Tag: SARS-CoV-2

In Los Angeles County, ambulance crews are being told to conserve oxygen and to not take certain trauma and cardiac ...

As the omicron variant brings a new wave of uncertainty and fear, I can’t help reflecting back to March 2020, ...

The pandemic has brought many tricky terms and ideas from epidemiology into everyone’s lives. Two particularly complicated concepts are vaccine ...

As winter begins and the holidays are in full swing, the COVID-19 pandemic has entered another worrying phase. Emergence of ...

Leveraging ventilation and filtration has been an underutilized strategy for many residents throughout the pandemic because of the technical know-how ...

A vaccinated person is less likely to get COVID in the first instance, is less contagious, and is contagious for ...

Last week, AstraZeneca’s chief executive officer said the company’s COVID vaccine may provide longer-lasting protection than mRNA vaccines like Pfizer’s, ...

A virus evolution expert explains what researchers know and what they don’t about the new coronavirus variant of concern. A ...

Charting changes in a pathogen’s genome yields clues about its past and hints about its future More than 250 million ...

The findings point to the need for mRNA-1273 booster vaccination to sustain high-level and rapid protection in the lung and ...

While developing a rapid test that detects the coronavirus in someone’s saliva, Blink Science, a Florida-based startup, heard something startling: ...

COVID-19 is both contracted and transmitted by inhalation of droplets or aerosols containing the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and the nose is ...

Now that kids ages 5 to 11 are eligible for COVID-19 vaccination and the number of fully vaccinated people in ...

New research from the US has shown that white-tailed deer are being infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 ...

AZ HEROES study finds first responders have higher incidence of COVID-19 infection, supporting need for increased vaccination and mitigation measures ...

In this multistate analysis of hospitalizations for COVID-19–like illness among adults aged 18 years or older during January–September 2021 whose ...

The lack of vaccine production capacity in African countries has been the subject of much concern and hand-wringing in the ...

Wastewater-based epidemiology, which represents the collective waste of the human population in a given locale, can detect viral pathogens and ...

Many Americans now have the green light to get a COVID-19 vaccine booster – and the flexibility to receive a ...

Scientists have long known that ultraviolet light can kill pathogens on surfaces and in air and water. UV robots are ...