COVID-19 virus exploits many types of frailty and ill health
Scientists from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine found that the COVID-19 pandemic appears to have multiplied the risk of death by...
COVID-19 can have lingering impacts on the brain
In a recent study from Tulane University, scientists found in detail how COVID-19 affects the brain.
They found severe brain inflammation and injury consistent with reduced blood...
Why diabetes strongly increases risk of severe COVID-19
Scientists found that the patients with diabetes have higher levels of inflammatory biomarkers compared to those without diabetes, exacerbating the effects COVID can have...
This study finds a major cause of COVID-19 death in older people
In a recent study from the University of Washington and elsewhere, scientists found that the body’s ability to create these cloned cells falls off...
Hybrid immunity offer strongest protection against omicron
Scientists from Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar found that protection against omicron is the strongest with hybrid immunity.
The research is published in the New England Journal of...
People can have persistent immune inflammation after mild COVID-19
Scientists from Karolinska Institutet found why some people suffer from long-lasting symptoms after COVID-19 infection.
They found that a certain type of immune cells called...
These people need additional COVID-19 vaccine doses
Scientists from the National University of Singapore found immunocompromised patients should get additional doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
The findings reinforce the importance of additional doses...
The lasting symptoms among COVID-19 long haulers
More than two years after the COVID-19 pandemic erupted, scientists have become increasingly aware of a group of patients—so-called "long haulers"—who remain plagued by...
Scientists find the cause of ‘brain fog’ in long COVID
Scientists from La Trobe University found that the cause of 'brain fog' in long COVID.
They found similarities between the effects of COVID-19 and the...
Omicron variant causes less ‘long COVID’ risk than delta
Scientists from King's College London found that the omicron variant is less likely to cause long COVID than the delta variant.
The findings are from...