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or contagious as reported. How could it be? New illnesses and viruses emerge on an almost yearly basis, but the medical and economic carnage that SARS-CoV-2 has caused is unprecedented.SARS-CoV-2 has changed all our lives, in large part, due to its highly contagious nature. But, what makes this coronavirus strain so much more transmissible than…

A small 3D version of the human brain develops key features of Alzheimer’s disease when it is infected with a virus that causes cold sores, scientists reported on Wednesday, adding to the evidence that this most common form of dementia can be caused by a common microbe. The new research, published in Science Advances, is…

San Francisco study reveals 90% of people who tested positive for coronavirus had been leaving home to go to workUC San Francisco researchers tested 4,160 residents of the city's Mission District for COVID-19 between April 25 and 28 Of the 62 people who tested positive, 90 percent were essential workers 95 percent of the positive individuals were…

Share on PinterestResearch suggests that people who tend to get their news from social media are more prone to disinformation about the new coronavirus.Though the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is still relatively new, people already know much about it, including its means of transmission, and how we can slow that transmission down. Conveying this…

Scientists have identified a new strain of the coronavirus that has become dominant worldwide and appears to be more contagious than the versions that spread in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study led by scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory.The new strain appeared in February in Europe, migrated quickly…