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The ongoing disruptive changes from efforts to reduce the spread of COVID-19 are having a substantial negative impact on the physical and mental well-being of parents and their children across the United States, according to a new national survey. Source: Health, well-being and food security of families deteriorating under COVID-19 stress
Continue Reading →A new study looks at the growth of global livestock farming and the threat to biodiversity, and the health risks to both humans and domesticated animals. Source: Livestock expansion is a factor in global pandemics
Continue Reading →A unique and rapid SARS-CoV-2 surrogate virus neutralisation test (sVNT) may be the much needed boost to current COVID-19 investigations to determine infection rate, herd immunity, predicted humoral protection, and vaccine efficacy during clinical trials. Source: Rapid COVID-19 test developed to detect neutralizing antibodies with high specificity and sensitivity
Continue Reading →Young men can eat twice as much food as they need to feel ‘full’, research shows. Source: Pizza study shows body copes surprisingly well with one-off calorie indulgence
Continue Reading →Home-made cloth face masks likely need a minimum of two layers, and preferably three, to prevent the dispersal of viral droplets from the nose and mouth that are associated with the spread of COVID-19, a new study indicates. Source: Home-made face masks likely need at least two layers to curb COVID-19 spread
Continue Reading →Some supposedly inert ingredients in common drugs — such as dyes and preservatives — may potentially be biologically active and could lead to unanticipated side effects, according to a preliminary new study. Source: Some 'inert' drug ingredients may be biologically active
Continue Reading →A new article shows that an annual investment of $30 billion should be enough to offset the costs of preventing another global pandemic such as COVID-19. Source: Preventing the next pandemic
Continue Reading →Researchers report on the decline of emergent medical, surgical and obstetric hospitalizations at the medical center during the six-week period following the week of the declaration of the COVID-19 public health emergency in Boston in mid-March 2020. Source: Study finds decline in emergent hospitalizations during early phase of COVID-19
Continue Reading →Scientists have discovered extinct strains of smallpox in the teeth of Viking skeletons — proving for the first time that the killer disease plagued humanity for at least 1400 years. Source: Vikings had smallpox and may have helped spread the world's deadliest virus
Continue Reading →The lack of human activity during lockdown caused human-linked vibrations in the Earth to drop by an average of 50 percent between March and May 2020. Source: COVID-19 lockdown caused 50 percent global reduction in human-linked Earth vibrations
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