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The World Health Organization plans to update its advice after hundreds of experts urged the agency to reconsider the risk of aerosol transmission.Gamblers in masks at a Las Vegas casino on Saturday. Scientists are increasingly concerned about indoor settings in which the coronavirus may linger in the air.Credit...John Locher/Associated PressJuly 7, 2020Updated 5:38 p.m. ETAfter…

A review from health experts in the United Kingdom has found no evidence that vitamin D deficiency is an independent risk factor for COVID-19. However, the country’s National Health Service recommend taking a daily vitamin D supplement to compensate for any lack of sunlight exposure during lockdown.Share on PinterestA review of existing studies finds no…

NEW YORK (AP) — There is little evidence that the protests that erupted after George Floyd’s death caused a significant increase in U.S. coronavirus infections, according to public health experts.If the protests had driven an explosion in cases, experts say, the jumps would have started to become apparent within two weeks — and perhaps as…

Smokers are less likely to be diagnosed with Covid-19 compared to those who have never touched a cigarette, another study has claimed. An array of research carried out since the pandemic began has shown smokers are at lower risk of getting the coronavirus.  Now researchers in Mexico have added more weight to the evidence, which experts have…

Researchers who examined the lungs of patients killed by covid-19 found evidence that it attacks the lining of blood vessels there, a critical difference from the lungs of people who died of the flu, according to a report published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine.Critical parts of the lungs of patients infected by…