Covid-19 Stories
- After promising results, the FDA has pledged to move “as quickly as possible” to clear two vaccines for emergency use.
- Governments around the world have recommended or mandated various behaviors to slow the spread of COVID-19. These include staying at home, wearing face masks and practicing social distancing.
- A new app identifies for cancer patients the least risky time they could contract Covid-19 when receiving their cancer treatments.
- With Covid cases shooting skyward, many states have imposed new restrictions. Thanksgiving travel is doable; just know what's up regarding where you're going.
- A new project is unfolding in Atlanta to combat suicide risk and loneliness in older adults hit by Covid-19.
- Covid news from the past few days has not been totally depressing.
- Primary school children are falling behind; an Oxford study found that school closures due to national lockdowns are to blame.
- Sharks have a substance in their livers, already used in a flu vaccine, the could end up in the COVID-19 vaccine.
- The road to a COVID vaccine: It's been a long, strange trip, and the road keeps getting longer.
- It’s time to put nutrition on the frontline of the COVID-19 war, says this professor of healthy ageing.
- According to a new study at the Washington University School of Medicine, the SARS-CoV-2 infection rate is almost 16 times higher among patients at the OB-GYN than others at the surgical units.
- Scientists' springtime predictions regarding the severity of the virus' spread this fall and winter have come true.