While lung cancer, heart and kidney damage can result from COVID-19, doctors and researchers are also beginning to look at the possible long-term effects of the virus on the brain. And many “long-haulers”, such as COVID-19 patients who have had symptoms for months after the first infection, report neurological problems …
Read More »Why are some people asymptomatic with coronavirus – and why are they so contagious?
How contagious is someone who has contracted COVID-19 – showing no symptoms yet – and what makes them asymptomatic while other people suffer so terribly from the disease? This study, published this week in the medical journal JAMA Internal Medicine, provides one theory for the first question. It isolated 303 …
Read More »Americans move around too much and take coronavirus with them, says expert
In the list-changing response to the pandemic reviewed by Foreign Policy Magazine, the United States ranks near the bottom. “If you look at the mobility data collected from mobile phones in many parts of the country, we are almost back to pre-Covid levels of mobility, so we are just not …
Read More »Salmonella outbreaks linked to onions are expanding to 43 states
“If you do not know where your onions come from, do not eat them, serve them or sell them as food prepared with them,” the CDC said Friday. Some of the onions were sold in stores including Walmart, Kroger, Fred Meyer, Publix, Giant Eagle, Food Lion, and HEB, among a …
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