“We are really working day and night” to figure out long Covid, one researcher said. By Yasmin Tayag Even as the number of new Covid-19 cases in the US is dropping, hundreds of thousands of Americans are still testing positive every day. More than 28 million new cases...
In Italy, with its high vaccination rate, the social schism revolves less around who’s gotten a shot, and more around lifestyles and comfort levels of living with the coronavirus. By Jason Horowitz ROME — The entire family is vaccinated, even the relatives, and all...
A Yale University epidemiologist who works with the National Basketball Association (NBA) conducted a surveillance study of 35,000 COVID-infected people that concluded that unvaccinated people are slightly less likely to catch Omicron than people who have received two...
Recently preliminary findings of a study were published in Pediatric Neurology in December suggested that neurologic manifestations were common in children hospitalized from COVID-19 and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children. This most recent study...
Israel, one of the more heavily vaccinated nations, goes through its worst surge yet with record infections driven by both the delta and omicron variants of concern. Despite a vaccination rate of nearly 70% and the world’s most boosted populations (three doses)...
Israel has been, to a certain degree, the petri dish for the worldwide covid pandemic. It was the first country to fully vaccinate its population and is now dealing with the aftermath. An Israeli doctor alleges he told Pfizer about the incidents of...
A group of researchers in Wuhan, China have discovered a new bat coronavirus, called NeoCoV that appears to be on the threshold of human infectivity using the same pathway, the ACE-2 receptor gene, that the SARS-CoV-2 virus used to such widescale destructive effect....
This large retrospective observational population study out of Mexico is a testament to the benefits of treating mild outpatient Covid-19 cases with a medical kit at home. They found that the incidence of hospitalization was only 6.14% in patients who received a kit...
Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, the cures in question, have proven to be ineffective in preventing or treating Covid-19 By Eric Berger Republican state lawmakers across the United States have proposed – and in some cases passed – legislation that they say keeps the...
The country has instituted a wide range of high-tech controls on society as part of a mostly successful effort to stop the virus. The consequences may endure. By Chris Buckley, Vivian Wang and Keith Bradsher The police had warned Xie Yang, a human rights lawyer, not...
A new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine consensus study, headed by Kaiser Permanente Division of Research Director Tracy Lieu, MD, MPH, makes recommendations to accelerate the research needed to fill evidence...
rialSite continues to report on possible connections between the microbiome and COVID-19, including the results of a study sponsored by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Center for Gut Microbiota Research. Now, CUHK researchers are in the...
While children were for the most part spared during the first couple of pandemic surges, this hasn’t been the case with the Delta and Omicron variants of concern. While severe cases due to SARS-CoV-2 infection remain far rarer than with adults, more children are...
Recently, an international trial site network known as the International Network for Strategic Initiatives in Global HIV Trials (INSIGHT) completed a global study revealing that remdesivir plus a highly concentrated solution of antibodies that neutralize SARS-CoV-2...
For those with underlying medical conditions, the latest pandemic wave has still posed a threat. By Reed Abelson and Christina Jewett Regina Perez, 57, had never been hospitalized for her lifelong asthma condition until she came down with Covid this month. She started...