Covid-19 was in America BEFORE Being Officially Confirmed in China, According to Study
headline image caption/credit: Patient being treated from Covid-19 at Roseland Community Hospital in Chicago. © Reuters / Shannon Stapleton via RT: Coronavirus had been infecting people in the US even before China reported its first cases on December 31, 2019, research by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Red Cross has revealed. American medics … Continue reading
Type O Blood Linked to Lower Risk of Getting Covid-19, Taking Vitamin D Unlikely to Help
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) – The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. Certain blood groups less likely to get COVID-19 A large study adds to evidence that people with type O or Rh−negative blood may be … Continue reading
Study Indicates Coronavirus Was Circulating in Italy Since September 2019
Giselda Vagnoni Reuters The new coronavirus was circulating in Italy since September 2019, a study by the National Cancer Institute (INT) of the Italian city of Milan shows, signaling that COVID-19 might have spread beyond China earlier than previously thought. The World Health Organization has said the new coronavirus and COVID-19, the respiratory disease it causes, were unknown before the … Continue reading
COVID-19 Mutant Strain More Infectious, But More Susceptible to Vaccine Than Original
A new study published in the journal Science reveals that a mutated strain of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, replicates faster than the original strain of the virus that spread at the beginning of the pandemic from China. The study found that the new virus strain, called D614G, which first emerged in Europe and has become the most prevalent … Continue reading
Asymptomatic Patient Shed Infectious COVID-19 Particles For at Least 70 Days – Study
A new case study published in the journal Cell reveals that a 71-year-old hospital patient diagnosed with COVID-19 in Kirkland, Washington, who also had leukemia, shed infectious particles of the respiratory virus for at least 70 days without showing any symptoms of the disease. According to the study, the patient continued to shed infectious particles of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that … Continue reading
We Will Have to Live With Coronavirus for ‘Evermore,’ – UK Expert on Govt’s Advisory Committee
John Edmunds, a British epidemiologist on the government’s Covid-19 advisory committee, warned UK lawmakers that there is very little chance of the coronavirus being eliminated. He said vaccines could slow its spread, however. “We are going to have to live with this virus for evermore. There is very little chance that it’s going to become eradicated,” Edmunds, a member of … Continue reading
Moderate to Severe COVID-19 Infections May Reduce Fertility in Men – Study
Israeli researchers have found that some men infected with the COVID-19 novel coronavirus may experience reduced fertility. A new study led by Dr. Dan Aderka, head of the Gastrointestinal Cancer Service at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel, detected the virus in the sperm of some 13% of screened male COVID-19 patients. Researchers also detected a 50% decline in … Continue reading
Long-Term COVID-19 Symptoms Likely Includes Increased Hair Loss, Study Finds
A recent study conducted by a doctor at the Indiana University School of Medicine and a grassroots COVID-19 survivor group known as Survivor Corps, has identified dozens of potential long-term COVID-19 symptoms, including hair loss. Using a poll on the Survivor Corps Facebook group, the survey identified 98 symptoms associated with COVID-19, according to Dr. Natalie Lambert, an associate research … Continue reading
Coronavirus Causes Infected Cells to Sprout ‘Sinister’ Tentacles to Quickly Travel the Body
The new coronavirus’ reputation for messing with scientists’ assumptions has taken a truly creepy turn. Researchers exploring the interaction between the coronavirus and its hosts have discovered that when the SARS-CoV-2 virus infects a human cell, it sets off a ghoulish transformation. Obeying instructions from the virus, the newly infected cell sprouts multi-pronged tentacles studded with viral particles. These disfigured … Continue reading
Covid-19 Present in Spanish Sewage as Early as MARCH 2019, According to Study
Traces of the novel coronavirus have been discovered in Barcelona sewage water months before the first case of the dreaded disease was reported in China, claims a new study by a group of Spanish researchers. Scientists with the Enteric Virus Group at the University of Barcelona detected the presence of the virus in frozen samples of the city’s wastewater collected … Continue reading