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Too Many COVID-19 Patients Get Unneeded ‘Just in Case’ Antibiotics

August 26, 2020
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Ann Arbor, MI — More than half of patients hospitalized with suspected COVID-19 in Michigan during the state’s peak months received antibiotics soon after they arrive, just in case they had a...

Electric Cooker an Easy, Efficient Way to Sanitize N95 Masks, Study Suggests

August 7, 2020
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Champaign, IL — Owners of electric multicookers may be able to add another use to its list of functions, a new study suggests: sanitization of N95 respirator masks. The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign...

COVID-19 Provides Rare Opportunities for Studying Natural and Human Systems

July 29, 2020
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Stanford, CA — Like the legendary falling apple that hit Isaac Newton and led to his groundbreaking insight on the nature of gravity, COVID-19 could provide unintended glimpses into how complex Earth...

Neutralizing Antibodies Isolated From COVID-19 Patients May Suppress Virus

July 22, 2020
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New York, NY — Researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center have isolated antibodies from several COVID-19 patients that, to date, are among the most potent in neutralizing the SARS-CoV-2...

A Nanomaterial Path Forward for COVID-19 Vaccine Development

July 15, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — From mRNA vaccines entering clinical trials, to peptide-based vaccines and using molecular farming to scale vaccine production, the COVID-19 pandemic is pushing new and emerging nanotechnologies...

Experimental COVID-19 Vaccine Safe, Generates Immune Response, Says Study

July 15, 2020
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Bethesda, MD — An investigational vaccine, mRNA-1273, designed to protect against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), was generally well tolerated and prompted neutralizing...

Bats Offer Clues to Treating COVID-19

July 10, 2020
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Rochester, NY — Bats are often considered patient zero for many deadly viruses affecting humans, including Ebola, rabies, and, most recently, the SARS-CoV-2 strain of virus that causes coronavirus. Although...

Global Threats: How Lessons From COVID-19 Can Prevent Environmental Meltdown

July 3, 2020
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Princeton, NJ — Epidemiologists highlighted the dangers of Covid-19 in its early stages, but their warnings went largely ignored until rising infection rates forced policymakers to take action. Likewise,...

Cell ‘Membrane on a Chip’ Could Speed up Screening of Drug Candidates for COVID-19

July 3, 2020
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Cambridge, UK — Researchers have developed a human cell ‘membrane on a chip’ that allows continuous monitoring of how drugs and infectious agents interact with our cells, and may soon be...

Even in the Worst COVID-19 Cases, the Body Launches Immune Cells to Fight Back

July 3, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — A new study from researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) and Erasmus University Medical Center (Erasmus MC) shows that even the sickest COVID-19 patients produce T cells...

Lab-Grown ‘Mini-Brains’ Suggest COVID-19 Virus Can Infect Human Brain Cells

July 1, 2020
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Baltimore, MD — A multidisciplinary team from two Johns Hopkins University institutions, including neurotoxicologists and virologists from the Bloomberg School of Public Health and infectious disease...

Clinical-Grade Wearables Offer Continuous Monitoring for COVID-19

July 1, 2020
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Evanston, IL — Although it might be tempting to rely on your fitness tracker to catch early signs of COVID-19, Northwestern University researchers caution that consumer wearables are not sophisticated...

Countries With Early Adoption of Face Masks Showed Modest COVID-19 Infection Rates, Says Study

June 26, 2020
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New York, NY — Regions with an early interest in face masks had milder COVID-19 epidemics, according to a new letter-to-the-editor published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care...

Bacterial Predator Could Help Reduce COVID-19 Deaths

June 24, 2020
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Birmingham, UK — A type of virus that preys on bacteria could be harnessed to combat bacterial infections in patients whose immune systems have been weakened by the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the...

Fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic Through Testing

June 19, 2020
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Chevy Chase, MD — The world is now in the grips of a historic pandemic. The death toll from the novel coronavirus has climbed to more than 117,000 in the United States and 448,000 around the world....

MMR Vaccine Could Protect Against the Worst Symptoms of COVID-19, Study Reveals

June 19, 2020
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Washington, DC — Administering the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine could serve as a preventive measure to dampen septic inflammation associated with COVID-19 infection, say a team of experts...

Cellular Nanosponges Could Soak up SARS-CoV-2

June 17, 2020
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Washington, DC — Scientists are working overtime to find an effective treatment for COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. Many of these efforts target a specific part of...

Researchers Create New Type of COVID-19 Antibody Test

June 12, 2020
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Chapel Hill, NC — As the COVID-19 pandemic continues with many thousands of new infections reported each day, there is a need for widely applicable surveillance testing to gain a better understanding...

How COVID-19 Has Altered Sleep in the United States and Europe

June 10, 2020
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Cambridge, MA — Stay-at-home orders and “lockdowns” related to the COVID-19 pandemic have had a major impact on the daily lives of people around the world and that includes the way that...

Reducing Severe Breathlessness and Psychological Trauma in COVID-19 ARDS Survivors

June 5, 2020
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New York, NY — A new paper published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society examines ventilation and medication strategies that can help avoid psychological trauma for severe COVID-19...

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