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The protection offered by COVID-19 vaccination declines more rapidly in people with severe obesity than in those with normal weight, scientists at the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh have found. more
Health systems show first major signs of post-COVID-19 recovery

New York: Health systems in most countries have started showing the first major signs of recovery three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, which has left millions dead and hundreds of mill ...

WHO launches new pandemic prevention plan, as COVID deaths fall 95 per cent

New York: The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday launched a new initiative to help strengthen countries’ ability to plan for, and deal with, another deadly pandemic like C ...

Is there a chance of another COVID-19 like pandemic to take place in next 10 years: Check out what risk modelling shows

Airfinity’s new risk modelling, that is being presented at the Rhodes Summit in London Friday the 14th, indicates there’s a 27.5 pct chance that a pandemic as deadly as COVID- ...

Researchers find sleep disturbance prevalent in long COVID-19

Cleveland Clinic researchers found 41% of patients with long COVID, had moderate to severe sleep disturbances.

Scientists confirm existence of Raccoon Dogs at Wuhan market prior to COVID-19 outbreak

Beijing: Raccoon dogs and other animals susceptible to COVD-19 were sold at the market in Wuhan prior to its closure in 2020 over the coronavirus pandemic, though its still unclear whethe ...

mRNA vaccine beats infection for key defense against COVID-19, Stanford Medicine scientists find

The Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA vaccine directed at COVID-19 is much better than natural infection at revving up key immune cells called killer T cells to fight future infection by SARS-CoV-2, t ...

Keeping COVID-19 in check likely to require periodic boosters

Between natural infection and a global vaccination campaign, most people now have some immunity against the virus that causes COVID-19.

COVID-19 Spread: Nepal confirms spread of XBB.1.16 sub-variant

Kathmandu: Nepal has confirmed the spread of Omicron’s sub-variant XBB.1.16 in the Himalayan nation.

Substance use disorders do not increase likelihood of COVID-19 deaths: Study

New research from Boston Medical Center found that substance use disorders do not increase the likelihood of dying from COVID-19. Published in Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment, the ...