By Jim Shelton, Yale News, April 22, 2024 A new, Yale-led study suggests that a range of respiratory viral infections — including COVID-19 and influenza — may be preventable or treatable with a generic antibiotic that is delivered to the …
Study discovers hidden mechanism behind rapid COVID variants
News Medical, April 23, 2024 The SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID has the unsettling ability of often generating variants of itself. Other viruses also mutate, but as SARS-CoV-2 quickly spread throughout the entire human population during the pandemic, killing millions, …
After COVID, WHO defines disease spread ‘through air’
By Jennifer Rigby, April 18, 2024, Reuters LONDON, April 18 (Reuters) – The World Health Organization and around 500 experts have agreed for the first time what it means for a disease to spread through the air, in a bid to …
Free COVID home test kits are still available: here’s how to get them
By Mary-Elisabeth Combs, Peter Butler, Katie Teague, CNET, April 18, 2024 Even if you’re vaccinated against COVID-19, you could still be one of the hundreds of millions of people who continue to get infected by the virus. If you have any COVID symptoms, you …
COVID, Flu and RSV vaccines are lifesavers. Why aren’t more older adults getting them?
By Sarah Meyer and Georgina Peacock, Scientific American, April 15, 2024 For the first time, we have vaccines that can protect older adults against three leading—and sometimes fatal—respiratory viral diseases: influenza, COVID and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). This is a …