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Researchers use HACCP framework to assess COVID-19 transmission risks in universities

Using the Hazard Analysis of Critical Control Points (HACCP) framework, researchers assessed the risk and mitigation strategies for universities with students returning to campus. The methodology allowed a rapid response to curb disease transmission with continuing education.

15 Dec 2020

Structural inequalities in Brazil linked to higher COVID-19-related mortality in low-income areas

A team of researchers aimed to determine the differential health effects of COVID-19 on disadvantaged population groups. They found that low-income and Black and Pardo communities in the country are more likely to die from COVID-19.

15 Dec 2020

Flavobac™ Cold & Flu Guard provides a natural barrier against bacteria and viruses

Flavobac Cold & Flu Guard, developed by leading preventative dentistry provider Oraldent, is a completely natural oral and nasal barrier against bacteria and viruses, including SARS-CoV-2 and influenza.

15 Dec 2020

Researchers develop new method to predict COVID-19 worldwide

Methods currently used around the world for predicting the development of COVID-19 and other pandemics fail to report precisely on the best and worst-case scenarios. Newly developed prediction method for epidemics, published in Nature Physics, solve this problem.

15 Dec 2020

People in poorest areas more likely to be affected by severe Covid-19

People in Scotland's poorest areas are more likely to be affected by severe Covid-19 - and to die from the disease - than those in more affluent districts, according to a study of critical care units.

15 Dec 2020

Environmental monitoring shows SARS-CoV-2 contamination of surfaces in food plants

The COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has presented new challenges to food manufacturers.

15 Dec 2020

SIMON – The Machine Learning Platform Paving the Future of Vaccine Development

A machine learning algorithm developed by the Oxford Vaccine Group promises more effective vaccine development for several diseases, including COVID-19.

15 Dec 2020

High-poverty neighborhoods bear the brunt of COVID’s scourge

Over the course of the pandemic, COVID-19 infections have battered high-poverty neighborhoods in California on a staggeringly different scale than more affluent areas, a trend that underscores the heightened risks for low-wage workers as the state endures a deadly late-autumn surge.

15 Dec 2020

UK government declares identification of a “new variant” of coronavirus

The UK government has released a statement that a “new variant” of coronavirus that could be causing a faster spread of the virus has been identified.

15 Dec 2020

Not all masks protect the same: Research suggests no mask better than an old mask

In a new study, a team of scientists explains how not all masks protect the same from COVID-19 transmission.

15 Dec 2020

Risk of COVID-19 transmission increases when walking through corridors

Research has found that COVID-19 individuals breathe out water droplets that can form into streams that trail behind them when walking through corridors.

15 Dec 2020

SLS and Eppendorf to supply ultra-low temperature freezers for UK COVID-19 vaccines

Scientific Laboratory Supplies and Eppendorf have been chosen to provide ultra-low temperature freezers for the country’s supply of COVID-19 vaccines.

15 Dec 2020

Scientists empower wireless sensors with vision abilities to fight viruses

Current and former early-career scientists share their stories and tell how Europe has bet on them, making their high-risk research possible: from intelligent wireless sensors with vision abilities to RNA-based techniques to fight viruses, from the mathematical formulas of the MRI waves to optoceutics, the new technique that uses light to repair the heart after a stroke.

15 Dec 2020

Study provides valuable interaction about animal host and pathogen during pneumococcal infections

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine published one of the most comprehensive analyses of how genes get expressed during infection (known as a transcriptome). The analyses include three different strains of the bacteria Streptococcus pneumoniae, which causes pneumonia, meningitis, and middle-ear infections.

15 Dec 2020

Researchers develop new model to determine quarantine measures for COVID-19

As Covid-19 infections soar across the U.S., some states are tightening restrictions and reinstituting quarantine measures to slow the virus' spread.

15 Dec 2020

Republicans are less likely to follow social distancing guidelines that prevent COVID- 19 transmission

Young Californians who identify themselves as Republicans are less likely to follow social distancing guidelines that prevent coronavirus transmission than those who identify as Democrats or Independents, according to a new USC study published today in JAMA Internal Medicine.

15 Dec 2020

Smartphone-based adherence program can optimize uptake of COVID-19 vaccine

The light at the end of the pandemic tunnel is getting brighter. This week, the first health care workers will receive the first doses of an FDA-approved coronavirus vaccine. Soon, so will other front-line workers in health care and beyond, and residents of long-term care facilities.

15 Dec 2020

DFG establishes “COVID-19 Focus Funding” to address questions on coronavirus pandemic

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) has made its first decisions in the new COVID-19 Focus Funding instrument. These decisions will enable 33 projects to immediately begin research on immunity, host susceptibility and pathomechanisms of infection with SARS-CoV-2.

15 Dec 2020

COVID-19 vaccine shows the long-term value of curiosity-driven basic research

The most promising vaccine against the coronavirus to date is also an example of the long-term value of curiosity-driven basic research and its funding by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation).

15 Dec 2020

Study reveals onchocerciasis can be eliminated by adapting new measures and tools

A report on onchocerciasis (also known as river blindness) shows continued global progress towards achieving interruption of transmission of the disease.

15 Dec 2020

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Researchers use HACCP framework to assess COVID-19 transmission risks in universities

Structural inequalities in Brazil linked to higher COVID-19-related mortality in low-income areas

Flavobac™ Cold & Flu Guard provides a natural barrier against bacteria and viruses

Researchers develop new method to predict COVID-19 worldwide

People in poorest areas more likely to be affected by severe Covid-19

Environmental monitoring shows SARS-CoV-2 contamination of surfaces in food plants

SIMON – The Machine Learning Platform Paving the Future of Vaccine Development

High-poverty neighborhoods bear the brunt of COVID’s scourge

UK government declares identification of a “new variant” of coronavirus

Not all masks protect the same: Research suggests no mask better than an old mask

Risk of COVID-19 transmission increases when walking through corridors

SLS and Eppendorf to supply ultra-low temperature freezers for UK COVID-19 vaccines

Scientists empower wireless sensors with vision abilities to fight viruses

Study provides valuable interaction about animal host and pathogen during pneumococcal infections

Researchers develop new model to determine quarantine measures for COVID-19

Republicans are less likely to follow social distancing guidelines that prevent COVID- 19 transmission

Smartphone-based adherence program can optimize uptake of COVID-19 vaccine

DFG establishes “COVID-19 Focus Funding” to address questions on coronavirus pandemic

COVID-19 vaccine shows the long-term value of curiosity-driven basic research

Study reveals onchocerciasis can be eliminated by adapting new measures and tools

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