Category: COVID
SARS-CoV-2 infection linked to rapid plaque growth in coronary arteries
Medical News A new study found severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection was associated with the rapid growth of plaque in the coronary arteries and an increased risk of cardiovascular events. The results were published today in Radiology, a journal of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). According to Dr. Ge, this systemic inflammation produces […]
Feb 12, 2025
The U.S. Is Having Its Mildest Covid Winter Yet
NYT But there have been plenty of other illnesses to go around. This winter’s Covid wave in the United States has been the gentlest to date, in a welcome reprieve. According to wastewater data aggregated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, not only was there less Covid circulating over the holidays than in previous years, […]
Feb 4, 2025
What to Know About Covid Right Now
NYT Experts expect cases to rise again this winter. Here’s the latest on symptoms, treatments and testing. There are few constants when it comes to Covid, but one thing has held true over the years: Cases climb in the winter. In the weeks after the holidays, especially, more people tend to get sick, as we […]
Jan 28, 2025
COVID-19: It has been five years since the first case in America. What’s it like today?
USA Today Five years ago Monday, someone was identified with COVID-19 for the first time on American soil. In the years since, 1.2 million Americans have died from the virus, and more than 7 million worldwide. On Jan. 20, 2020, laboratory tests confirmed that man in his 30s who had recently returned from Wuhan, China, was infected […]
Jan 22, 2025
The mystery of why Covid-19 seems to be becoming milder
BBC Covid-19 is now ubiquitous – but hospitalisations seem to be on a downward trajectory. No one knows why. When virologists took their first peek at XEC, the Covid-19 variant which started to become dominant in the autumn of 2024, the early signs were ominous. The latest descendant of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, XEC had arisen […]
Jan 15, 2025
Long COVID indeed: Symptoms linger after illness for four in 10 Minnesotans
Star Tribune State surveyors struggled to get Minnesotans to talk about their post-COVID health, but found a high rate of symptoms such as fatigue and brain fog. Four in 10 Minnesotans who contracted COVID-19 reported in a new state survey that they struggled with lingering health problems like fatigue and brain fog for months after […]
Jan 15, 2025
COVID tests: Do at-home tests work on newer variants?
Harvard Health If you develop respiratory symptoms, you may worry that you have COVID-19. One easy way to check is with an at-home COVID test. These tests are widely available at drugstores, supermarkets, and online retailers like Amazon. Here’s a closer look at at-home COVID tests: how they work, when to test, and how to get […]
Jan 8, 2025
Norovirus, Covid And RSV Are Surging This Winter. Here’s What To Know.
Forbes Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control shows spikes in norovirus, Covid-19 and RSV across the U.S.—a resurgence that’s potentially unlike the usual annual winter spread of these illnesses, which have been less active in recent months. Norovirus is a contagious virus that typically presents as projectile vomiting and diarrhea after ingesting contaminated food or […]
Jan 2, 2025
5 things we know and still don’t know about COVID, 5 years after it appeared
AP Five years ago, a cluster of people in Wuhan, China, fell sick with a virus never before seen in the world. The germ didn’t have a name, nor did the illness it would cause. It wound up setting off a pandemic that exposed deep inequities in the global health system and reshaped public opinion […]
Jan 2, 2025
We must revisit the covid-19 pandemic to prepare for future outbreaks
New Scientist Yes, it really has been five years. On 7 January 2020, we published an article with the headline “Doctors scramble to identify mysterious illness emerging in China”. By then, at least 59 people had been infected with what we now know to be SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind covid-19. The rest is – well, has now […]
Jan 2, 2025