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scRNA-seq of SARS-CoV-2 infected lung organoids finds NFKB Inhibitor Alpha increased in infected cells

Researchers develop a genetically modified airway organoid system, which overcomes challenges related to natural variations in ACE2 levels

4 Aug 2022

How does the flu vaccine affect the risk of contracting COVID-19?

A new study describes the association between the risk of contracting COVID-19 and the seasonal flu vaccine.

4 Aug 2022

Twitter scraping tool reveals an “infodemic” of misinformation during the first year of COVID pandemic

More than 225,000 tweets with the hashtags #scamdemic and #plandemic led to an "infodemic" of misinformation and disinformation on Twitter during the first year of the pandemic, according to a study by UT Southwestern researchers published in PLOS ONE.

4 Aug 2022

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Kansas makes a statement

Voters in Kansas told the rest of the country this week that they don't want their state to ban abortion. In a nearly 60%-40% split, voters turned back an effort by anti-abortion activists to amend the state constitution to remove its right to abortion, which would have allowed the legislature to ban the procedure.

4 Aug 2022

What is the severity of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 variant infections in relation to BA.2 infections?

Researchers compared clinical outcomes of COVID-19 cases due to SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2 and Omicron BA.4/BA.5 variants based on the Kaiser Permanente Southern California (KPSC) health records between April 29 and July 2, 2022.

4 Aug 2022

What is the viral rebound in untreated COVID-19 infections?

Researchers assessed the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) rebound in untreated COVID-19 infections.

4 Aug 2022

Novel tool measures general and COVID‐19-specific sources of nurses' moral distress

The COVID‐19 pandemic created novel patient care circumstances that may have increased nurses' moral distress, including COVID‐19 transmission risk and end‐of‐life care without family present. Moral distress is a growing concern in healthcare with implications for both provider and patient outcomes.

4 Aug 2022

Johns Hopkins Medicine-led consortium awarded up to $200 million to address the global burden of tuberculosis

To address the global burden of tuberculosis (TB), one of humankind's oldest scourges, an international collaboration led by Johns Hopkins Medicine has today been awarded up to $200 million in research funding over five years by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Supporting, Mobilizing and Accelerating Research for Tuberculosis Elimination (SMART4TB) project.

4 Aug 2022

Study highlights the urgency of removing barriers to accessing medications for opioid use disorder

The opioid overdose and death epidemic continues to worsen across the United States, but medications such as methadone, buprenorphine, and extended-release naltrexone are proven to reduce opioid overdoses by more than 50 percent.

4 Aug 2022

What is the impact of COVID-19 on children's media usage?

Researchers assessed the media usage by children during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

4 Aug 2022

New easy-to-use test could rapidly diagnose heart attacks and cancers

Imperial researchers have built a new easy-to-use test that could diagnose non-infectious diseases like heart attacks and cancers more quickly.

4 Aug 2022

Higher suPAR levels linked with increased risk of blood clot formation

Blood clots are thought to occur in as many as a third of patients hospitalized with COVID-19. In many cases these clots can be deadly, such as pulmonary embolisms-;blood clots that travel to the lungs. In fact, in nearly one third of patients with COVID-19, these clots led to death.

4 Aug 2022

Clinical and demographic inequalities in COVID-19-associated mortality

Researchers quantified the relative and absolute changes in COVID-19-related mortality based on clinical and demographical profiles of 18 million adult patients throughout the pandemic in England.

4 Aug 2022

Scientists develop nanoparticle-based biosensing device for rapid and ultrasensitive detection of SARS-CoV-2

Researchers developed a gold nanoparticle-based biosensing device for rapid and ultrasensitive detection of SARS-CoV-2 in point-of-care settings.

4 Aug 2022

Large-scale serological survey of SARS-CoV-2 in multiple rodent species across Europe

Scientists conducted SARS-CoV-2 sero-surveillance in wild rodents across Europe.

4 Aug 2022

Was there a benefit of vaccinating health care workers with a fourth dose of BNT162b2 vaccine during the Omicron outbreak?

Researchers analyzed the effectiveness of the fourth dose of the SARS-CoV-2 BNT162b2 vaccination against the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron infection in medical professionals in Israel.

4 Aug 2022

Epidemic model shows that intermediate levels of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection lead to the highest levels of epidemic fatalities

Researchers used a simplified epidemic model to demonstrate that asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection leads to most fatalities.

4 Aug 2022

covid 19 News and Research

scRNA-seq of SARS-CoV-2 infected lung organoids finds NFKB Inhibitor Alpha increased in infected cells

How does the flu vaccine affect the risk of contracting COVID-19?

Twitter scraping tool reveals an “infodemic” of misinformation during the first year of COVID pandemic

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Kansas makes a statement

What is the severity of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 variant infections in relation to BA.2 infections?

What is the viral rebound in untreated COVID-19 infections?

Novel tool measures general and COVID‐19-specific sources of nurses' moral distress

Johns Hopkins Medicine-led consortium awarded up to $200 million to address the global burden of tuberculosis

Study highlights the urgency of removing barriers to accessing medications for opioid use disorder

What is the impact of COVID-19 on children's media usage?

New easy-to-use test could rapidly diagnose heart attacks and cancers

Higher suPAR levels linked with increased risk of blood clot formation

Clinical and demographic inequalities in COVID-19-associated mortality

Scientists develop nanoparticle-based biosensing device for rapid and ultrasensitive detection of SARS-CoV-2

Large-scale serological survey of SARS-CoV-2 in multiple rodent species across Europe

Was there a benefit of vaccinating health care workers with a fourth dose of BNT162b2 vaccine during the Omicron outbreak?

Epidemic model shows that intermediate levels of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection lead to the highest levels of epidemic fatalities

Can high-dose coenzyme Q10 reduce the number and severity of post-COVID-19 condition-related symptoms?

Study uses digital technology to evaluate antibody response following COVID-19 boosters

A combined influenza and COVID-19 mRNA vaccine

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