As India sets a record for covid-19 deaths, variant worries grow globally Adam Taylor © Provided by The Washington Post
India set another coronavirus milestone this week. On Wednesday, authorities announced the country had recorded more than 4,500 deaths from covid-19 for the prior 24 hours, setting a world record. That number of deaths higher than the previous record of 4,400 set in the United States on Jan. 20 comes as new cases appear to be declining in India, following days on end when new daily cases broke records in late April and early May, peaking at more than 414,000 on May 6. As The Washington Post’s Joanna Slater reports from New Delhi, deaths from covid-19, the disease the virus causes, lag infections by several weeks. Despite the record number of deaths, there are some positive signs that India’s surge may be slowing, with less than 300,000 new daily cases this week. But there have been long-standing questions about the accuracy of t
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Cilia are Discovered to be Crucial to the Lymphatic System
In recent years, researchers have been learning more about why cellular antennas called cilia are so important. Cilia can act as sensors of the cell s environment and can send and receive signals. Dysfunction in these structures have been associated with many different diseases, which are sometimes referred to as ciliopathies. More and more cells are being found to have cilia, and they are being connected with more aspects of human physiology.
Scientists have now found that in humans and mice, cells called lymphatic endothelial cells (LECs), which line the inside and outside of lymphatic vessels, have primary cilia. The primary cilia on LECs may be playing a crucial role in the development and maintenance of the lymphatic network throughout life as the network responds to wounds and cancer. In a mouse model, the researchers found that when primary cilia don t form on LECs, the lymphatic vessels will grow too much in certain
How a Colorado Campus Became a Pandemic Laboratory
Colorado Mesa University and the Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard have spent the last year exploring new approaches to managing outbreaks.
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One weekend last August, Shynell Moore woke up with a headache and a sore throat. Ms. Moore, then just a few weeks into her junior year at Colorado Mesa University, pulled out her phone and fired up a symptom-tracking app called Scout.
Within seconds of reporting her symptoms, the screen turned red: She might have Covid-19, the app said. She promptly got a call from a school administrator, and before the day was out, she had packed some clothes and her elephant ear fish, Dumbo, and moved into quarantine housing. Her Covid-19 test soon came back positive.
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