COVID-19:A New Approach with a Three-Factor Decomposition Statistical analysis of COVID-19 mortality is challenging due to its non-stationarity and cross-sectional instability. In this paper, the authors introduce... B Cheng,Q Bao,Y Zheng,... - 《Jour...
COVID-19 has become less deadly since the start of the pandemic, thanks to vaccinations, the development of new medications, and the buildup of immunity from prior infections. Still, the disease poses a greater public health risk than the flu. ...
Being a pathologist who runs his own private diagnostic laboratory, Dr. Cole is perhaps one of the most qualified physicians in America today to give an independent, honest evaluation of the current roll-out of the COVID-19 “vaccines,” and he didn’t pull any...
Measles is also one of the most contagious infectious diseases. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,up to 9 out of 10 peopleexposed to an infected person will become infected if they don't have protection from vaccines. The measles virus can stay in the air and infect...
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual briefing from Geneva that the organisation was constantly learning about thenew virussweeping the globe, which has now killed nearly 115,000 people and infected over 1.8 million. "We know that COVID-19 spreads fast, and we know that it is...