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How Long Are Kids With COVID Infectious?
Quizzes > Weekly News Quiz — You passed medical training, now see if you can pass our weekly quiz by MedPage Today Staff October 28, 2023 The 24-hour news cycle is just as important to medicine as it is to politics, finance, or sports. At MedPage Today, new information is posted daily, but keeping up
Isolating infectious SARS-CoV-2 from hospital room air samples that were kept frozen for more than a year
A) Hospital room of patient with COVID-19 layout depicting the position of the sampling devices and the distance to the head of the patient. SKC 37mm closed-face cassettes allow efficient cut off for sampling aerosol and not droplets. They were used pointing downward to prevent accidental contamination by droplets. The Series 110A Liquid Spot Sampler
Why is omicron more infectious but less severe? What we know so far
The omicron variant infects cells in a different way, is present in higher levels in saliva and seems more likely to cause asymptomatic infections - all findings that could help explain why omicron is spreading so rapidly but resulting in a lower proportion of hospitalisations and deaths Health 6 January 2022 By Michael Le Page…