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A pandemic is a global disease outbreak. During a pandemic, transmission can be anticipated in the workplace, not only from patient to workers in health care settings, but also among co-workers in general work settings. A pandemic would cause high levels of illness, death, social disruption, and economic loss. Everyday life would be disrupted because so many people in so many places become seriously ill at the same time. Impacts could range from school and business closings to the interruption of basic services such as public transportation and food delivery.

Georgia Tech’s dashboard breaks down Covid-19 vaccination trends by race at county level

The U.S. continues to see Covid-19 vaccinations gradually increasing nationwide, with nearly 66% of all adults now having at least one vaccine dose according to CDC's COVID Data Tracker, yet disparities have been noted in vaccination rates across races and geographic areas.

25 Jun 2021

Researchers find surprising differences in the way people use healthcare services during the pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way people eat, work, shop and go to school. Now, researchers from Japan have found surprising differences in the way people use healthcare services--including house calls from doctors.

25 Jun 2021

New book improves understanding of rare disease genetics using genomic approaches

In 2018, Dr. Claudia Gonzaga-Jáuregui, who years before had completed her doctorate studies in Dr. James R. Lupski's lab at Baylor College of Medicine, received an email from an editor at Elsevier's Academic Press with a proposal that immediately caught her attention.

25 Jun 2021

Researchers determine molecular structure of bacterial protein complex critical for tuberculosis

Tuberculosis is one of the top ten causes of death worldwide, infecting about one-quarter of the world's population. Although it is treatable, the rise of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis poses a major threat to global health security, and has been declared by the World Health Organization as a global health emergency.

25 Jun 2021

Some people wanted more sex during the pandemic than ever before, research finds

It is widely assumed that Americans' sexual activity took a nosedive during the early chaotic months of the coronavirus pandemic. But a new study from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine challenges this popular narrative.

25 Jun 2021

Novel biosensor offers rapid quantitative variant of concern-independent serology for SARS-CoV-2

Even as herculean efforts are being made to extend the reach of vaccination against COVID-19 to all the regions of the world, there is a dire need for rapid and sensitive tests to assess the antibody response to the various vaccines used and to monitor antibody titers over time. A new preprint describes a new approach to this problem which could be applied to other molecules of interest as well, both in laboratories and at the point of care.

25 Jun 2021

Study examines safety of COVID-19 vaccination during lactation

A new preprint, recently released on the medRxiv* server, reports from real life in a cohort of mother-child dyads in Singapore. The mothers were lactating after having received COVID-19 vaccination.

25 Jun 2021

Study delves into the link between smoking and suicidal behaviors

Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology residents Iván Echeverria, Miriam Cotaina and Antonio Jovani, from the Hospital Provincial of Castellón, doctor Ana Benito and doctor Gonzalo Haro from the TXP research group of the CEU UCH, and doctor Rafael Mora, have published the results of their latest research: a meta-analysis on suicide, the first cause of external death in Spain.

25 Jun 2021

Evaluation of COVID-19 vaccination effects on outbreak dynamics in Japan

Among the developed nations, Japan was the last to commence vaccination (February 2021). Only 8.7% of Japanese people are fully vaccinated as of today, June 25th, 2021. Fortunately for Japan, the incidence of the disease has been much lower than in Europe or the United States. Now, a new study published on the medRxiv* preprint server analyzes the impact of vaccination on the COVID-19 outbreak in Japan

25 Jun 2021

Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children significantly affects more Black and Latino children

Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) significantly affected more Black and Latino children than white children, with Black children at the highest risk, according to a new observational study of 124 pediatric patients treated at Children's National Hospital in Washington, D.C.

25 Jun 2021

Sleep-wake behavior predicts mental health resilience during COVID-19

Now, a group of researchers from the USA and Australia has collaborated on a study analyzing objective sleep-wake data and the effect of COVID-19 on the mental health of adults in the USA.

25 Jun 2021

Researchers model infection-spreading scenarios to understand the impact of COVID-19

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, together with epidemiologist Lone Simonsen from Roskilde University form part of the panel advising the Danish government on how to tackle the different infection-spreading situations we have all seen unfold over the past year.

25 Jun 2021

New online calculator can predict risk of dementia

Canadian researchers at The Ottawa Hospital, the University of Ottawa, the Bruyère Research Institute and ICES have built and validated an online calculator that empowers individuals 55 and over to better understand the health of their brain and how they can reduce their risk of being diagnosed with dementia in the next five years.

25 Jun 2021

An “analytical chronicle" of COVID-19 crisis in India

The initial spread of the coronavirus in India led to the introduction of a national lockdown in March 2020. After the first wave of the pandemic had subsided and a nationwide vaccination campaign had begun, a mutation of the virus in the spring of 2021 caused infection and mortality rates to rise steeply again.

25 Jun 2021

New analysis of U.S. COVID-19 deaths reveals bigger drop in average life expectancy, disparities

An updated analysis of American COVID-19 deaths throughout 2020 reveals an even bigger drop in average life expectancy as well as still-substantial disparities by race and ethnicity.

25 Jun 2021

Overcrowding and multigenerational housing arrangements increase SARS-CoV-2 transmission risk

Researchers at the Weill Cornell Medical College aimed to determine the role of overcrowded households as a risk factor for COVID-19. The study's objective, which appeared in the medRxiv* pre-print server, was to examine the link between overcrowded and multigenerational households and COVID-19 in New York City.

25 Jun 2021

Researchers decode humans’ survival from historical coronavirus outbreaks

An international team of researchers co-led by the University of Adelaide and the University of Arizona has analyzed the genomes of more than 2,500 modern humans from 26 worldwide populations, to better understand how humans have adapted to historical coronavirus outbreaks.

25 Jun 2021

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Georgia Tech’s dashboard breaks down Covid-19 vaccination trends by race at county level

Researchers find surprising differences in the way people use healthcare services during the pandemic

New book improves understanding of rare disease genetics using genomic approaches

Researchers determine molecular structure of bacterial protein complex critical for tuberculosis

Some people wanted more sex during the pandemic than ever before, research finds

Novel biosensor offers rapid quantitative variant of concern-independent serology for SARS-CoV-2

Study examines safety of COVID-19 vaccination during lactation

Study delves into the link between smoking and suicidal behaviors

Evaluation of COVID-19 vaccination effects on outbreak dynamics in Japan

Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children significantly affects more Black and Latino children

Sleep-wake behavior predicts mental health resilience during COVID-19

Researchers model infection-spreading scenarios to understand the impact of COVID-19

New online calculator can predict risk of dementia

An “analytical chronicle" of COVID-19 crisis in India

New analysis of U.S. COVID-19 deaths reveals bigger drop in average life expectancy, disparities

Overcrowding and multigenerational housing arrangements increase SARS-CoV-2 transmission risk

Researchers decode humans’ survival from historical coronavirus outbreaks

Study shows how SARS-CoV-2 virus enters cells to cause infection

Scientists identify new virulence mechanism for a surface protein on pneumonia-causing bacteria

Researchers develop a low-cost automated rapid test for detecting SARS-CoV-2 antibodies

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