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 …
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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 …
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He is the one who masks. Bryan Cranston has revealed that he contracted COVID-19 “just now,” and he wants everyone to mask and practice social distancing. Award-winning actor Emmy and Tony, perhaps best known for playing the chemistry professor, turned methamphetamine dealer Walter White into the acclaimed AMC series “Breaking …
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If we’re still learning how the coronavirus spreads among humans and why some people get much sicker than others, then we’ve barely scratched the surface with what it does to pets. While the number of infected animals worldwide remains relatively low, the first dog in the US to test positive …
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Vaccines have transformed the world, saving hundreds of millions of lives. They are also by far our best hope for stopping the Covid-19 pandemic. Our other options to stop the disease are to stay apart, which hurts our economy and society, or to build a “collective immunity” through natural infection, …
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