- When COVID-19 or flu viruses kill, they often have an accomplice – bacterial infections https://theconversation.com/when-covid-19-or-flu-viruses-kill-they-often-have-an-accomplice-bacterial-infections-187056 17 comments science
- Children Often Carry More Coronavirus than Adults Do. Younger children harbored between 10 times and 100 times more virus than the older children, and adults, according to a study. But it’s not clear if their high viral load makes kids more likely to infect others. https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/children-often-carry-more-coronavirus-than-adults-study-67785 611 comments science
- Study: Breakthrough Covid-19 infections occur more often and are more severe in immunocompromised. Researchers suggest recent recommendations to provide a third primary series dose of an mRNA Covid-19 vaccine to patients with weaker immune systems after the initial two doses. https://newsroom.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/study-on-over-a-million-people-shows-breakthrough-covid-19-infections-occur-more-often-and-are-more-severe-in-immunocompromised/ 7 comments science
- Why COVID-19 Patients Lose Their Sense of Smell: A Harvard study finds proteins that the Coronavirus uses to enter the body are extremely common in the nose, and infections there often cause olfactory supporting cells to self-destruct https://www.freethink.com/articles/sense-of-smell-covid-19-patients 7 comments science