Topic: covid-science

At 12, she’s a COVID 'long hauler'

At 12, she’s a COVID 'long hauler'

David Tuller, The New York Times
Posted at Oct 23 11:17 AM

In early March, when coronavirus testing was still scarce, Maggie Flannery, a Manhattan sixth-grader, and both her parents fell ill with the symptoms of COVID-19. After three weeks, her parents recovered. Maggie also seemed to get better, but only briefly before suffering a relapse that left her debilitated. Read more »

The race for an antibody against the coronavirus

The race for an antibody against the coronavirus

Apoorva Mandavilli, The New York Times
Updated as of Oct 14 12:17 PM

Even as vaccines are hailed as our best hope against the coronavirus, dozens of scientific groups are working on an alternate defense: monoclonal antibodies. These therapies shot to prominence just this month after President Donald Trump got an infusion of an antibody cocktail made by Regeneron and credited it for his apparent recovery, even calling it a “cure.” Read more »

COVID-19 reinfection casts doubt on virus immunity: study

COVID-19 reinfection casts doubt on virus immunity: study

Patrick Galey, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Oct 13 08:55 AM

PARIS - COVID-19 patients may experience more severe symptoms the second time they are infected, according to research released Tuesday confirming it is possible to catch the potentially deadly disease more than once. Read more »

Extra pounds may raise risk of severe COVID-19

Extra pounds may raise risk of severe COVID-19

Roni Caryn Rabin, The New York Times
Posted at Oct 12 07:48 AM

Obese Americans are more likely to become dangerously ill if they are infected with the new coronavirus. Now public health officials are warning that a much broader segment of the population also may be at risk: Even moderately excess weight may increase the odds of severe disease. Read more »

'I feel like I have dementia’: Brain fog plagues COVID-19 survivors

'I feel like I have dementia’: Brain fog plagues COVID-19 survivors

Pam Belluck, The New York Times
Updated as of Oct 12 07:48 AM

After contracting the coronavirus in March, Michael Reagan lost all memory of his 12-day vacation in Paris, even though the trip was just a few weeks earlier. It’s becoming known as COVID brain fog: troubling cognitive symptoms that can include memory loss, confusion, difficulty focusing, dizziness and grasping for everyday words. Increasingly, COVID survivors say brain fog is impairing their ability to work and function normally. Read more »

What's special about bat viruses? What we don't know could hurt us

What's special about bat viruses? What we don't know could hurt us

James Gorman, The New York Times
Posted at Oct 09 08:37 AM

Bats were once of interest mainly to specialists and devoted conservationists. But the global pandemic pushed the animals squarely into the spotlight as the apparent original source of the novel coronavirus. Now, once arcane research into the large number of viruses that live in bats has acquired a new urgency, along with discussions of what to do about the likelihood of diseases in animals spilling over to humans. Read more »

Nearly one-third of COVID patients in study had altered mental state

Nearly one-third of COVID patients in study had altered mental state

Pam Belluck, The New York Times
Posted at Oct 06 07:38 AM

Nearly a third of hospitalized COVID-19 patients experienced some type of altered mental function — ranging from confusion to delirium to unresponsiveness — in the largest study to date of neurological symptoms among coronavirus patients in a U.S. hospital system.   Read more »

Hair loss can be another consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic

Hair loss can be another consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic

Pam Belluck, The New York Times
Posted at Sep 25 07:31 AM

Doctors say many patients recovering from COVID-19 are experiencing hair loss — not from the virus itself but from the physiological stress of fighting it off. Many people who never contracted the virus are also losing hair because of emotional stress from job loss, financial strain, deaths of family members or other devastating developments stemming from the pandemic. Read more »

Virus on a plane: Study monitors COVID-19 transmission on planes

Virus on a plane: Study monitors COVID-19 transmission on planes

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Aug 19 09:08 AM

On March 9, 102 passengers boarded the Tel Aviv-Frankfurt flight that lasted four hours and 40 minutes, including a group of 24 tourists. German authorities were alerted that the group had come into contact with an infected hotel manager in Israel, and decided to test the 24 tourists upon their arrival in Frankfurt.   Read more »

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