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COVID-19 in young infants: Typically mild illness seen, Fever often only symptom

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A report from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago shows that infants under 90 days of age who tested positive for COVID-19 tend to be well, with little or no respiratory involvement....

COVID-19 risk increased with greater household crowding, lower neighborhood socioeconomic status

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A study of nearly 400 pregnant women in New York City is among the first to show that lower neighborhood socioeconomic status and greater household crowding increase the risk of becoming infected with...

SARS-CoV-2 transmission to animals: Monitoring needed to mitigate risk

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As evidence mounts for the possibility of SARS-CoV-2 infecting various animals, scientists at UCL say a global effort is needed to reduce the risk of the virus later returning to people. In a comment piece...

Face masks: Small droplets of saliva can emerge with some droplets traveling up to 1 meter: Study

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Face masks are thought to slow the spread of viruses, including the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, but little is known about how well they work. In an issue of Physics of Fluids, by AIP Publishing,...

TB: Animal to human transmission may be much higher than previously thought

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The number of human tuberculosis (TB) cases that are due to transmission from animals, as opposed to human-to-human transmission, may be much higher than previously estimated, according to an international...

Severe COVID-19 infection: One in five people globally have an underlying health condition that could increase their risk

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An estimated 1.7 billion people, 22% of the world population, have at least one underlying health condition that could increase their risk of severe COVID-19 if infected, according to a modelling study...

Scripps researchers isolate powerful coronavirus-neutralizing antibodies from COVID-19 patients and successfully test in animals

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A team led by Scripps Research has discovered antibodies in the blood of recovered COVID-19 patients that provide powerful protection against SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes the disease, when...

Texas A&M study: Face masks critical in preventing spread of COVID-19

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A study by a team of researchers led by a Texas A&M University professor has found that not wearing a face mask dramatically increases a person’s chances of being infected by the COVID-19 virus. Renyi...

Asymptomatic COVID-19 infections may account for as much as 45 percent of all cases

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An extraordinary percentage of people infected by the virus behind the ongoing deadly COVID-19 pandemic never show symptoms of the disease, according to the results of a Scripps Research analysis of...

COVID-19 testing: UNC-Chapel Hill researchers create new type of antibody test

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As the COVID-19 pandemic continues with many thousands of new infections reported each day, there is a need for widely applicable surveillance testing to gain a better understanding of infection rates,...