As the number of COVID-19 patient records grows, researchers are meticulously combing through the data, searching for a better understanding of the virus and what we can expect in the months and years ahead. What is now of increasing concern in health care is the realization that the virus can not only be severe, but […]
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Expect 'Difficult' Winter with Mix of Coronavirus and Flu, Says CDC Director
One of the nation's top health officials is warning that the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) could worsen in coming months. On Tuesday, Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, spoke at a webinar for Journal of the American Medical Association, or JAMA, when he said Americans should brace for what […]
Coronavirus immunity can be 'short-lived,' expert warns
McDaniel: Trump campaign leading the way holding rallies with safety measures RNC chair Ronna McDaniel on precautions being taken ahead of Trump’s New Hampshire rally. A British immunologist warned Monday that immunity to the coronavirus could be " rather short-lived" and individuals shouldn't rely on that alone to cope with the infectious disease. Danny Altmann, a […]
WHO chief praises Corona-Commission in Sweden: Other countries should learn from it
That Sweden is on a different, more lax course in the fight against the Coronavirus, is now the most well-known. The Scandinavian country is focusing more on education instead of restrictions. Restaurants were not, for example, a mask of duty there. For this path, it rained, but also of many pages of criticism, particularly from […]
Live Science podcast ‘Life’s Little Mysteries’ special report: Coronavirus (June 25)
In this special episode of Life’s Little Mysteries, we focus on a serious topic that everybody is talking about: SARS-CoV-2, and the disease it causes, COVID-19. Every day at Live Science, our reporters and editors track the latest coronavirus developments around the world: from global case numbers and quarantines, to vaccine development, to best practices […]
Coronavirus cases worldwide pass 9 million
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain More than nine million people have now been infected with the coronavirus worldwide, according to an AFP tally drawing on official sources, as of Monday 1520 GMT. More than half of the 9,000,091 cases are in Europe and the United States: Europe having recorded 2,537,451 and the United States 2,281,903. Source: […]
Coronavirus pandemic still accelerating: WHO chief
The novel coronavirus pandemic is still accelerating and its effects will be felt for decades, the World Health Organization’s director-general told an online conference on Monday. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual health forum organised by Dubai authorities that the greatest threat facing the world is not the virus itself, but “the lack of global […]
Hendrik Streeck: “There are many questions that can’t be answered by a physician.”
The role of the virologist, it must be limited, the calls, of all things, one of Germany’s chief virologists, Hendrik Streeck, the University of Bonn. “There are many questions that can’t be answered by a physician.” For example, if it was a matter of the proportionality of the means. Streeck wants a pragmatic approach to […]
Coronavirus: Is a Transmission via meat possible? – Naturopathy Naturopathy Specialist Portal
Meat and Coronavirus: How likely is a Transmission? At the beginning of the pandemic, many people, the question is whether the novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 can also be used on objects and food. In accordance with the current Corona-mass-infection in the Tönnies-the slaughterhouse is now being speculated, especially about whether or not a Transmission via meat […]
Ding Dong, the doctor is here! Like Cuba, with a house to visit Covid-19 fights
In Germany, the government wants to curb the rampant Corona pandemic with a mobile App, other countries rely on large-scale testing or thermal imaging cameras for measuring temperature of passers-by. Cuba has a different approach: day-to-day to go on the Caribbean island of thousands of Doctors and medical students, door-to-door looking for Infected. “We ask […]