Long COVID linked to brain and mental illnesses
Scientists from UC San Francisco found biomarkers that may persist for many months in the blood of patients who had long COVID with neuropsychiatric...
Booster shot can provide better protection than original COVID-19 vaccines
Scientists from Northwestern University found that COVID-19 booster shots trigger much stronger and longer protection than full vaccination with two doses of the Pfizer...
Scientists find the cause of US delta variant surge
When the delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 hit the United States in summer 2021, it led to a larger-than-expected surge in cases, hospitalizations and deaths.
Scientists...
Vaccination could reduce the risk of ‘long COVID’
Scientists from Washington University in St. Louis found that vaccinated people who experience a breakthrough case of COVID-19 are at risk for developing long-haul...
These pre-existing health conditions double or triple your COVID-19 death risk
Scientists from Penn State found that certain pre-existing conditions may double or triple mortality risk for COVID-19.
They confirmed that heart disease, high blood pressure,...
Sensory loss happens in nearly 100% of active COVID infections
Scientists from Ohio State University found that the loss of smell and taste with a COVID-19 infection during the delta surge was a prevalent...
Scientists find how to predict dominant COVID-19 variants
Scientists from MIT, Harvard, and elsewhere have developed a computer model that can analyze millions of SARS-CoV-2 genomes and predict which viral variants will...
Nearly 1 in 3 older people gets new health problems after COVID-19 infection
Scientists from Optum Labs and elsewhere found that almost a third (32 of every 100) of older adults infected with COVID-19 in 2020 developed...
Air pollution linked to more severe COVID-19
Scientists from the University of California San Diego found that some common air pollutants, such as ground-level ozone, are associated with more severe outcomes...
Vaccination could reduce long COVID symptoms, shows study
Graham was a healthy 34-year-old until he developed COVID in July 2020.
Along with his wife and children, he had a fever, a cough, breathlessness,...