Chinese doctors are seeing the coronavirus manifest differently among patients in its new cluster of cases in the northeast region compared to the original outbreak in Wuhan, suggesting that the pathogen may be changing in unknown ways and complicating efforts to stamp it out.
The old saying goes: "There's strength in numbers." And now, it turns out numbers may be the greatest defense against the spread of COVID-19. It's a concept called herd immunity: Once enough people become immune to the novel coronavirus, it can't spread easily throughout the population.
Children’s National Hospital is treating 23 children for an inflammatory syndrome associated with covid-19, a hospital spokesperson said Wednesday night. The illness, known as multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, is a recently discovered complication from the novel coronavirus.
COVID-19 took Tony Arms’ job on March 20. He never dreamed a few days later it would threaten his life, too. Like so many during the coronavirus pandemic shutdown, Arms felt the ripple effect at work well before he felt a tightness in his chest. Once Ford Motor Company shut down production, his job trucking parts for them became irrelevant. The 44-year-old left his final day at work and headed to Kroger across the Ohio River near his Clarksville, Indiana, home.
A Colorado mom hospitalized for 21 days died Tuesday without seeing her husband or two children, despite the family’s repeated requests for an exception to the policy.
A deep dive into how the new coronavirus infects cells has found that it orchestrates a hostile takeover of their genes unlike any other known viruses do, producing what one leading scientist calls "unique" and "aberrant" changes.