October 21, 2020

What Will Convince Americans to Get a COVID-19 Vaccine?

TUESDAY, Oct. 20, 2020 -- Promoting any emerging COVID-19 vaccine to a skeptical public could be tough.

But a new survey finds vaccine uptake might rise if the shot is promoted by medical experts, not politicians, and if it's been proven safe and effective through a rigorous approval process.

October 15, 2020

Your Blood Type May Predict Your Risk For Severe COVID-19

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 14, 2020 -- There's more evidence that blood type may affect a person's risk for COVID-19 and severe illness from the disease.

The findings are reported in a pair of studies published Oct. 14 in the journal Blood Advances.

October 12, 2020

Low Vitamin D Levels Tied to Higher Odds for Severe COVID

FRIDAY, Sept. 25, 2020 -- Low blood levels of vitamin D might heighten people's odds for severe or even fatal COVID-19, new research shows.

Taking in a healthy level of vitamin D may therefore "reduce the complications, including the cytokine storm [release of too many proteins into the blood too quickly] and ultimately death from COVID-19," said study author Dr. Michael Holick. He's a professor of medicine, physiology, biophysics and molecular medicine at Boston University School of Medicine.

September 21, 2020

COVID-19 Prevention Might Translate Into Record Low Flu Rates: CDC

THURSDAY, Sept. 17, 2020 -- The final statistics are in for America's last flu season, and the news is good: Record low rates of influenza were reported as cases plummeted during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic.

Why? Researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention believe the social distancing measures put into place across the country last spring kept more than the new coronavirus at bay.

September 17, 2020

Just How Reliable Are COVID-19 Tests? Experts Weigh In

THURSDAY, Sept. 10, 2020 -- You're feeling pretty darned sick -- headache, fever, fatigue, a cough -- but your COVID-19 test came back negative.

What do you do now?

September 17, 2020

Cellphone Tracking Can Help Predict Pandemic's Spread

TUESDAY, Sept. 1, 2020 -- Cellphone activity could be used to monitor and predict spread of the new coronavirus, researchers say.

They analyzed cellphone use in more than 2,700 U.S. counties between early January and early May to identify where the phones were used, including workplaces, homes, retail and grocery stores, parks and transit stations.