CLARIFYING COVID-19 (aka yes, cuz all these sites want to hurt people 🙄)

A Greatly Anticipated Randomized Trial on Community Mask Use Illustrates Why Some People Are Confused About the Effect of Mask Mandates

For many, COVID cough persists after the other symptoms of acute COVID-19 illness resolve. Experts explain what you can do about it and when it becomes a sign of long COVID.

Myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination is rare, and the risk is much smaller than the risks of cardiac injury linked to COVID-19 itself.

The ability to disinfect indoor spaces remains a critical public health endeavor. Ultraviolet technology is an important tool that has been employed for more than a century. The report reviews the current issues behind air disinfection and the history of ultraviolet disinfection.

Fungi such as Aspergillus are so common in our surroundings that we breathe in hundreds to thousands of spores every day.

We don't have all the data yet–but dozens of studies around the world have shown a link between Long COVID and impotence.

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Almost three years into the global pandemic, we may know more about Post-COVID-19 Neurological Syndrome (PCNS), but there’s a critical need for more global collaboration

Nature Medicine explores the latest translational and clinical research news, with a clinical trial of an intranasal ChAdOx1 vaccine.

XBB.1.5, a subvariant of omicron, is gaining ground in the US, but deaths can still be avoided.

We should be rallied to defend ourselves and our kids. Our leaders offer timid silence.

As children’s hospitals across Canada struggle with influenza, RSV, and COVID-19, why aren’t people masking?

We’ve let the data slip away.

People who have a COVID-19 infection are more likely to develop seizures or epilepsy within the next six months than people who have an influenza infection, according to a new study.

Researchers have developed a vaccine that blocks the ability of fentanyl to enter the brain, eliminating the synthetic opioid's euphoric effects.

The COVID-19 pandemic that shuttered classrooms set back learning in some U.S. school systems by more than a year, with children in high-poverty areas affected the most, according to a district-by-district analysis of test scores shared exclusively with The Associated Press. In the most comprehensive look yet at how much American schoolchildren have been put behind, the analysis found the average student lost half a school year of learning in math, and more than a quarter of a school year in reading. Online learning played a role, but students lost significant ground even where they returned quickly to schoolhouses.

How long do coronavirus symptoms last? Learn about the long-term effects of COVID-19 on the brain, lungs, and nervous system, a condition referred to as "long COVID."

An overwhelming majority of people in the United States think the country is experiencing a mental health crisis, according to a new survey from CNN in partnership with the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Cognitive impairment as a result of severe COVID-19 is similar to that sustained between 50 and 70 years of age and is the equivalent to losing 10 IQ points,

Recent brain imaging shows the disease can cause physical changes equivalent to a decade of aging and trigger problems with attention and memory. Exactly why is still a mystery.

Omicron, the 13th named variant of the coronavirus, seems to have a remarkable capacity to evolve new tricks.

I will be direct: schools that have officially departed from masking are stating an ongoing commitment to purposeful exclusion.