by London Medical Laboratory Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Now it’s “longer COVID.” New figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show 30% of long COVID sufferers have had symptoms for more than two years. New cases of long COVID are also increasing just as the new “Kraken” XBB1.5 subvariant looks set to sweep the U.K. The...
by Bruce Goldman, Stanford University Graphical abstract. Credit: Cell (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2022.11.030 Somebody just coughed on you. On a plane. At a dinner party. In a supermarket line. If only there were a “morning after” nasal spray that could knock out respiratory viruses’ ability to colonize your nose and throat. In a study published January 5 in...
By Rich Haridy January 08, 2023 Researchers are attempting to understand the risk factors that make different people more susceptible to various long COVID symptoms Depositphotos Using machine learning to track symptom clusters in around 35,000 COVID patients, researchers have identified four distinct types of long COVID. The findings suggest long COVID is a diverse disease with...
Science Press Trust of India Updated: January 03, 2023 12:22 pm IST The SARS-CoV-2 virus spreads to the brain, and lingers for almost eight months (Representational)Washington: The SARS-CoV-2 virus spreads throughout the body, including the brain, and lingers for almost eight months, shows an analysis of tissue samples from the autopsies of people who died...
THE CONVERSATION – 1/5/2023, 8:34 AM Enlarge / Symptoms of long COVID-19 include fatigue, shortness of breath, and cognitive issues. Getty Images / ArtistGNDphotography The big idea Even mild COVID-19 cases can have major and long-lasting effects on people’s health. That is one of the key findings from our recent multicountry study on long COVID-19—or long COVID—recently published in...
THEARA COLEMAN 10:53 AM Scott Olson / Staff/Getty Images A new COVID-19 Omicron subvariant is causing concern among scientists monitoring the virus’s spread and evolution, CNN reports. On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s COVID-19 variant dashboard revealed startling data concerning a variant with features that could encourage a surge of COVID cases...
by Jim Wappes, University of Minnesota RNA in situ (RNAscope) detection of SARS-CoV-2 in extrapulmonary tissues. a–h, SARS-CoV-2 virus is localized to the Golgi and endoplasmic reticulum, perinuclear in appearance, in the following organs and cell types (×500 magnifications, scale bars, 2 μm, all panels): thyroid of P19, demonstrating the presence of virus in follicular cells...
by Lindsey Tanner This photo provided by Amy Watson of Portland, Ore., shows her during an iron infusion in December 2022. Watson, approaching 50, says she has “never had any kind of recovery” from COVID-19. She has had severe migraines, plus digestive, nerve and foot problems. Recently she developed severe anemia. Credit: Amy Watson via...
By Kelsey Ables; December 22, 2022 at 5:45 a.m. EST Persistent loss of smell has left some covid-19 survivors yearning for the scent of their freshly bathed child or a waft of their once-favorite meal. It’s left others inured to the stink of garbage and accidentally drinking spoiled milk. “Anosmia,” as experts call it, is one...
Damian McNamara December 16, 2022 It’s a story perhaps more appropriate for Halloween than for the festive holiday season, given its scary implications. Four Omicron subvariants of the virus that causes COVID-19 will be the most common strains going from person to person this winter, new research predicts. Not too dire so far, until you consider what...
