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Opening a window could cut the amount of coronavirus in a room by half, according to a new observational study of infected college students in a University of Oregon isolation dormitory.The study posted online is small and has not yet been…

The coronavirus pandemic has been particularly stormy for children as they have settled down for the past year and a half, experiencing disrupted schooling, increasing social isolation, and heightened anxiety at a time when upheaval has…

People infected with the highly contagious Delta variant are twice as likely to be hospitalized as people infected with the Alpha variant, according to a large new UK study.The study, published on Friday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases,…

On Tuesday, January 12, 2021, a health care worker looks after a Covid 19 patient in the intensive care unit of the Robert Bosch Hospital in Stuttgart.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesA new study has shown that the risk of rare blood…

Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine has been linked to an increased risk of myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle, confirms a major new study from Israel. But the side effect remains rare, and Covid-19 is more likely to cause…

Covid vaccinee Petra Moinar prepares syringes with the AstraZeneca vaccine before it is administered on March 8, 2021 at the Battersea Arts Center in London, England.Chris J. Ratcliffe | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesLONDON - Protection…

Medics transfer a patient on a stretcher from an ambulance outside of Emergency at Coral Gables Hospital where Coronavirus patients are treated in Coral Gables near Miami, on August 16, 2021.Chandan Khanna | AFP | Getty ImagesUnvaccinated…

The study is the latest in the growing field of rapid attribution science, which examines extreme weather events like downpours and heat waves to see whether they were influenced by climate change, and if so, to what extent. It was…

In most cases, the chain of transmission ended with the infected child, but in 27.3 percent of households, children passed the virus on to at least one other resident.Updated Aug 16, 2021, 6:26 p.m. ETYoung people were most likely to bring…

More than 17,000 years ago, a woolly mammoth now known as the Kik wandered far and wide across Alaska during its 28-year life.When Kik was young, he spent most of his time inland Alaska, a less mountainous area. Then, when he turned 15,…