Public Health

COVID-19 vaccines, boosters effectively prevent severe reinfection

Scientists from the CDC found if you already got COVID-19, vaccines and boosters could protect against hospitalization from COVID -19 reinfection. The research is published...

Vaccination can strongly cut viral load in COVID-19 infection

Scientists from the University of Geneva and elsewhere found that vaccination greatly reduces infectious viral load in COVID-19. They measured the infectious viral load of...

This oral drug could reduce COVID-19 death risk by 55%

Scientists from Veru Inc., an oncology biopharmaceutical company, found a novel COVID-19 drug reduces deaths by 55% in patients at high risk for Acute...

Long COVID affects 1 in 5 people following infection

Vaccination, masks and better indoor air are our best protections. Many patients recover from COVID within a week or two, but at least one in five...

Is five days of COVID isolation enough?

When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in January it was shifting its recommended isolation period for people infected with COVID-19...

This drug is effective in COVID-19 patients

Scientists from Spain confirmed that a drug protease inhibitor aprotinin prevented cells to be infected by the COVID-19 virus. They found that patients receiving an...

Scientists find the cause of loss of smell in COVID-19

Scientists from Johns Hopkins Medicine found that inflammation caused by COVID-19, rather than the virus itself, may lead to loss of smell. They found that...

Heart inflammation rare in people with severe COVID-19

Scientists from Niguarda Hospital found heart inflammation occurred in about two out of every 1,000 people hospitalized with COVID-19, and was linked to more...

Vaccinated people get very mild breakthrough COVID infections

In a recent study published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, researchers found breakthrough COVID infections very mild for vaccinated people. They found that vaccinated adults...

Many people report neuropathy pain after COVID-19

Scientists from Washington University found many people who got COVID-19 in the early months of the pandemic experienced peripheral neuropathy—pain, tingling, and numbness in...