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COVID-19 Symptoms Linger for Months, Study Reveals Hilma Hólm, cardiologist. Photo/Eggert Jóhannesson Vala Hafstað Thirty-two percent of people diagnosed with COVID-19 still suffered serious symptoms five to 11 months after falling ill, Morgunblaðið reports. A loss of smell and taste is strongly associated with a COVID-19 infection, but improves with time. Those are the results of research done by cardiologist Hilma Hólm and statistician Erna Ívarsdóttir on the long-term effects of a SARS-CoV-2 infection, presented at an informative meeting, held by ...

Sequence Analysis Helps Trace COVID-19 Infections Kári Stefánsson, CEO of deCode Genetics, at yesterday's meeting. mbl.is/Eggert Jóhannesson Vala Hafstað An informative meeting was held yesterday by deCode Genetics do discuss the results of several studies. Mbl.is interviewed  the company’s CEO, Kári Stefánsson, following the meeting. Kári explains the essential role sequence analysis has played in tracing infections in Iceland, and that deCode Genetics has in essence established a criteria that can be used for tracing infections in general. He st...

Dr. Chris Stout: Pandemic Update – March 3, 2021 LinkedIn 3/3/2021 © Provided by LinkedIn Welcome to this Week’s Edition – A Convenient Digest and Curated Collection of Verified News and Studies Related to Global Health and Humanitarian Intervention The most likely timeline for life to return to normal At long last, Americans are able to see the relief on the horizon, and the end of the outbreak that’s cost the country more than 500,000 lives. Popular Searches this spring will not be substantially different from the past year;  summer could, miraculously, be close to normal; an...

Iceland is particularly well-equipped to tamp down cases of Covid-19.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Pfizer vaccine's herd immunity study runs into an unexpected problem Vials labelled "COVID-19 Coronavirus Vaccine" and sryinge are seen in front of displayed Pfizer logo in this illustration taken, February 9, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo (REUTERS) . Updated: 15 Feb 2021, 01:09 PM IST Bloomberg Before Christmas, Iceland reached out to Pfizer. Their pitch: If Iceland could quickly get 500,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, the country could inoculate about 70% of its population by the end of March, creating the basis of a real-life study on whether herd immunity c...