Monthly Archives: April, 2020

TOPLINE 13.9% of people surveyed in New York tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies—a whopping 10 times higher than the state’s presumed infection rate, but still far from what would be considered herd immunity from the pandemic. NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 23: Members of the community wait in line for meals to be distributed at…

/ France Issued on: 23/04/2020 - 19:38Modified: 23/04/2020 - 19:38 A woman smokes a cigarette while wearing a mask, as the number of coronavirus cases grow around the world, in central London, Britain March 14, 2020. © Dylan Martinez, REUTERS Nicotine could protect people from contracting the coronavirus, according to new research in France, where…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Cells in the lungs, intestines and nasal passages were identified in a recent study as those most susceptible to the coronavirus.Researchers hope the findings can better inform decisions moving forward in finding a vaccine.Experts identified the cell types which produce the two proteins…

Another day, another potentially revised timeline in the U.S. chapter of this pandemic. The latest one comes from a Northeastern University estimate of how the coronavirus began spreading undetected in several major American cities in February.As the New York Times reports today, the Northeastern model is an inherently inexact way of attempting to understand how…

Nearly one in 25 American adults has serious mental illness, which means odds are someone in your life is coping with anxiety, depression, OCD, bipolar disorder or another debilitating condition. Still, shame about mental illness — likely a holdover from when people wrongly believed such conditions were character flaws or a mother’s fault — can make it hard to…