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Juvenile inflammatory rheumatic disease associated with higher antibody responses to seasonal coronaviruses The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pathogen behind the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is a coronavirus of the betacoronavirus family. However, there are other human seasonal coronaviruses that cause endemic human infection, with mild common cold symptoms. The spectrum of SARS-CoV-2 infection also ranges from mild symptoms like a runny no...

Study: First influenza infection does not make people immune to future flu viruses A childs first influenza infection shapes their immunity to future airborne flu viruses-;including emerging pandemic strains. But not all flu strains spur the same initial immune defense, according to new findings published today by University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine virologists in the journal PLOS Pathogens. These results are relevant right now to the COVID-19 pandemic. They may explain age-based distr...

Scattershot sequencing won't help -- nation needs a strategy

Date Time How Childhood Infections Could Shape Pandemics A child’s first influenza infection shapes their immunity to future airborne flu viruses—including emerging pandemic strains. But not all flu strains spur the same initial immune defense, according to new findings published today by University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine virologists in the journal PLOS Pathogens. “These results are relevant right now to the COVID-19 pandemic,” said senior author Seema Lakdawala, Ph.D., assist...

email article Among patients with moderate to severe COVID-19, there was no difference in length of hospital stay in those given a single 200,000-IU dose of vitamin D 3 versus those given placebo in a randomized trial in Brazil. Median length of hospital stay was about 7 days for both groups, with no significant differences in secondary outcomes including in-hospital mortality, admission to ICU, or need for mechanical ventilation, reported Rosa Pereira, MD, PhD, of Universidade de Sao Pau...

A Rutgers expert discusses the need for increased precautions around gas appliances and other CO sources Winter storms that have brought record-breaking...

Questions about long-term efficacy become more insistent

It was found that about 20 per cent of these samples had antibodies to the seasonal coronaviruses. These antibodies, according to theory, can bind to cold-causing viruses, and also to “key sites on SARS-CoV-2,”

“Even with COVID cases surging in many parts of the country, you are probably more likely to come into contact with someone who has a cold than someone who has COVID-19,” said Dr. Catherine Troisi, an epidemiologist and associate professor of community...

Read more about Virus may never go away but could change into mild annoyance: Experts on Business Standard. What if COVID-19 never goes away? Experts say its likely that some version of the disease will linger for years. But what it will look like in the future is less clear.Will the coronavirus, which has already killed more than 2 million people