TestBoston, a large-scale research study that will facilitate at-home testing for both the SARS-CoV-2 virus and antibodies against it, is accepting applications from 10,000 current and former Brigham and Women’s Hospital patients. Researchers from Harvard-affiliated Brigham, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and the MGB Center for COVID Innovation said the test will detect… Read More: At-home COVID-19 test study launches in Boston »
Petri OeschgerGetty Images It used to be that you’d start to get the sniffles or wake up with a fever and body aches and you had a pretty good idea whether it was a run-of-the-mill head cold or a knock-you-out-for-a-week case of the flu. But times are different. The COVID-19 outbreak has made it trickier… Read More: Is it a Cold, the Flu, or COVID-19? »
The year 2020 can be summarized simply by one word — COVID-19 — as it was the culprit that froze the entire world. For more than 8 months so far, movement between nations has been paralyzed all because there are no means to prevent or treat the virus and the diagnosis takes long. In Korea,… Read More: Diagnosing COVID-19 in just 30 minutes »
Refusing to self-isolate when told to is now illegal in England from Monday, with fines of up to £10,000. Anyone who tests positive for Covid-19, or has been told they have been in contact with someone who has, now has a legal duty to quarantine. It comes as a study commissioned by the government found… Read More: Covid-19: Up to £10,000 fine for failure to self-isolate in… »