Coronavirus: Transmission through tears? – Naturopathy Naturopathy Specialist Portal
Transmission of the Coronavirus by tear fluid is unlikely Many people are likely to be well-known that the Coronavirus can be transmitted by coughing or Sneezing. So far, it was unclear, however, whether the Virus can also be through tears…
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2 COVID-29 patients taken off ventilators after experimental treatment
Two coronavirus patients in New York ICU were taken off ventilators just DAYS after being treated with an experimental HIV and cancer drug A drug in developement for treating HIV and cancer was given to seven critically ill coronavirus patients…
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Handling mail amid coronavirus: Low risk but wash your hands
Is it safe to pick up your mail? How about those packages from your online orders? And how safe are the people we count on to make those deliveries? Health experts say the risks are very low that the coronavirus…
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Researchers develop ventilator costing less than $300
Rice University and Canadian global health design firm Metric Technologies have developed an automated bag valve mask ventilation unit that can be built for less than $300 worth of parts and help patients in treatment for COVID-19. The collaboration expects…
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GM, Ford promise more ventilators after Trump criticism
US auto giant General Motors announced a joint venture to rapidly produce much-needed ventilators Friday, shortly after President Donald Trump took to Twitter to criticise the company. With the country’s supply of ventilators heavily strained by the coronavirus crisis, GM…
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Some COVID-19 patients still have coronavirus after symptoms disappear: study
In a new study, researchers found that half of the patients they treated for mild COVID-19 infection still had coronavirus for up to eight days after symptoms disappeared. The research letter was published online in the American Thoracic Society’s American…
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People with disabilities are afraid they will be denied health care because of coronavirus
Margaret Breihan relies on the nursing assistants who visit six mornings a week to help her shower, dress and tidy up her Silver Spring, Maryland, apartment. Breihan, 31, who has cerebral palsy, is mostly self-reliant and does everything from shop…
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COVIDathon aims to develop open source tools to combat pandemic
Starting April 1st, the Decentralized AI Alliance and partners SingularityNET and Ocean Protocol plan to host an online, not-for-profit hackathon called COVIDathon. The goal is to bring together the decentralized artificial intelligence community in an effort to help find solutions…
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To get on top of the coronavirus, we also need to test people without symptoms
As the World Health Organisation keeps reminding health officials around the world, in order to get COVID-19 under control, we must “test, test, test.” Along with tracing contacts of cases, travel bans and social distancing, testing is one of the…
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‘In a crisis like this, an antiviral drug could buy us some time’
Francesco Stellacci, a professor in EPFL’s School of Engineering, discusses his research in the field of nanomedicine and how it could help us get past the coronavirus crisis. As the COVID-19 outbreak rages on, researchers are in a race against…
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