Coronavirus

A medical worker organizes antibody tests on April 29, 2020 in White Plains, NY.Pablo Monsalve | VIEW press | Getty ImagesCoronavirus antibodies may last only two to three months after a person becomes infected with Covid-19, according to a new study published Thursday in Nature Medicine.Researchers examined 37 asymptomatic people, those who never developed symptoms, in…

Scientists and infectious-disease experts are pushing hard to understand more about the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 and how to treat patients suffering from the sometimes deadly illness and prevent transmission. In the roughly three months since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared regional COVID-19 outbreaks a worldwide pandemic and hundreds of millions of Americans…

By Luke Taylor The Nukak people in Colombia returned to the Amazon in March to distance themselves from the coronavirus outbreakScott Dalton/Bloomberg via Getty Members of indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon have contracted covid-19, fuelling concerns that the disease could devastate indigenous groups throughout South America – including uncontacted tribes in the region. Many…

By Nancy Lapid(Reuters) - The following is a brief roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus.Microscopic sponges may be able to soak up the coronavirusScientists have developed microscopic sponges - a thousand times smaller than…

the new coronavirus hasn't gone away, and the death toll in the United States continues to climb.In fact, the number of deaths in the U.S. has topped the estimated total of 116,000 fatalities from the country's second-worst pandemic, the flu in 1957. The only pandemic blamed for more American fatalities is the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918,…