Home monitoring program for patients presumed positive for COVID-19 could reduce need of large healthcare workforce
Alarming reports of an increasing number of COVID-19 patients finding it difficult to get a hospital bed has put many countries around the world...
Testing, self-isolation and contact tracing with physical distancing measures, could control the COVID-19 pandemic
In the absence of a vaccine or highly effective treatments for COVID-19, combining isolation and intensive contact tracing with physical distancing measures - such as limits...
Vertical transmission of COVID-19 infection from mother to baby during pregnancy is as low as 2-5%
Transmission of COVID-19 from mother to baby during pregnancy is uncommon, and the rate of infection is no greater than 2-5%, finds a new...
Wearing a face mask dramatically reduced the chances of person-to-person spread of the virus
Want to avoid being infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, then always wear a face mask when outside home.
Not wearing a face mask dramatically increases a person's...
Analysis of data from 16 groups of COVID-19 patients from around the world suggest number of 'silent' carriers' may be as high as 45%
A large percentage of people infected by the COVID-19 virus never show symptoms of the disease,...
Use of elastomeric masks could reduces the number of N95 masks needed by nearly 95 percent in one month
A cost-effective strategy for health care systems to offset N95 mask shortages due to the COVID-19 pandemic is to switch to...
Drying time of COVID-19 virus respiratory droplets plays a major role in infectivity of COVID-19
In a new research, investigators examined the drying time of respiratory droplets from COVID-19 infected subjects and inferred that temperature, humidity and surface play vital...
Population-wide facemask use could reduce transmission of COVID-19 and prevent a second wave of the disease
Population-wide use of facemasks keeps the coronavirus 'reproduction number' under 1.0, and prevents further waves of the virus when combined with lockdowns, suggests a...
Myocardial injury (heart muscle damage) is associated with higher risk of death among hospitalized COVID-19 patients
Myocardial injury (heart muscle damage) is common among patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and is associated with higher risk of mortality, finds new study. A...
Virus DNA left on a hospital bed rail was found in nearly half of all sites sampled across a ward within 10 hours and persisted for at least five days, finds a new study
Virus DNA left on a hospital...
