Tag: coronavirus

Around 44% of the workers in the US earn low wages.

It's still too early to relax the quarantine, but countries are already working on plans to resume things gradually.

Half of the world is under strict orders to stay home. Now this...

They got some privacy and took advantage of it

There's a correlation between exposure to air pollution and death rates associated with coronavirus.

A new mathematical model finds a tipping point at 70-80% -- lower than that, the quarantine won't really work.

‘Shut down those things right away’ says Anthony Fauci.

Most health organizations now advise using face masks -- even if it's just improvised ones.

The findings highlight the importance of testing as many people as possible.

They are more vulnerable to the economic uncertainties brought by the outbreak

The coronavirus has a spike protein that it uses to infect cells -- its sequence has now been converted into ...

The drugs have severe side effects, and misuse has led to poisoning and even death.

While no cases have been confirmed so far, orangutans share 97% of our DNA so chances of transmission are high.

What's the best material for a mask? Here's what we dicovered.

The COVID-19 pandemic wasn't just likely -- it was inevitable. To avoid the next one, banning wildlife trade is essential.

Updates on the coronavirus situation in Malaysia.

Updates on the coronavirus situation in Pakistan.

COVID-19 is not an equalizer. It is disproportionately affecting at-risk people.

Over 33 million indigenous people from Latin America are faced with dangerous prospects.

There will be few positives to take from coronavirus. But the global pandemic may yet prove to be an important ...

Updates on the coronavirus situation in Washington.

Out of school time is associated with weight gain. The pandemic will likely cause an uptick in childhood obesity in ...

It's not clear whether people can get infected when an infected person expels aerosols through speech -- but it is ...

We can't have a healthy economy without healthy people.

Caribbean spiny lobsters normally live in groups, but healthy lobsters avoid members of their own species if they are infected ...

Social media is packed with suggestions that the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the globe is somehow connected to the implementation of ...

Most people are staying at home amid lockdown measures

It's not just about whether you get the virus or not -- the viral load might also have a role ...

This is potentially an important tool in our struggle against COVID-19, but it also leads to a slippery slope

More than 30 states have issue stay-at-home orders, but it's not enough.

This breather is not of our choice, though. After the pandemic is over, we should expect as a surge in ...

Updates on the coronavirus situation in New Zealand.

Updates on the coronavirus situation in India.

Updates on the coronavirus situation in the Netherlands.

Updates on the coronavirus situation in Nigeria.

Updates on the coronavirus situation in Brazil.

Businesses continue to lay off and furlough workers.

We know that outbreaks like coronavirus will become more common in the future and tackling them is the Apollo programme ...

China's number of coronavirus cases are suspiciously low. Now, a classified White House report sugests that the numbers have been ...

The vaccine injects fragments of the viral spikes that the coronavirus uses to infect people.

It's a surprising correlation which might offer more insight into why some countries are less vulnerable to the disease.

Updates on the coronavirus situation in Australia.

While many inmates have been forced to self-isolate for years, what will happen when the coronavirus eventually reaches prisons?

Luckily, our measures against COVID-19 works. Sadly, we need to bear through them a bit longer.

According to Prof. Bekeredjian-Ding, an approved mRNA coronavirus vaccine would be easier and faster to produce and thus deploy worldwide ...

Cells in the olfactory tissue express genes like those in the respiratory tract, where the coronavirus is most active.

It could be 12 months or even more, but we will have a vaccine.

Germany, like most other countries, is in dire need of qualified medical staff to fight COVID-19.

Many people are sharing false information that the new coronavirus is airborne. This is not true.

A new report from the Lancet finds a decrease in rates of death in COVID-19 cases but warns that even ...