Mumbai: Artificial intelligence has boosted the detection of tuberculosis in the city in the last two years even among those with no outward symptoms of the deadly disease, according to civic doctors. BMC executive health officer Dr Mangala Gomare told TOI, “Around 35 per cent of our confirmed TB cases were incidentally detected, that is … Read more
CDC: “COVID Data Tracker.” The White House: “Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and COVID-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha.” Center for infectious Disease Research and Policy: “CDC: 58% of Americans have had COVID-19.” Stephen Kissler, PhD, infectious disease researcher, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston. Amesh Adalja, infectious disease specialist, Johns … Read more
A positive lateral flow result can now be taken as a first and final confirmation that you have Covid. Source link
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has said that only three in 10,000 lateral flow tests would show a false positive and that the government is confident that the tests are accurate. From Tuesday 11 January, any asymptomatic person who has tested positive for coronavirus will no longer have to take a PCR test to confirm their … Read more
The healthy secretary says that asymptomatic testing for coronavirus can help ”break the chains of transmission”. Matt Hancock told the BBC’s Andrew Marr that asymptomatic testing in Liverpool helped the case rate fall more rapidly than areas where only Covid restrictions were in place. Read more: Covid testing for asymptomatic workers expanded Source link
People who cannot work from home should be prioritised for rapid tests in England, the government says. Source link
By Robert PreidtHealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Dec. 17, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Most pregnant women infected with the new coronavirus don’t have symptoms, a new study shows. Researchers analyzed data from a coronavirus screening program in the labor and delivery unit of Elmhurst Hospital in New York City during March and April. Of … Read more
By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Nov. 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Most people with the new coronavirus appear to actively shed infectious virus for about eight days. But a woman in Kirkland, Wash., may have set a record, shedding the virus for at least 70 days. The 71-year-old was infected … Read more
By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, Oct. 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Grocery workers are likely at greater risk of infection with the new coronavirus, a new study shows. Not only that, but because a high percentage of them have no symptoms when they are infected, they could become … Read more
WASHINGTON: Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model that they say can distinguish asymptomatic Covid-19 patients from healthy individuals through their cough recordings, and show the results on a smartphone app. Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US found that people who are asymptomatic may differ from healthy individuals in the … Read more