The COVID-19 virus is affecting summer camps, day care centers and festivals. Silently, it infects more Quebecers every day under the sun of a summer that seems to have returned to normal. The Just for Laughs festival thought of relaunching its programming in a big way this summer with its musical Ana. But the nightmare …
The Human Epidemiology and Response to SARS-CoV-2 (HEROS) study also finds that children 12 years of age and younger are just as likely to be infected with the virus as adolescents and adults, but confirms that most infections in children, that is, 75% are asymptomatic vs 59% in adolescents and 38% in adults. Finally, the …
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A comprehensive study of thousands of COVID-19 patients in Ontario hospitals finds links between the severity of their infections and the levels of air pollutants they face. “This adds to existing evidence that air pollution is a silent killer,” said Chen Chen, an environmental epidemiologist at the University of California and lead author of the …
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Most COVID-19 patients recover from their acute infection within two weeks, but some pieces of the virus may take time to clear from the body. A new study, one of the largest with people hospitalized with COVID-19, shows that some patients may continue to carry these viral residues for weeks or even months after their …
Users of rapid antigen detection tests for COVID-19 make several mistakes when handling them and interpreting the results, Montreal researchers have found, but the situation can be remedied by providing them with more detailed instructions. Some of the most common errors involved the amount of liquid to be used and the identification of a positive …
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