COVID-19 is more Deadly in People with ObesityMonica AusteniMedPub
How Hard Will the New Covid Variant Hit Idaho? There’s a new variant of COVID and omicron called HV.1 that is spreading rapidly around the United States. The variant is a powerful and contagious mutation of the deadly virus that has only been around for a few months but has quickly b...
But it's actually quite strange for this variant to be more deadly. There's not a selective advantage for a virus to kill its host, because it might kill its host before they transmit the virus. Scientists still need to find out why this variant is more deadly, and how it came about....
The World Health Organization (WHO) has classified the delta variant as a “variant of concern.” That means there’s evidence that it can spread more rapidly, brings more severe illness, and reduces the antibodies generated from past COVID-19 infections or the vaccine. The appearance of the ...
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. Second, the country has launched the world's largest vaccination campaign in scale to...
It first came under strain because of the COVID-19 crisis, which impacted the Chinese economy, and now the American economy. According to Bloomberg, China is stepping up purchases of soybeans from the U.S. and seeks to meet its pledges under the trade deal. According...
Scientists are monitoring the delta-related variant—known as AY.4.2.—to see if it might spread more easily or be more deadly than previous versions of the coronavirus. In a recent report, U.K. officials said this variant makes up 6% of all analyzed COVID-19 cases in the country and ...
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...
UK's Johnson Says He Is Looking at COVID Help for India More Reuters A man carries a stretcher used for carrying bodies of victims who died due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), during a mass cremation at a crematorium ground in New Delhi, India, April 23, 2021. REUTERS/Dani...
The novel coronavirus is 10 times more deadly than swine flu, which caused a global pandemic in 2009, the World Health Organization said Monday, stressing a vaccine would be necessary to fully halt transmission.