The heroic efforts of researchers and healthcare professionals globally will eventually help us gain control of the coronavirus pandemic and there will be a decrease in the rate of new infections. The […]
Coronavirus pandemic is paving the way for an increase in superbugs
Coronavirus: the puzzle of why the risk of death is greater for men and for the elderly
For COVID-19, age and sex appear to be strong predictors of who lives and who dies. The fatality rate for the disease is estimated to be 0.66%, according to data from China. In other […]
Study identifies 275 ways to reduce spread of coronavirus following lockdown
Phased re-opening of schools, businesses and open spaces should be considered alongside a range of practical ways to keep people physically apart, say the authors of a new study on how lockdown […]
China says nearly 1,300 virus deaths not counted in Wuhan, cites early lapses
Nearly 1,300 people who died of the coronavirus in the Chinese city of Wuhan, or half the total, were not counted in death tolls because of lapses, state media said on Friday, […]
Coronavirus: Why is Germany’s fatality rate so low?
Germany has received a great deal of attention for having a lower death rate for COVID-19 than most comparable European countries. A simple explanation for the low case-fatality rate in Germany is that […]
How to stop touching your face to minimize spread of coronavirus and other germs
Public health officials consistently promote hand-washing as a way for people to protect themselves from the COVID-19 coronavirus. However, this virus can live on metal and plastic for days, so simply adjusting your eyeglasses […]
BMJ study suggests 78% of people with Covid-19 don’t show symptoms
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread, with 1.4 million cases and almost 75,000 deaths reported worldwide as of April 7. To slow down the spread and reduce mortality, governments across the world […]
Aggressive Testing Is Vital to Controlling the Spread of COVID19 and Saving Europe’s Economy
In a novel approach to analysing the impact of the COVID19 pandemic sweeping the world, the Brussels and Washington DC based healthcare consultancy Vital Transformation (VT) compared the strategies adopted by several […]
What does lockdown mean for the future of our food supply?
With COVID-19 dominating the news for several weeks, many of us would have anticipated the inevitable lockdown announcement made by the UK Prime Minister on the 23rd March. There was quite rightly much […]
Can a mask protect me? Putting homemade masks in the hierarchy of controls
Kirsten Koehler, PhDAssociate ProfessorEnvironmental Health and EngineeringJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Ana Rule, PhDAssistant ProfessorEnvironmental Health and EngineeringJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health There has been a lot of talk over […]
Collaborating with tech companies is key for fighting COVID-19
Writing in Nature, the group from UCL, i-sense, Chatham House, Diagonal Works, Imperial College London and the London School for Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, led by Professor Rachel McKendry (UCL and Director of i-sense […]
Failing to coordinate against the coronavirus pandemic may be very costly for the world, says Stanford scholar
Just like you can’t treat a termite infestation by fumigating only one room in a house, you can’t control the coronavirus pandemic by targeting interventions to a specific region or country, says […]
How we lost our collective memory of epidemics
Gordon Dougan is a Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, and has spent his career leading research into vaccines, pathogen genomics and disease tracking. His research work has helped […]
Historical coronaviruses show evidence of seasonality & immunity
Using historical data, a UCL research team has found that levels of infection from three common coronaviruses appear to have followed a seasonal pattern in England, with peaks occurring during winter and […]
