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How the Coronavirus Spreads and Makes Us Ill
Covid-19 variants spread between people through close interpersonal contact. The Conversation provides this example from…
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How the Coronavirus Gets Inside Our Bodies
Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and now Omicron are all members of the Coronavirus family. These…
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New Insights into Living with Omicron Variant
Sarah Palmer is a virologist at Westmead Institute Centre for Virus Research in Sydney, Australia.…
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What We Know About Omicron Variant
South Africa was expecting a fourth wave of COVID-19 infections in December during the height…
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Advanced Gum Disease Boosts COVID Severity
Periodontal gum disease loosens teeth, and can destroy the underlying bone. Previously we wondered whether…
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Why Children React Differently to COVID
At the beginning of COVID we hoped the disease would not affect children. After a…
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How Likely a Child Is to Get COVID-19?
Any child can contract the SARS-CoV-2 virus causing the COVID-19 disease. But doctors were less…
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Three Snow Leopards Die from COVID-19
The snow leopard is native to the mountain reaches of Central and South Asia. Relentless…
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Could Climate Change Affect COVID Spread?
There’s no direct evidence global warming will directly increase the infectiousness of airborne viruses, and…
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Link from COVID to Guillain-Barre Syndrome
Guillain-Barre Syndrome is a rare, rapid-onset autoimmune disease, in which a disorder in the patient’s…