Viral load in COVID-19 infection peaks later now than in the early days of the pandemic, driving implications for rapid testing, researchers say. A paper published in Clinical Infectious Diseases has ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — Health officials reported a small spike in likely COVID cases and hospital admissions over the month of July. According to recent data from the Metropolitan Council, the COVID RNA ...

At-home rapid COVID-19 tests can reveal more about viral load than a simple positive/negative result, according to experts. "By definition, the basic technology suggests that you somehow have to go ...

It's intuitive that a robust immune response to COVID-19 will result in a less severe, even asymptomatic infection. A new study puts some numbers to the term "robust." The study, in 92 critically ill ...

MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL (5/02/2024) — A team of University of Minnesota researchers found that metformin, a drug commonly used to treat diabetes, can decrease the amount of COVID-19 virus in the body and ...

BEIJING - The fast-spreading delta variant of the novel coronavirus has been gaining traction worldwide since it was first detected in India, and now researchers may have an idea of why: Its viral ...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which was caused by the rapid transmission of the severe acute respiratory disease coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has claimed more than 6.9 million lives ...

Who gets sick? Much of COVID-19’s prevalence, severity, and lethality may have to do with viral particles you are exposed to—the issue of viral load, also called viral dose. Not much is written on ...

The safety and efficacy of monoclonal antibody therapy with low-dose bamlanivimab plus etesevimab was similar to that of higher doses of the drug combination in patients with mild to moderate COVID-19 ...