Student close contact behavior and COVID-19 transmission in China's classrooms
COVID-19
LitCovid
A National Institute of Health literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus.
LitCovid is the most comprehensive resource on the subject, providing a central access to 445,637 (and growing ) relevant articles in PubMed. The articles are updated daily and are further categorized by different research topics (e.g. transmission) and geographic locations.
Covid Studies Database
A large database of studies.
Long COVID is Real
An interactive website that allows users to click on different body parts to explore the effects of COVID-19 infections on them, complete with sourced citations for each claim.
Navigating Disability Justice: Addressing Long Covid & Health Inequities | NIWRC
Another great webinar from the National Indigenous Women's Resource Center.
COVID-19 Safety: How To Stay Safe, Keep Each Other Safe, and Move as Leaders and Good Relatives in Collective Care Efforts | NIWRC
Incredible webinar from the National Indigenous Women's Resource Center, presented in December 2024.
Long COVID: The Experts Were Wrong with Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly and Hazie Thompson
Could you have Long COVID and not know it? Possibly, according to a leading Long COVID physician-epidemiologist who explains what the condition is and how it has impacted millions of people around the world. We also meet someone living with Long COVID who shares what the experience has been like for them. More than 400 million people (and counting) are affected by Long COVID around the world. Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly is a physician-epidemiologist and TIME 100 Health awardee in St. Louis. He is one of the world’s leading Long COVID researchers. As we approach the grim 5th anniversary of the COVID pandemic, he joins Daniella on Public Health is Dead to outline a major public health challenge of our time: If we don't die, what happens to many of us after we survive a COVID infection? Especially if we keep getting reinfected? Dr. Al-Aly explains what listening to patients allows the best researchers to do, addresses some of the common rebuttals to his team’s study data, and shares his recommendations to help turn this public health failure around.
We get to know Hazie Thompson, a former cook who has been living with Long COVID in Toronto since 2020 – they share how the condition has affected them and what they would like healthcare providers to know. The stakes of ignoring Long COVID are high.
People with Long COVID have been dismissed and ignored to everyone’s disadvantage because more people keep joining the ranks. There’s a lot of research. There are a lot of reports. But our public health leaders are pretty quiet about what Long COVID can do to us. Something’s getting lost in translation. And you deserve to know.
‘I was in denial about it’: actor Matt McGorry on having long Covid
"I was in denial about it, because I knew there’s no easy fix. I knew that if I did have long Covid, that I probably couldn’t afford to get it again, and if I couldn’t afford to get it again, then everything in my life would have to change. Breaking out of that denial was the first step."
In Cleveland and beyond researchers begin to unravel the mystery of l…
Kids and teens who get Covid more prone to diabetes, study finds — Washington Post
Science Brief: SARS-CoV-2 and Surface (Fomite) Transmission for Indoo…
SARS-CoV-2 infection via the fomite transmission route is low, and generally less than 1 in 10,000, which means that each contact with a contaminated surface has less than a 1 in 10,000 chance of causing an infection.
Noah Lyles' collapse underscores our collective COVID denial
But seeing an American Olympic star sprawled out and gasping on the track, and then taken away in a wheelchair, was more than a shocking image. It also represented the general “mission accomplished” attitude toward SARS-CoV-2: We think we’ve won against this virus and we haven’t.
Pediatric long-COVID levels hold steady in US, result in activity limitations
The Astounding Physics of N95 Masks
How COVID-19 is Airborne | The Agenda
Canadian public health officials are increasingly agreeing with the idea that COVID-19 is a disease that can spread through the air, not just via large droplets. The Agenda asks what an increase in aerosol transmission through lingering airborne particles means for keeping Ontarians safe from the Omicron variant.
The Scientist, the Air and the Virus - The New York Times
The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill
All pandemic long, scientists brawled over how the virus spreads. Droplets! No, aerosols! At the heart of the fight was a teensy error with huge consequences.
This MacArthur 'genius' knew the initial theory of COVID transmission was flawed
When COVID-19 first emerged, Linsey Marr suspected right away it spread through the air. Time has proved this aerosols engineer right. Now she's being honored with a MacArthur "genius grant."
Opinion | What We Know About Covid-19, the Flu and the Air We Breathe…
"Research has found that, as with SARS-CoV-2, flu virus is exhaled in small particles by infected people while breathing, talking and coughing; and the flu virus has been found in aerosols in indoor environments, including hospitals, children’s day care centers and airplanes. As with the new coronavirus, people can spread the flu even when they don’t have symptoms, which is further indication that transmission can occur without coughing or sneezing and doesn’t require large, wet droplets."
Airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2
There is overwhelming evidence that inhalation of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) represents a major transmission route for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). There is an urgent need to harmonize discussions about modes of virus transmission across disciplines to ensure the most effective control strategies and provide clear and consistent guidance to the public. To do so, we must clarify the terminology to distinguish between aerosols and droplets using a size threshold of 100 µm, not the historical 5 µm (1). This size more effectively separates their aerodynamic behavior, ability to be inhaled, and efficacy of interventions.
Ten scientific reasons in support of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2
Our Early Confusion About Airborne COVID-19 Transmission Still Haunts Us
Two years after the pandemic started it's clear that early confusion around how COVID-19 was transmitted was disastrous for our response
Indoor Air and Coronavirus (COVID-19) | US EPA
With COVID-19, Air Is Both the Problem and the Solution
On March 28, 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) tweeted out, “FACT: #COVID19 is NOT airborne.” For medical doctors and biomedical scientists (including me),
Effectiveness of Mask Wearing to Control Community Spread of SARS-CoV-2
This JAMA Insights CDC review summarizes accumulating evidence that mask wearing reduces spread of SARS-CoV-2 infection and that universal mandatory mask wearing policies reduce infections and deaths and emphasizes face masks are one component of pandemic control measures, including physical...
Masks Work. Distorting Science to Dispute the Evidence Doesn't
New mask studies relying on a medical paradigm do not erase decades of engineering and occupational science that show they work
Changes in memory and cognition during the SARS-CoV-2 human challenge study
Study found that healthy volunteers infected with SARS-CoV-2 had measurably worse cognitive function for up to a year after infection when compared to uninfected controls. Significantly, infected controls did not report any symptoms related to these cognitive deficits, indicating that they were unaware of them.
MSK Library Guides: COVID Impacts: Cumulative Risks of Long COVID
Detailed information and resources on the long-term health consequences of COVID-19 infection and the broad social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic
Repeat COVID-19 infections increase risk of organ failure, death | WashU Medicine
Researchers recommend masks, vaccines, vigilance to prevent reinfection
How Risky Are Repeat COVID Infections? What We Know So Far | Scientif…
“Every time you get infected [with COVID], it does harm to the body in some way,” says Avindra Nath, a neurologist at the National Institutes of Health who has led research on long COVID and other post-viral conditions.