A second wave of the new coronavirus is unlikely in Denmark as the reproduction rate has stayed below a key threshold since restrictions were eased a month ago, a top health expert said Tuesday. The reproduction rate has fallen from 1.0 at the end of April to 0.7 in the first week in May, according […]
In addition to coughing and a fever, other potential COVID-19 symptoms are now being reported including a loss of smell, purple toes, vomiting and diarrhoea. A leading figure helping China fight the SARS epidemic back in 2013 who caught the virus himself, believed he became infected as he was not wearing the appropriate protective eyewear. Wang Guagnfa said […]
Heartbreaking photos show California baby girl, 6 months, who is the first US child confirmed with both coronavirus and Kawasaki disease, with a full body rash and swollen hands and feet Baby Zara, 6 months, from California, was diagnosed with Kawasaki disease, a condition that causes blood vessel inflammation and can lead to heart failure […]
COVID-19: early warning signs for severe disease courses The number of people infected with the novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, no longer rising as strongly as a few weeks ago. Not all persons infected with the pathogen, fall ill. But there are also serious disease that is often fatal. A new urine test is now to help, […]
You may have read that a more aggressive and contagious form of coronavirus is making its way across the United States. But experts say there’s no need to worry about a potentially more harmful strain of the virus, according to NPR. Here’s how the news spread A study from the Los Alamos National Laboratory concluded […]
High levels of social distancing would lower the COVID-19 infection, hospitalization and death rates over the next six months across all counties in Missouri, finds a new study from Washington University in St. Louis. Although death rates will be lower than in urban areas due to lower population density, rural areas will see significant numbers […]
As Australia starts to emerge from its coronavirus lockdown, authorities are on high alert for any fresh breakouts of the disease. One of the risks we need to keep an eye on is hard to see: the tens of thousands of unlawful migrants who work here every day without a valid visa. My research shows […]
Mutant strain of coronavirus that makes it more infectious has ‘dominated’ the US and Europe – and vaccines in development may NOT work against it, study suggests Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists in New Mexico have been tracking the evolution of the coronavirus and its mutations A significant mutation emerged in March in Europe, and […]
Asthma often results in wheezing, coughing, heaving chest, difficulty in breathing/shortness of breath, blurred vision, chapped lips, dry mouth and an intense feeling of discomfort and claustrophobia. World Asthma Day, celebrated on the second Tuesday of May every year, is a campaign which has been created with the objective of making people more aware about […]
(HealthDay)—The virus that causes COVID-19 typically strikes the lungs with full force, but new research shows it can also cause frostbite-like patches on the hands and toes, and rashes on the body. The condition has recently been dubbed “COVID toes.” Fortunately, it isn’t serious and the lesions usually disappear on their own, said Dr. Esther […]
