• A novel coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, has been identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness that originated in Wuhan, China, and which has spread to several other countries around the world. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was declared a public health emergency by the World Health Organization on J. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Objective To estimate the infection fatality rate of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) from data of seroprevalence studies. (researchgate.net)
  • An evacuation flight bringing 195 Americans home from the Chinese city at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak has landed at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, California. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • In a media call on Wednesday, Dr Nancy Messonnier of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the passengers have been 'screened, monitored and evaluated' for signs of coronavirus since landing. (dailymail.co.uk)
  • COVID is an airborne infectious disease spread by the air we share with others. (stopbullyingcoalition.org)
  • When the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) halved its recommended isolation time for people with COVID-19 to five days back in December, it said that the change was motivated by science. (stopbullyingcoalition.org)
  • Such dissent is bolstered by a series of studies confirming that many people with COVID-19 remain infectious well into the second week after they first experience symptoms. (stopbullyingcoalition.org)
  • Evidence of COVID in wastewater samples has emerged as a leading indicator of COVID infections likely to appear in ~10 days. (stopbullyingcoalition.org)
  • This approach ignores the so-called less severe cases, "mild disease," that can nevertheless create long COVID with continuing, disabling, chronic harm. (stopbullyingcoalition.org)
  • Can we contain the COVID-19 outbreak with the same measures as for SARS? (ooir.org)
  • On April 30th, 2021, Canada published a weekly COVID-19 epidemiology report that included a simple breakdown of cases and deaths linked to outbreaks, organized according to the location of the source of infection . (juliusruechel.com)
  • We combined multiple data sources to improve estimates of ZIKV infection attack rates (IARs), reporting rates of Zika virus disease (ZVD) and the risk of ZIKV-associated NC for 28 capital cities in Colombia. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • The best way to control disease and protect people from infection is to use public health measures, rather than only to depend on small groups or individuals to protect themselves. (stopbullyingcoalition.org)
  • We present a modelling pipeline using local seroprevalence data to obtain national disease burden estimates by disease stage. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • What emerges is a shocking story of scientific misconduct and breach of trust, which reveals the horrifying - and deadly - consequences of stripping data of context and allowing government to evade transparency. (juliusruechel.com)
  • Finally, predicted FoI values are used to estimate disease burden based on a disease progression model. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • The current CDC guidelines are designed to protect hospitals from too many people with severe disease. (stopbullyingcoalition.org)
  • We strongly urge authors submitting articles related to this emergency to BMC journals to share underlying interim and final research datasets relating to the outbreak as rapidly and widely as possible, including with public health and research communities and the WHO. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Barczak's own research, published on the medRxiv preprint server, suggests that one-quarter of people who have caught the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 could still be infectious after eight days. (stopbullyingcoalition.org)
  • Once the data is put into context, clear proof emerges that gross negligence on the part of government policymakers directly led to the preventable deaths of thousands, most especially among the most vulnerable that the government claims to be trying to protect. (juliusruechel.com)
  • In 2012, the World Health Organization (WHO) set the elimination of Chagas disease intradomiciliary vectorial transmission as a goal by 2020. (imperial.ac.uk)