Epidemiology

Access to Campus Food Pantry Improves Students’ Health

While access to food is a nationwide worry, college students go through food insecurity four times more often than the general public. A study article featured in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, released by Elsevier, goes over how students' use of a campus food pantry can favorably affect their physical and mental...

A Computer Science Technique Might Assist Determine When The Pandemic is ‘Over’

The world wants the pandemic to end and life to return to normal. When will that happen? Marc Fernandes/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesIn early 2022, nearly 2 years after Covid was stated a pandemic by the World Health Organization, experts are mulling a big concern: when is a pandemic "over"?So, what's the response? What standards should...

Isolation Guidelines for Close Contacts are Changing. What’s Next?

Close contacts of individuals with COVID in New South Wales and Victoria will soon no longer need to isolate for seven days. Other states and territories, including Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory Area, are taking into consideration. Or will likely reveal comparable moves.In NSW from 6 pm tomorrow and in Victoria from before...

Additional “Booster” Dose of COVID-19 Vaccine Found To be Safe

The NIAID-sponsored research study analyzed dose in adults fully vaccinated with any EUA or accepted COVID-19 vaccine.According to preliminary clinical trial results reported in The New England Journal of Medicine, an extra dose of vaccine is safe for adults who had formerly received a complete regimen of any of three COVID-19 vaccines provided by...

Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Linked With Raised Risk of Carditis (Heart Inflammation)

Illustration of a healthy human heart. Credit: Liya Graphics/ ShutterstockRegardless of reduced absolute risk, Pfizer/BioNTech BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccine linked with a raised risk of carditis.Considerably increased risk in teenagers after the second dosage may call for sophisticated vaccination strategies.A case-control research study found an elevated relative risk of carditis associated with BNT162b2 (also known...

Breaking Down the Unusual Biology of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant

A capability to construct a greater concentration of viral particulates in the airways of people and also abnormalities that would improve their ability to potentially infect human blood cells could be just what provides the Delta version with its transformational upside.Although SARS-CoV-2 is more capable than it has been before. Its newest expression, the...