coronaviridae
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Italian Man With Fever Learns He Has Monkeypox, COVID-19, and HIV All at Once
A 36-year-old man in Italy appears to be uniquely unlucky, after he was hospitalized and diagnosed with COVID-19, monkeypox, and HIV over a span of a single week in July. Thankfully, his COVID and monkeypox co-infections did successfully clear up without issue, and he has since been placed on HIV treatment.
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Scientists Deliberately Infected People With COVID-19: Here’s What Happened to Them
The first results from a UK trial that deliberately exposed people to the coronavirus are finally here. Among other things, the research found that people who caught the infection became symptomatic within two days and remained infectious for longer than a week. None of the volunteers became severely sick, though a few did continue to…
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‘Reckless and Dangerous’: CDC’s New, Shorter Covid-19 Isolation Guidelines Disturb Some Health Experts
Fresh off the Christmas holiday, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its guidance on how long people should isolate away from others if they’ve been infected by or exposed to the coronavirus. The change effectively cuts the waiting period in half for many people, particularly those without symptoms. But at least some…
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First Case of Omicron Variant Detected in the U.S.
The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has officially reached the United States. This afternoon, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the first case of the worrying variant, involving a California resident who recently returned from South Africa, where the variant was first identified. The patient was fully vaccinated, is reportedly experiencing mild symptoms…