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Share on PinterestResearchers have concluded that strict emergency measures have been effective in preventing millions of new infections during the pandemic.New research on six countries has found that introducing emergency measures is likely to have prevented more than 500 million SARS-CoV-2 infections.The research, which appears in the journal Nature, is the first peer-reviewed analysis of…

Share on PinterestThe importance of incarceration for public health often gets overlooked. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)According to some of the most recent data, black Americans are 2.4 times more likely to die of COVID-19 than their white counterparts, and 2.2 times as likely as Asian Americans and Latin Americans. Other studies have also suggested…

Share on PinterestResearchers think that a severe form of COVID-19 may trigger diabetes in some people.Diabetes develops when the body’s ability to regulate blood glucose levels breaks down. It can either result from damage to beta cells in the pancreas that produce the hormone insulin, known as type 1 diabetes, or from the body becoming…

Share on PinterestNew research suggests that lockdown measures helped reduce pollution in China.A silver lining of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has been the temporary environmental benefits that various lockdown measures have brought about.These are likely to end as lockdown measures are eased; indeed, air pollution from traffic is likely to be worse, as people may prefer…

Share on PinterestResearchers are developing a new type of antibody test that may be better at detecting immunity to the new coronavirus.In the weeks after the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, many companies rapidly developed tests, or assays, for detecting antibodies to the virus.Unlike assays that detect the virus itself, antibody tests…