Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.,Sep 23 2020 Is the world prepared a wave of neurological consequences that may be on its way as a result of COVID-19? This question is at the forefront of research underway at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. A team of neuroscientists and clinicians are examining the potential link between...
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A city in Brazil where covid-19 ran amok may be a ‘sentinel’ for the rest of the world
So many people have gotten sick in Manaus that researchers say the virus is running out of people to infect. What happens when a major city allows the coronavirus to rage unchecked? If the Brazilian city of Manaus is any answer, it means about two-thirds of the population could get infected and one person in...
COVID-19 infects majority of bad dreams: study
by Frontiers COVID-19 has turned 2020 into a nightmare for many people, as they struggle with health problems, economic uncertainty and other challenges. Now a team of researchers in Finland has evidence that the pandemic really is a bad dream. In a paper published in Frontiers in Psychology, scientists used artificial intelligence to help analyze...
Common antioxidant enzyme may provide potential treatment for COVID-19
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – LOS ANGELES IMAGE: SIMPLE DIAGRAM SHOWING CATALASE KICK STARTING REACTION THAT CONVERTS HYDROGEN PEROXIDE INTO WATER AND OXYGEN Researchers from UCLA and China have found that catalase, a naturally occurring enzyme, holds potential as a low-cost therapeutic drug to treat COVID-19 symptoms and suppress the replication of coronavirus inside the body. A study...
Largest COVID-19 contact-tracing finds children key to spread, evidence of superspreaders
by Morgan Kelly, Princeton University A study of more than a half-million people in India who were exposed to the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, or COVID-19, suggests that the virus’ continued spread is driven by only a small percentage of those who become infected. Furthermore, children and young adults were found to be potentially much more important to transmitting...
AI can detect COVID-19 in the lungs like a virtual physician, new study shows
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA AI Can Detect COVID-19 in the Lungs Like a Virtual Physician, New Study Shows The new UCF co-developed algorithm can accurately identify COVID-19 cases, as well as distinguish them from influenza. ORLANDO, Sept. 30, 2020 – A University of Central Florida researcher is part of a new study showing that artificial...
Nitric oxide a possible treatment for COVID-19
UPPSALA UNIVERSITY Researchers at Uppsala University have found that an effective way of treating the coronavirus behind the 2003 SARS epidemic also works on the closely related SARS-CoV-2 virus, the culprit in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The substance concerned is nitric oxide (NO), a compound with antiviral properties that is produced by the body itself. The...
Study finds that children’s immune response protects against COVID-19
by Albert Einstein College of Medicine Image of the ultrastructural morphology exhibited by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). The first study comparing the immune responses of adults and children with COVID-19 has detected key differences that may contribute to understanding why children usually have milder disease than adults. The findings also have important implications for vaccines...
Researchers find diminished response by ‘killer’ T cells in elderly COVID-19 patients
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY WASHINGTON, D.C. – September 21, 2020 – Although people of any age can become infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, elderly patients face a higher risk of severity and death than younger patients. New research comparing the immune response among age groups, published this week in mBio, an open-access journal of the...
Study: Death counts fail to capture full mortality effects of COVID-19
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA (USF INNOVATION) TAMPA, Fla. (Sept. 23, 2020)- More than 200,000 people in the U.S. have died from COVID-19. Some argue that statistic is inaccurate due to inconsistencies in how deaths are being reported. But researchers from the University of South Florida claim that even if those deaths have been correctly measured, the number...