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Nutrition as a first line of defense

Good nutrition can contribute to keeping COVID-19 and other diseases away Grayson Jaggers, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences The...
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COVID-19 rapid tests can breed confusion

COVID-19 rapid tests can breed confusion – here’s how to make sense of the results and what to do, according to 3 testing experts Nathaniel Hafer,...
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US is split between the vaccinated and unvaccinated

Deaths and hospitalizations reflect the divide in the US between the vaccinated and unvaccinated. Rodney E. Rohde, Texas State University and Ryan McNamara, University of...
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Using Genetic Decoding to Trace Covids Spread

The coronavirus genome is like a shipping label that lets epidemiologists track where it's been Bert Ely, University of South Carolina and Taylor Carter, University...
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Producing a NASA-Designed COVID-19 Ventilator

Brazilian Partnership to Begin Producing NASA-Designed COVID-19 Ventilator The Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency has approved the commercial manufacture of VITAL, a breathing device designed specifically...

Coronavirus – work continues to test existing drugs

We found and tested 47 old drugs that might treat the coronavirus: Results show promising leads and a whole new way to fight COVID-19 The...
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Myocarditis: COVID-19 is a much bigger risk to the heart than...

Glen Pyle, University of Guelph and Jennifer H Huang, Oregon Health & Science University The heart has played a central role in COVID-19 since the...

Dwindling Medical Supplies Expressed in Number of Days Left

A dispatch from the front lines: 'We don’t talk in terms of supply numbers, we talk in terms of days' W. Graham Carlos, Indiana University...
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Regional success and setbacks in the battle against a pandemic

As coronavirus cases spike in the South, Northeast seems to have the pandemic under control - here's what changed Taison Bell, University of Virginia “Hospital Capacity...

On the Trail of a Killer

Antibodies in the blood of COVID-19 survivors know how to beat coronavirus – and researchers are already testing new treatments that harness them. A person...

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