COVID-19, a cousin of the SARS virus, has infected more than ten million people since the outbreak began in Wuhan, China in December, 2019. Scientists think it likely started in an animal and spread to humans. The World Health Organization offered guidance to countries on how they can pre...
Things You Should Know AboutCOVID-19COVID-19, a cousin of the SARS virus, has infected more than ten million people since the outbreak began in Wuhan, China in December, 2019. Scientists think it likely started in an animal and spread to humans. The World Health Organization offered guidanc...
Early in the pandemic, one such mutation caused the COVID-19 virus to become more transmissible byincreasing how much virus was producedby people it infected, according to research by Dr. Volz and his colleagues. The change also seems to have led the virus to infect larger numbers of younger...
section chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center and a professor of infectious diseases at the Perelman School of Medicine, to learn more about COVID-19 vaccine boosters, their role in the current phase of the pandemic, and what other measurespeoplecan take...
China's COVID-19 response measures, based on a people-centered development philosophy, take no chances when it comes to people's lives and health. The repercussions of lowering the guard could be disastrous for a country with 1.4 billion...
Healthcare workers are also increasingly becoming infected, which means there are fewer staff to treat patients. The number of NHS staff at hospitals in England off work due to Covid-19 has risen for the fourth week in a row, with an...
Intellectual property enabled the discovery of COVID-19 vaccines. But calls to waive IP rights would harm medical innovation and our ability to respond to the next pandemic.
Posted by Karen Leidy | Nov 17, 2021 | Things To Know: Coronavirus | COVID-19 Update The Texas National Guard will host a COVID vaccination clinic this Thursday,... Read More New HHS Report: Vaccination Linked to Reduction of About 24K COVID-19 Cases, 9.7K Hospitalizations, and 3.6...
Unsure whether you have the flu or COVID-19? Get tested. Since symptoms of COVID-19 and the flu overlap so much—think headache, fever, muscle aches and cough—the only way to know for certain you have one or the other (or another virus such asRSV) is to see a doctor and get te...
Ten things we learned about COVID-19Intensive Care Medicine -doi:10.1007/s00134-020-06140-0Maurizio CecconiGuido ForniAlberto MantovaniIntensive Care Medicine