Tag: SARS-CoV-2
Is That A Persistent Cold, Bad Allergies, … or Long COVID?
Some people infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can have symptoms of the illness lasting years. The syndrome is called long COVID,...
Some Wish To Stop Using COVID Medication For This Reason
Analysis reveals the signature of the antiviral drug molnupiravir in SARS-CoV-2 sequences riddled with mutations.
A drug widely used to treat COVID-19 might...
How Is Long Covid Diagnosed In Adults?
Long COVID has affected nearly 1.40 million Canadian residents.
Women (18.0%) showed a greater likelihood compared to men (12.0%) of reporting persistent symptoms.
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How Your First COVID Exposure Damages Your Immune
When the Omicron coronavirus variant broke out in the summer of 2022, friends and family of immunologist Bob Seder kept asking him if they...
Why COVID’s XBB.1.5 ‘Kraken’ Variant is So Contagious?
A new, rapidly spreading variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, means a rise in new infections could be around the corner. And...
Covid Autopsies Reveal Virus Spread In Entire Body
COVID Autopsies Reveal The Virus Spreading Through The 'Entire Body', says a Science Alert news article.
Effects of the novel coronavirus
COVID-19 is defined as a respiratory...
COVID-19 Link To A 72% Rise in Type 1 Diabetes
A pair of studies released within days of one another have produced conflicting reports related to the apparent increase in type 1 diabetes diagnoses...
Scientists Develop New Antibody To Neutralize All Known COVID Variants
As SARS-CoV-2 has evolved and mutated, therapeutic antibodies that worked early in the pandemic have become less effective, and newer variants, especially Omicron, have...
SARS-Related Coronaviruses Hitting 66,000 People Each Year
About 66,000 people in Southeast Asia are infected each year with SARS-related coronaviruses, and nearly 500 million people live near habitats where bat hosts...
COVID Is Quickly Evolving. Why Isn’t There A Reaction From Us?
A transmission-electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron virus particles (pink) replicating within the cytoplasm of an infected CCL-81 cell (teal).
Then, if you had...