Health

Coronavirus may be adrift in indoor air, CDC acknowledges

[ad_1] Two weeks after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention withdrew a statement about the airborne transmission of the coronavirus, the agency replaced it Monday with language citing new evidence that the virus can spread beyond six feet. indoor. “These transmissions occurred within enclosed spaces that had inadequate ventilation,” …

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Adults also develop a rare but serious COVID-related syndrome

[ad_1] Rare but serious cases of a multisystemic inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) associated with COVID-19 have been reported worldwide. Now, a study published late last week in Weekly morbidity and mortality report describes a similar syndrome in 27 adults with coronavirus. Led by researchers from the U.S. Centers for …

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A decades-long struggle to find a virus wins the Nobel

[ad_1] Enlarge / This photograph of a bust of Alfred Nobel was taken just before the announcement of the winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden on October 5, 2020. The first known human cases of COVID-19 occurred in December …

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Google Maps adds the COVID-19 layer to alert about cases

[ad_1] From now on, the popular navigation application Google Maps will report on COVID-19 outbreaks occurring around the world, with geographic information of the cases. The new functionality was added for users of the Android and iOS operating systems as an additional layer on top of the maps. More than …

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