A simple trick can reveal whether your face mask provides adequate protection: Try blowing it out while wearing a candle. A good mask should prevent you from extinguishing the flame. This rule is not silly, but it will help weed out a mask that is not very protective. Since the …
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After contracting and beating a coronavirus infection, the body needs time to rest to regain its health and strength. Sadly, for some kids, that doesn’t happen. A mysterious, new disease called Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (also known as MIS-C, and Pediatric Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome or PIMS) has affected hundreds …
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A study in JAMA Pediatrics he said Thursday. Its authors wrote that this meant that young children could be important drivers of COVID-19 transmission within communities, a suggestion at odds with the current prevailing narrative. The document comes as the administration of United States President Donald Trump is pushing for …
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Symptoms developed within the first week of the onset of a COVID-19 infection may determine the likelihood that a patient will require serious medical attention by the end of the second week, according to researchers at King’s College London. The new study, which was not peer-reviewed but was replicated into …
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TOPLINE Dogs used in a German research study were trained within a week to successfully detect, with 94 percent accuracy, saliva samples taken from Covid-19 patients, offering the possibility that they can be used in future large meetings to detect carriers of the disease. A specially trained explosive detection dog …
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