by Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health An analysis of publicly available data on infections from the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, that causes the respiratory illness COVID-19 yielded an estimate of 5.1 days for the median disease incubation period, according to a new study led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public...
A rapid surge in coronavirus cases saw South Korea become one of the world’s worst-affected countries outside China, but it has since cut infection rates significantly and has one of the lowest fatality rates anywhere. This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 — also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19 — isolated from...
Summary of a Report of 72 314 Cases From the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention Zunyou Wu, MD, PhD1; Jennifer M. McGoogan, PhD1 Author Affiliations Article Information JAMA. Published online February 24, 2020. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.2648 The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention recently published the largest case series to date of coronavirus disease 2019...
by Bob Yirka , Medical Xpress A team of researchers from the Westlake Institute for Advanced Study in Hangzhou, Westlake University and Tsinghua University has produced a high-resolution image of SARS-CoV-2 during the initial phase of infection of a human cell. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes how they captured...
by Julian Hunt and John Gammon, The Conversation With the number of people infected with coronavirus increasing around the world on a daily basis, the World Health Organization (WHO) has advised everyone to regularly and thoroughly clean their hands. This can be either with an alcohol-based hand rub or with soap and water. The hope...
By Angela Betsaida B. Laguipo, BSNMar 5 2020 The coronavirus is mutating as scientists identified a second strain, which is more aggressive and contagious. As healthcare officials fight to curb the outbreak of coronavirus, a team of researchers from China says a new study shows that COVID-19 is mutating, with at least two types of...
by Julian Hunt and John Gammon, The Conversation With the number of people infected with coronavirus increasing around the world on a daily basis, the World Health Organization (WHO) has advised everyone to regularly and thoroughly clean their hands. This can be either with an alcohol-based hand rub or with soap and water. The hope...
Since 31 December 2019 and as of 9 March 2020, 109 695 cases of COVID-19 (in accordance with the applied case definitions in the affected countries) have been reported, including 3 811 deaths. The deaths have been reported from China (3 122), Italy (366), Iran (194), South Korea (51), United States (21), France (19), Japan (7), an international...
COVID-19’s imaging features are variable and nonspecific, but the imaging findings reported thus far do show “significant overlap” with those of severe acute respiratory syndrome and Middle East respiratory syndrome AMERICAN ROENTGEN RAY SOCIETY Leesburg, VA, February 28, 2020–Although the imaging features of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are variable and nonspecific, the findings reported...
Broad-spectrum antiviral agents could be a possible quick response to the potential COVID-19 pandemic NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY The number of people infected with the new corona virus continues to skyrocket, with more than 80000 cases worldwide as of the end of February. But there’s no vaccine or cure in sight, meaning that...
