This is the #1 Way You'll Get COVID, According to Doctors
As your city reopens, you're washing your hands frequently and using hand sanitizer after touching every ATM button—but you may be making one major mistake. The Wall Street Journal studied the common consensus among scientists and reports: "It's not common to contract COVID-19 from a contaminated surface, scientists say. And fleeting encounters with people outdoors are unlikely to spread the coronavirus. Instead, the major culprit is close-up, person-to-person interactions for extended periods.
Experts Believe COVID-19 Is Likely to Become Endemic - Here's What That Means
It's been months since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and after so much loss and uncertainty, people are understandably desperate for it to end. Unfortunately, top scientists don't think the novel coronavirus will fade away anytime soon. In fact, it seems more likely that COVID-19 will become endemic - meaning it will continue to exist in society just as other viruses have for years.
Blood type may predict your COVID-19 risk, study shows
A new study published in Blood Advances this week suggests that individuals with Type O blood may be less likely to contract COVID-19 and less likely to experience severe outcomes if they do. The researchers used health registry data from Denmark to analyze the blood types of 473,000 individuals who tested positive for COVID-19 and compared it to the 2.2 million people in the overall population.