Coronavirus

coronavirus cases in Chicago appeared in January, they bore the same genetic signatures as a germ that emerged in China weeks before. But as Egon Ozer, an infectious-disease specialist at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, examined the genetic structure of virus samples from local patients, he noticed something different. A change in the…

a New York Times database, while the number of confirmed cases surpassed 10 million.The grim markers were hit on Sunday as countries around the world struggled to keep new infections from reaching runaway levels while simultaneously trying to emerge from painful lockdowns.In April, roughly a month after the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a…

Covid-19 can have long-lived symptoms including exhaustion, weight loss and rashes. Unless we officially recognise them, we can’t identify people who may have caught it or trace their contacts Health | Leader 24 June 2020 Marilyn Nieves/iStock/GettyImages THE UK has three, the US 11 and Australia 14. What are these? Covid-19 symptoms. That is according…

At least 15,000 more Americans have died in recent months from Alzheimer’s disease and dementia than otherwise would have, health officials believe, pointing to how the coronavirus pandemic has exacted a higher fatality toll than official numbers have shown.SUMMER MAY BE KEY TURNING POINT FOR VACCINEAs Covid-19 devastated older Americans this spring, often by racing through nursing homes,…

Taxi organisations have vowed to disregard government's Covid-19 regulations. Some taxi operators are adhering to taxi associations' call to operate at 100% capacity in defiance of government regulations.Taxi associations and government have not managed to reach common ground following the postponement of several meetings.No incidents or run-ins with law enforcement had been reported by early…