Scientists modelling SARS-CoV-2 variant transmission dynamics in South Africa find common characteristics related to transmissibility and immune evasion, according to their report published today in eLife.

Scientists at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health modelling transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 variants find common characteristics related to transmissibility and immune evasion, according to a study in South Africa published today in eLife.

An increase in the number of non-COVID-19 respiratory infections should be expected this winter, say scientists. The warning comes following the results of a new study, published in The Lancet Regional Health – Europe, which found that over 55% of respiratory disease hospitalizations during the pandemic’s peak were caused by non-SARS-CoV-2 infections. The University Bristol-led study funded and conducted in collaboration with Pfizer Inc., as part of AvonCAP, is the first to compare the number of hospitalizations from respiratory disease infections caused by COVID-19 and non-SARS-CoV-2 infections.

Long COVID is a significant issue that is impacting sufferers' daily lives. However it is still not clear how such aftereffects occur or how long they typically last. To help address this, a research collaboration between Kobe Graduate School of Medicine and Hyogo Prefectural Kakogawa Medical Center report a 15 month case study on a patient’s recovery from impaired adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) secretion brought on by novel coronavirus infection.This provides an example of a recovery treatment course for impaired hormone secretion disorder, one of the widely reported aftereffects of COVID-19.

Behavioral scientists have long researched how to help children cope with extreme adversity – such as poverty or exposure to violence. Yanping Jiang, a researcher at the Rutgers Institute for Health, thinks she’s found the answer in rural China.

Is brain fog a condition limited to humans? “Infectious disease and cognition in wild populations,” a recently published paper in Trends in Ecology & Evolution, answers that question. In a review of the studies, it explores whether learning, memory, and problem-solving are impaired by infection, not just in humans, but in species across the animal kingdom.

School closures during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic may have resulted in at least 5,500 fewer reports of endangered children, according to a new study showing teachers’ essential role in the early detection and reporting of child maltreatment.

Have you had COVID? What strain was it? Are you now immune? Now, there’s a way to get answers to all those questions in a couple of hours, without needing to send samples to a lab. A new point-of-care diagnostic device created by members of the Wyss Institute combines our eRapid and SHERLOCK technologies into a single, postcard-sized system that can simultaneously detect the presence of both SARS-CoV-2 RNA and antibodies against the virus in a patient’s saliva. The system can be easily customized to fight future pandemic pathogens.

Adding baricitinib to remdesivir and dexamethasone improved outcomes for patients hospitalized with severe COVID-19, according to a Rutgers researcher