At the end of the autumn term 2020, the Swedish Public Health Agency recommended distance education in the country’s upper secondary schools to further limit the spread of covid-19. Now, the Swedish Public Health Agency recommends that the upper secondary school gradually return to teaching on site in the schools’Continue Reading
Scientists say the findings, published in PLOS Medicine, show that an acute loss of smell or taste is a ‘highly reliable’ virus indicator and should now be considered globally as a criterion for self-isolation, testing, and contact tracing. The cohort study, which assessed health data from primary care centres in London,Continue Reading
As the death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic mounts, scientists worldwide continue their push to develop effective treatments and a vaccine for the highly contagious respiratory virus. University of South Florida Health (USF Health) Morsani College of Medicine scientists recently worked with colleagues at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy to identifyContinue Reading
Population-wide use of facemasks keeps the coronavirus ‘reproduction number’ under 1.0, and prevents further waves of the virus when combined with lockdowns, a modelling study from the universities of Cambridge and Greenwich suggests. The research suggests that lockdowns alone will not stop the resurgence of SARS-CoV-2, and that even homemadeContinue Reading
