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As you fortify yourself against the coronavirus—wearing a mask, social distancing and keeping your immune system strong—there may be one vitamin you're forgetting that might hold the key in keeping you safe from COVID-19: Vitamin K. New findings may show "a link between deficiency and the worst coronavirus outcomes," according to the Guardian. Why the…

Share on PinterestAn innovative device that emits UV light may effectively sanitize surfaces, eliminating SARS-CoV-2.A newly discovered material that conducts electricity and is transparent to UV light could have a use in portable devices for killing SARS-CoV-2. This is the virus that causes COVID-19.An international team of physicists, led by Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)…

When Noopur Raje’s husband fell critically ill with Covid-19 in mid-March, she did not suspect that she too was infected with the virus. Raje, an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, had been caring for her sick husband for a week before driving him to an emergency centre with a persistently high fever. But…

CLOSEIt sounds like a crappy job, but it just might help save lives.If you have the coronavirus, it is passing right through you, researchers confirm, and, with every flush, it's going into the sewer. As a result, Detroit public officials now hope by collecting sewage samples, they can track and predict outbreaks.Officials announced Monday they are refocusing a two-year-old…

The East Bay Municipal Utility District wastewater treatment plant in Oakland, Calif. Stanford University researchers are testing sewage in hopes of tracking the emergence and spread of COVID-19 outbreaks. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The East Bay Municipal Utility District wastewater treatment plant in Oakland, Calif. Stanford University researchers are…