Nearly 7 million people have died from COVID-19 since the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus more than three years ago. And yet even after repeat infections, a number of individuals are yet to experience...
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Cheap Diabetes Drug Slashes Risk of Long COVID, Study Finds : ScienceAlert
People who took a cheap diabetes drug after testing positive for COVID-19 had a 40 percent lower risk of getting long COVID, a US-based study said Friday. The finding was hailed as a potential...
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Long COVID Seems to Make Distinct Changes to The Immune System : ScienceAlert
Long COVID has more than 200 potential symptoms and can affect almost every organ in the body. With more than 65 million people now estimated to live with this often-disabling condition worldwide, and numbers...
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COVID Vaccines May Fade Quicker if You’re Obese, Evidence Shows : ScienceAlert
COVID-19 vaccines are very effective, but for some groups they don’t generate as strong an immune response. These groups include older adults and people with weakened immune systems, for example due to cancer or...
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Here’s What It Means That The WHO Says COVID Is No Longer a Global Health Emergency : ScienceAlert
World Health Organisation (WHO) experts have officially declared that COVID no longer constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (Pheic). This coincides with the WHO’s new strategy to transition from an emergency response...
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Long Covid Brain Changes Mirror Those of Chronic Fatigue, Brain Scans Reveal : ScienceAlert
Long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) both seem to impact the oldest parts of the brain in a curiously similar fashion. Using a high-resolution version of magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI),...
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US Departments Now Divided on COVID Lab Leak Theory, Says White House : ScienceAlert
The coronavirus pandemic likely arose from a Chinese laboratory leak, the US Department of Energy now says according to media, although the White House maintained Sunday that American intelligence remained divided on the issue....
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Largest Study of Its Kind Shows How Long Immunity Really Lasts After COVID Infection : ScienceAlert
After a COVID-19 infection, whether it’s a first, second, or even a third, many of us wonder how long we might be protected against a reinfection, and whether we’ll be susceptible to new variants....
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What’s The Secret of People Who Never Catch COVID? Are They Immune? : ScienceAlert
It’s been over three years since the first known COVID-19 infection. Since then, we’ve seen hundreds of millions of cases around the globe. You’ve probably had it – at least once, if not multiple...
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COVID Autopsies Reveal The Virus Spreading Through The ‘Entire Body’ : ScienceAlert
COVID-19 is defined as a respiratory infection, but the effects of the novel coronavirus are certainly not confined to any one organ. Dozens of recent autopsies show persistent evidence of SARS-CoV-2 throughout the body,...
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