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Everyone who has recovered from coronavirus disease (Covid-19) and lives in a city or region with high air pollution should get a flu shot, doctors recommend. Air pollution is known to increase the susceptibility, hospitalizations and risk of death of Covid-19 patients, with doctors warning that it can also exacerbate …

The coronavirus remains active on human skin for nine hours, Japanese researchers found, in a discovery they said showed the need for frequent hand washing to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. By comparison, the pathogen that causes the flu survives on human skin for about 1.8 hours, according to the study …

Facebook Inc and Twitter took action against posts by US President Donald Trump on Tuesday for violating their rules against misinformation about the coronavirus by suggesting that Covid-19 was like the flu. Facebook removed the post, but not before it was shared about 26,000 times, data from the company’s metric …

Most people who are infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes Covid-19, are not asymptomatic during the course of infection, a review of studies conducted at the beginning of the pandemic suggests. While some people who contract the new coronavirus never experience any symptoms, there is disagreement about the proportion …

[ad_1] At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, the question on many people’s minds was, “Isn’t this disease like the flu?” Covid-19 is a respiratory illness with some symptoms that resemble seasonal flu, such as fever and cough. New tests in the form of blood tests conducted in New York …

[ad_1] TOPLINE With the U.S. counting upwards of 61,000 confirmed coronavirus deaths on Wednesday evening, the coronavirus pandemic is more deadly than any flu the country has seen since 1967 — but still falls far short of the devastating 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. A funeral home worker wore a face …

[ad_1] BENGALURU: The scare around Covid-19 and the subsequent closure in Bengaluru are a repeat of what the city witnessed 102 years ago when another virus, the Spanish flu or Bombay fever, commonly known as influenza, had hit. The disease had killed thousands in 1918, and the fight against the …

[ad_1] The Ministry of Human Resources has asked universities to study how India handled the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 and what steps were taken to boost the economy. The ministry has also advised universities to set up research teams and study COVID-19 awareness levels in villages near their campuses. …

[ad_1] New Delhi, April 25 () The Ministry of Human Resources has asked universities to study how India handled the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 and what measures were taken to boost the economy. The ministry has also advised universities to set up research teams and study COVID-19 awareness levels …

[ad_1] Enlarge / / A COVID-19 blood test is administered outside Delmont Medical Care on April 22, 2020 in Franklin Square, New York. The test identifies antibodies against the coronavirus. Frustrated statisticians and epidemiologists flocked to social media this week to report substantial flaws in two widely publicized studies trying …