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Lateral Flow Tests Detect Most People At Risk Of Transmitting Covid-19
However, a new study has found lateral flow tests are more accurate than previously reported and cannot be compared directly to how PCR tests work.
Study Finds Children To Be Vectors Of Covid-19 And Emerging Variants
A new study by researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, MIT and Harvard Medical School has found that infants, children and adolescents are equally capable of carrying high levels of live, replicating SARS-CoV-2 in…
Blockchain Technology, A Practical Solution To Vaccine Verification Systems
Though many countries around the world have developed their own vaccine verification systems, often evolved from previous contact tracing apps, developing a reliable, secure and accurate system remains a challenge.
Is This Petri Dish Looking At Me?
One of the more significant advances in understanding human organs is the ability to grow miniature versions of human organs. Of all the organs of interest, however, the brain is possibly the most interesting and cryptic.
Covid-19 Variation: Past, Present, And Future
This is the first in a three-part series examining the past, present, and future of the pandemic and viral variants.
Children Are Losing Parents And Caregivers To Covid At An Alarming Rate
A new modeling study published in Pediatrics by a CDC-led team has revealed that one U.S. child loses a parent or caregiver for every four COVID-19-associated deaths.
Will Covid Overwhelm Our Vaccines
Determining how effectively your vaccine may be protecting you from symptomatic illness, severe disease, or death is not a simple yes or no equation — it’s conditional.
Anti-Covid Drugs Are Coming, But At What Cost?
The possibility of a new drug to ward off the most serious symptoms of Covid-19 is welcome news, but it may come with two important costs.
Successful Multimodal Covid Control In Summer Camps
A new CDC report demonstrates how using multiple Covid-19 prevention strategies at nine US overnight summer camps was highly effective in preventing transmission of Covid-19, even in the wake of the Delta variant.
America’s New Triage: Covid Crisis Standards Of Care
When crisis standards of care are invoked statewide, as they are today, it is a grim admission that the entire health system is overwhelmed.
