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Children are far less likely to suffer from Covid-19, a new study has confirmed, with just four per cent of children admitted to hospital testing positive for the virus. Why children are less affected by the coronavirus than adults remains unknown, but it is believed to be down to they way their immune system reacts … Read more
Herd immunity is a form of indirect protection from infectious disease that occurs when a high percentage of a population has become immune to it, either through vaccination or previous infection. To cause an outbreak, a virus must have a continuous supply of potential victims whose immune system do not know how to fend it … Read more
Tiny artificial lungs grown in a lab from adult stem cells have allowed scientists to watch how coronavirus infects the lungs in a new ‘major breakthrough’. Researchers from Duke University and Cambridge University produced artificial lungs in two independent and separate studies to examine the spread of Covid-19. The ‘living lung’ models minimic the tiny … Read more
A single passenger infected 15 others with COVID-19 on a 10-hour trip from London to Vietnam, a new study published by the Centers for Centers for Disease Control has shown. The report shows how the unidentified woman, 27, unknowingly spread the virus back in March. It shows how the female traveler, who had a sore throat … Read more
Britain will never truly know the reproduction number of the coronavirus and will have to squash it as they lift lockdown by trial and error, scientists say. The reproduction number, also known as the R0 (R-nought), shows how many people the average patient infects before they recover. Scientists say that as long as the rate … Read more
‘It was terrifying. I was a little ahead of them in the timing of it all’: Mom unknowingly exposes the coronavirus to 17 of her 18 children because she did not show symptoms Brittany Jencik of Penfield, N.Y., near Rochester, said she was asymptomatic after contracting the coronavirus and unknowingly infected 17 of her 18 children … Read more
Moment the coronavirus infects a healthy cell is captured for the first time using a microscope that can magnify objects up to two million times Researchers in Brazil used a powerful electron microscope to capture the image The first image shows the virus as it is about to infect the healthy cell samples Images were … Read more
Six elderly nuns from the same Italian convent have died from coronavirus while another nine are in hospital after being infected. Maria Annetta Ribet, 85, was the latest to die at a hospital in the commune of Tortona, in Italy’s hard-hit north, on March 27. An outbreak at Little Missionary Sisters of Charity was first … Read more