The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the urgency of understanding how public transportation ventilation systems transmit viruses and how exhaled droplets evolve in ventilated spaces. Researchers have wondered if those ventilation systems can…
A novel approach to testing for the presence of the virus that causes Covid-19 may lead to tests that are faster, less expensive, and potentially less prone to erroneous results than existing…
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the hardy bacterial species that causes tuberculosis (TB), has an unexpected vulnerability that future drugs may be able to exploit, according to a study from researchers at Weill Cornell…
A COVID-19 antibody survey conducted in Sierra Leone is the first nationally representative investigation of COVID-19 seroprevalence conducted on the African continent and presents evidence of large-scale underreporting of cases and low…
Sneezes, rain clouds, and ink jet printers: They all produce or contain liquid droplets so tiny it would take several billion of them to fill a liter bottle. Measuring the volume, motion…
The latest analysis of Liverpool City Region’s Covid-SMART community testing programme released yesterday, December 21, reveals insights that will help policymakers, public health teams and the public with community approaches to Covid-19…
Alcohol sales and consumption increased during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the effect of the increase in consumption on population health is not fully understood. In new research published in Hepatology,…
A team of scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has conducted one of the first comparisons of how effectively each of the three COVID-19 vaccines authorized or approved in the United States…
Researchers with the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rochester are studying how the brain puts the ‘brakes’ on behavior. That may be different in individuals recovering from cocaine addiction and…
mRNA Vaccines Highly Effective at Preventing Death from Covid-19, Less Effective at Preventing Infection A target trial emulation study found that in an elderly population of U.S. veterans with high comorbidity burden,…