Many people previously diagnosed with COVID-19 now coping with ‘long COVID’
As COVID-19 continues to impact the world, health care professionals are finding more patients who were diagnosed with the illness but still are dealing...
Yale experts: What you need to know about the new COVID-19 test
As businesses and schools tentatively reopen amid an ongoing pandemic, scientists at the Yale School of Public Health have developed a new method to...
Who should get the COVID-19 vaccine first?
When effective COVID-19 vaccines are developed, their supply will inevitably be scarce.
The World Health Organization (WHO), global leaders, and vaccine producers are already facing...
Many animal species can be vulnerable to COVID-19 infection
In a new study, researchers found humans are not the only species facing a potential threat from SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
The...
COVID-19 less deadly and causes milder symptoms in children: New evidence
In a new study, researchers found children and teenagers are less likely than adults to develop severe COVID-19 or die from the disease.
They also...
Scientists find more lasting immunity against COVID than previously believed
In a new study, researchers found that immunity to the disease may not be as fleeting as first thought.
Among 30,000 Icelandic residents who were...
Scientists find the cause of higher COVID-19 death rate in obese people
In a new study, researchers found that there are overlaps between the immunological disturbances in both COVID-19 disease and patients with obesity.
This finding could...
Scientists find possible blood-clotting cause in COVID-19
Why so many COVID-19 patients get blood clots (thrombosis) remains uncertain.
In a new study, researchers have identified a mechanism they believe to be implicated.
A...
What to expect when COVID-19 meets flu season
The return of “hoodie weather” tells us autumn is just around the corner. So, too, is influenza season. And this year, the flu will...
COVID-19 patients who use ventilators can have permanent nerve damage
Severely ill COVID-19 patients on ventilators are placed in a prone (face down) position because it's easier for them to breathe and reduces mortality.
But...