What’s next is difficult to predict. Historically, most countries impose COVID-19 restrictions when strains on the health care system might become unsustainable. Thailand has been relatively proactive when it comes to preventive Covid measures, balanced with the need to keep the tourism industry o...
Portugal is welcoming UK tourists who have had a recent negative test, have recovered from the virus and therefore have antibodies, or had both doses of a vaccine. Gibraltar does not require UK visitors to be tested or vaccinated, whereas Israel will...
Spread of the coronavirus has exposed troubling problems at fur farms and how we respond to outbreaks there.
Some travelers may need to take a COVID test before re-entering their country and test negative. The type of test required is determined by the country you are returning to: For countries requiring PCR tests PCR tests must be administered 96 hours before your scheduled international departure ...
When you receive a COVID-19 test, you won't find out which variant caused your infection. That's because COVID-19 tests only detect the presence of the virus – they don't determine the variant. Genomic sequencing looks at the genetic code of the virus to determine which variant caused...
New York City hospitals expanded resources to an unprecedented extent in response to the COVID pandemic. Thousands of beds, ICU beds, staff members, and ventilators were rapidly incorporated into hospital systems. Nonetheless, this historic public health disaster still created scarcities and the need ...
Households Used Government’s Free At-Home COVID-19 Test Program The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added XBB.1.16 – referred to as “arcturus” – to its variant tracker last week, estimating that it was responsible for more than 7% of new infections...
(The U.S. is now requiring travelers from China to show a negative COVID test before entering. Countries like Italy and Japan have taken similar measures.) "The suffering that is going to occur in China is not good news at all," Topol says. "We are going to be seeing that for ...
Long COVID的表现 据报道有31%-69%的COVID-19患者在感染恢复后出现Long COVID,其最常见的症状包括:疲劳、肌肉疼痛、心悸、认知功能障碍、呼吸困难、焦虑、胸痛和关节痛等。进一步的症状学研究发现,Long COVID可表现出呼吸、心血管、神经系统、肾脏、内分泌、消化等多个系统的...
Experts share what a faint line on a rapid test actually means, plus how sick and contagious you may be, and what to do next.