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How Black Fungus Could Be Impacting COVID-19 Shape 3 hrs ago Elizabeth Bacharach © Provided by Shape what is mucormycosis and is it related to covid-19 , fungus and covid , mucormycosis or black fungus This week, a scary, new term has dominated much of the COVID-19 conversation. It's called mucormycosis or "black fungus," and you've likely heard more about the potentially deadly infection due to its increasing prevalence in India, where coronavirus cases are still skyrocketing. Specifically, the country is reporting a growing number of mucormycosis diagnoses in people who...

Credit: Getty Images By this point in the coronavirus pandemic, you've likely become familiar with a veritable dictionary worth of new words and phrases: social distancing, ventilator, pulse oximeter, spike proteins, among many others. The latest term to join the dialogue? Comorbidity. And while comorbidity is nothing novel in the medical world, the term is increasingly being discussed as coronavirus vaccination continues to roll out. That's due largely in part to the fact that some areas have moved beyond vaccinating only frontline essential workers and those 75 and older to now include peo...