The U.K. has developed several strategies to stop the spreading of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The cold season is slowly approaching Europe, and concerns are that the highly contagious Delta variant and the flu season will create a double pandemic. Vaccine ...
The Covid-19 pandemic is not likely to end soon, and, as a recent statement from WHO experts mentions, the virus will most likely continue to evolve and stay with us, much like the common cold or the influenza virus. At ...
The Mu variant originated in Colombia at the beginning of 2021, and it has now been identified in over 42 countries. The WHO classified the B.1.621 as a variant of interest, but it could potentially become a variant of concern, ...
The World Health Organisation classifies the Nipah virus as a priority disease that must be prevented because it could start an epidemic. Recent infections cases have been detected in India, where a 12 years old boy died after contracting the ...
The Covid-19 pandemic has been hard to handle for governments worldwide, and many countries resorted to drastic measures in order to prevent outbreaks. A man in Vietnam was accused of infecting eight people with the new coronavirus, and one of ...
A lot of people prefer to believe that it’s safe to smoke cannabis from time to time. But in reality, pretty much everything that causes addiction is also bad for you. A new study brings bad news for some of ...
Health experts and epidemiologists have been working around the clock since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. It has been a difficult task to monitor all SARS-CoV-2 variants and predict and create future scenarios. However, indicators that could help with ...
Students who want to take a mental health day will not be needed to present their school with a doctor’s note beginning January 1, as per a measure signed into law by Governor J.B. Pritzker. Moreover, students will be permitted ...
A potential Johnson & Johnson HIV vaccine finally had its trial. Unfortunately for researchers, the results were not as good as they expected. On Monday, Johnson & Johnson said it would halt its clinical trial of the experimental HIV vaccine ...
The number of solid organ transplants dropped considerably across the globe over the past two years, researchers discovered. One of the main culprits to that is the impact of the pandemic on health services and patients. As the pandemic emerged, ...
The CDC’s vaccine advisory panel is concerned about the Biden administration’s strategy for introducing the booster shots for the Covid-19 vaccine. They argued that the decision to re-start immunization came too quickly and could fuel public concerns that vaccines are ...
A new English study reveals that the new Delta COVID-19 variant is more dangerous as it can double the number of hospitalizations compared to the alpha variant. The delta variant is more severe, as well as more infectious. The finding, ...
An American COVID-19 patient has temporarily lost his vision in one of his eyes, leading researchers to study a possible link between impeded vision and COVID-19. The report was created by a team of doctors from the Columbia University Vagelos ...
The respiratory virus that can provoke intense illness in toddlers and adults older than 65 is spreading at an alarming pace in the Midwest and South. It’s the second time this summer when cases of RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus) are ...
The COVID-19 pandemic was an event none of us could have anticipated. However, it appears that the statistical possibility of another pandemic occurring is not as low as we would have imagined. Researchers have put together a new statistical study, ...
An important milestone has been reached by COVID-19 vaccine. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has become the first Coronavirus vaccine to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The vaccine was approved for those who are 16 years old and older. ...
Just at the end of last month, New York City officials announced that municipal public workers would have to get vaccinated or face weekly testing for the Covid-19 virus. The list of public workers included teachers and police officers. New York ...
The new school year has a rough beginning as many parents and health experts debate the best way to return to school safely. The well-being of children is the most important aspect, but given the new infectious variants of COVID-19 ...
The Danish Health Authority has announced today that those with a weak immune system who have been already fully vaccinated can receive the third jab. The European country is not the first one to recommend so. Israel has already started ...
A new study focused on the two most administered Covid-19 vaccines: Pfizer-BioNTech and AstraZeneca. Scientists analyzed how these two vaccines protect the immune system against several SARS-CoV-2 strains, including the dominant one in the U.S. The British Study used more than three ...
The pandemic has had many twists and turns ever since it took over the world 18 months ago. Recently, the newest worry for many people is the breakthrough infection, a newly coined term that refers to the Coronavirus infections that ...
The Delta variant has spread fear worldwide due to its high transmissibility rate and the different symptoms it can trigger. A recent report from Pfizer revealed that the vaccine is only 83.7 % effective after four to six months of ...
Connecticut has a total of over 363,000 infections and more than 8,300 deaths caused by COVID-19 since the very first outbreak of the virus, according to worldometers.info. The American state is far behind much harder-hit states such as California, Texas, ...
COVID-19 has managed to put our lives on hold. 2020 has been a year of change, and we’re still adjusting in 2021. With the new variant in the world, people get more and more scared, and the vaccine seems to ...
The cold season is slowly approaching, and beyond the never-ending threat of the pandemic, people will also have to deal with seasonal issues such as the cold. Those who want to be protected against both have to wonder whether it ...