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4 days ago · COVID-19, highly contagious respiratory illness, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 is caused by the coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2. There is no cure for COVID-19, but individuals can be protected against severe illness through vaccination.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
5 days ago · SARS-CoV-2 articles from across Nature Portfolio. SARS-CoV-2 is a positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus. It is contagious in humans and is the cause of the coronavirus disease 2019...
4 days ago · As of 28 April 2024, over 775 million confirmed cases and more than seven million deaths have been reported globally. During the period from 1 to 28 April 2024, COVID-19 new hospitalizations and admissions to an intensive care unit (ICU) both recorded an overall decrease of 35% and 45% with over 32 000 and more than 250 admissions, respectively.
5 days ago · The first involves who is most likely to die from a pandemic virus. Covid primarily killed people 65 years and older, but Covid was an anomaly.The five previous pandemics we have reliable data ...
2 days ago · Sat, May 18, 2024, 9:13 AM EDT · 2 min read. (NEXSTAR) – On March 11, 2020, the director-general of the World Health Organization told the world that COVID-19 “can be characterized as a ...
1 day ago · Since the COVID-19 pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 has caused unexplained, chronic, post-infection symptoms in survivors. The phenomenon, known as post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection or "long COVID ...
4 days ago · 5 May. The Afghan Government has distributed free bread to hundreds of thousands of Afghans due to the disruption of food supplies and inflation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of the first phase of the project, over 250,000 families in Kabul have received ten flat pieces of Naan bread a day.
