Italy’s surge of COVID-19 cases continued today in the wake of a national lockdown announced yesterday, as some of the country’s neighbors closed borders and other countries in Europe, such as France, reported similar steep rises. Meanwhile, more countries—including the Ebola-hit Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)—reported their first cases, while cases continued to decline in [...]
Today during a press conference in Albany, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the country’s first containment zone in New Rochelle, Westchester County, the epicenter of New York’s COVID-19 outbreak. Schools, churches, synagogues, and other spots that hold large gatherings will be closed or canceled for 14 days, and the National Guard will help disinfect the 1-mile [...]
An observational study today in The Lancet that involved seriously ill adults hospitalized with confirmed COVID-19 early in the outbreak in Wuhan, China, found that advanced age, signs of sepsis, and blood clotting issues were all risk factors for in-hospital death. Knowing these risk factors could help healthcare providers identify COVID-19 patients with a poor prognosis early on, according [...]
Immediately after Christian Drosten published a genetic sequence of the novel coronavirus online on 28 February, he took to Twitter to issue a warning. As the virus has raced around the world, more than 350 genome sequences have been shared on the online platform GISAID. They hold clues to how the new virus, named severe [...]
Testing for the novel coronavirus in the Seattle area will get a huge boost in the coming weeks as a project funded by Bill Gates and his foundation begins offering home-testing kits that will allow people who fear they may be infected to swab their noses and send the samples back for analysis. Results, which [...]
A new detection kit for the novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) has been developed. It can give a result in 15 minutes through the test of just one drop of the patient’s blood, China’s State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases revealed on Friday. The detection kit, which has passed preliminary lab and clinical evaluations, is the [...]
‘A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one’. – Heraclitus of Ephesus The study of buildings, and in particular indoor air science, has great intellectual merit. Buildings are highly heterogeneous, with steep spatial gradients in materials, environmental conditions, and occupant activities. Buildings are dynamic, changing over timescales that range from seconds (e.g., as HVAC [...]
MANILA – Meat products from China seized at the Manila port in December tested positive for African swine fever (ASF), the Bureau of Customs (BOC) said Saturday. The shipment, consigned to Dynamic M Intl Trading Inc., contained food items such as dumplings, pork-chicken balls and roasted chicken wings. Credit: iStock, Smederevac Read more… The [...]
Two particularly tenacious species of bacteria have colonized the potable water dispenser aboard the International Space Station (ISS), but a new study suggests that they are no more dangerous than closely related strains on Earth. Aubrie O’Rourke of the J. Craig Venter Institute and colleagues report these findings in a new paper published February 19, [...]
The 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic, which was first reported in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, and has been declared a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization, may progress to a pandemic associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. SARS-CoV-2 is genetically related to SARS-CoV, which caused a global epidemic with [...]
