Over the course of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, the clinical, scientific, and public health communities have had to respond to new viral genetic variants. Each one has triggered a flurry of media attention, a range of reactions from the scientific ...
What Do Emergent Strains of SARS-CoV-2 Mean for Vaccine Protection?: New Answers from Virology and Infectious Disease Expertsdoi:10.1097/01.NT.0000738068.97720.6bOrly AvitzurNeurology Today
Adam, for my listeners, and maybe to benefit me, let's start with some basic questions. SARS CoV 2 is an RNA virus. What does it mean that it's an RNA virus?
However, as thoughts turn to fuller reopening in the autumn term, the issue of safety, and how it is defined, will continue to be a crucial one. Coronavirus: what does ‘safe’ mean? Some of the key “safety” factors were highlighted in a recentreport on reopening schoolspublished by th...
The coughing and other respiratory symptoms of COVID-19, the infection caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, may also be confused with allergies. One notable difference is that fever, which often accompanies COVID-19 and the flu, isn’t usually a sign of allergies. Another difference: Allerg...
And what does it mean that the US State department just move Jamaica to “red”? Thanks for the blog and info Michelle Csays: Sep 2021 at 7:46 am Thanks for your questions, Kevin. Yes, travel between approved resorts can be done in approved transportation, although not during curfew or...
Does the new strain sweeping the globe mean COVID will become ever morecontagious? By Charles Schmidt on April 4, 2022 目前为止我们对 Omicron BA.2 变种的了解(第二部分) 席卷全球的新病毒株是否意味着 新冠病毒将变得更...
POTS is a manifestation of the systemic nature of long covid; it does not need specific treatment but will improve spontaneously as the patient goes through standard interventions such as active pacing, respiratory physical therapy and sleep hygiene; ...
So where does this leave us? Those 2 studies suggest that surgical masks are approximately comparable to N95 masks when it comes to preventing influenza illness in close contact clinical settings. What this doesn’t tell us, is whether they’re better than wearing nothing on our faces. To fin...
SARS-CoV-2-specific T cells was largely indistinguishable from pre-pandemic negative control samples52. The two studies used essentially the same approach. When T cell responses were screened across SARS-CoV-2 antigen peptide pools, we observed that T cell responses to the SARS-CoV-2 ORF3a ...