In Kentucky, there are more than 272,000 people caring for someone with Alzheimer’s disease. If you are one of those people, the person you are caring for is considered high risk for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Most persons living with Alzheimer’s are over the age of 65 (one risk factor), and most persons over 65 […]
Social conditions determine the COVID-19-mortality rate? A German research team was looking for reasons why the mortality rate varies by the Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 from country to country so strong. While in Germany on 15. March 2020 the mortality rate at below 0.3 per cent., the mortality in Italy at the same time, around six percent. […]
Homemade cloth masks aren’t ideal, but given the present shortages of medical-grade protective gear in the midst of a pandemic, they may be the best option for some people. The new coronavirus, named SARS-CoV-2, is a dangerous, airborne illness. It has already spread to 169 countries, including in the United States. Its rapid spread and […]
How fast could COVID-19 spread in Australia? And how many people could potentially be infected? We can’t of course know for sure, but we have enough data to make some rough forecasts; and being forewarned is to be forearmed. So we’ve developed an interactive website that gives a ten-day forecast, by country, on likely numbers […]
What do stress, loneliness and lack of sleep have in common? They are all factors that can weaken your immune system and make you more susceptible to COVID-19, according to Rice University’s Christopher Fagundes, an associate professor in the department of psychological sciences who studies the link between mental and immune health. Fagundes is available […]
The World Health Organization has been criticized for being slow to declare a public health emergency and a pandemic as COVID-19 spread. Yale SOM’s Saed Alizamir, with Francis de Véricourt of ESMT and Shouqiang Wang of the University of Texas at Dallas, recently published a study that uses game theory to play out the tradeoffs […]
The race is on to find a vaccine against the new COVID-19 coronavirus. Professor Jonathan Heeney explains why a cautious approach is needed and how his team is using new technology developed for influenza and Ebola viruses to target the new infection. It is hard now to conceive that two months ago, few people had […]
Coronavirus has spread rapidly around the globe. Since COVID-19 was discovered in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, the virus has spread across the world. There have been more than 180,000 cases of the latest strain of the virus and cases in the UK are continuing to rise every day. What are the symptoms of coronavirus? […]
The World Health Organization has declared the COVID-19 outbreak to be a pandemic. The constant flow of news from all types of media may heighten fears about the disease. People need facts to protect themselves from contacting the infection, but information overload can spur excessive worry. Dr. Sheila Jowsey-Gregoire, a Mayo Clinic psychiatrist, says anxiety […]
Infectious disease outbreaks have killed more people than hurricanes, wildfires or earthquakes. The 1918 influenza pandemic was the most severe pandemic in recent history, with death estimates ranging as high as 50 million worldwide. Almost 700,000 deaths occurred in the U.S.; in some cases, entire families died. Because these events are so outside our understanding […]
