In early April, a report surfaced from South Korea that health officials there saw positive test results from -nearly 100- patients who had previously recovered from COVID-19 and had tested negative. Were these patients reinfected? Was this a relapse or a reactivation of the virus? Could faulty testing be to blame? Scientists and doctors all over the world began investigating. Some Test Positive for...
For a while, it looked like COVID-19 was going easy on young people. ScienceAlert reported in February that most children appeared less susceptible to the infection and possibly even experienced milder illnesses if they did get sick. Young children mostly seemed to be unaffected, while teens and young adults crowded beaches with perceived immunity. Then, in the blink of an eye, reality hit and we're...
The -CDC- warns everyone to take precautions out in public, even advising against touching the skin around the eyes, but we could be far less protected than we think. New evidence is emerging on the level of eye involvement researchers are seeing in COVID-19 patients. The implications of this could be huge, especially when it comes to how we approach safety outside the home. Precautions aren't preventions....
SARS, MERS and COVID-19 have become household names for many of us during this pandemic, but what do we really know about them? Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) all originate from coronaviruses, a specific type of virus that features spiky proteins surrounding the surface of the virus. But they're not the same,...
As the pandemic rages on, the symptoms of the coronavirus only seem to get weirder and more varied. This isn’t an average bug; that much is for sure. Reports are coming in detailing all sorts of terrifying and bizarre new symptoms, leaving some people wondering what to expect next. And the list only continues to grow. Here are some of the -other- COVID-19 symptoms you may not have heard of. Blood Clots...