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We know that the coronavirus behind the COVID-19 crisis lived harmlessly in bats and other wildlife before it jumped the species barrier and spilled over to humans. Now, researchers at Duke University have identified a number of “silent” mutations in the roughly 30,000 letters of the virus’s genetic code that helped it thrive once it […]
People with ‘silent’ COVID-19 infection have as much coronavirus in their noses and throats as those with symptoms, reveals research published online in the journal Thorax. Given how many of these people there are—-a fifth of those infected, the study findings show—they may have a key role in driving the spread of COVID-19, warn the […]
How coronavirus is killing with SILENT hypoxia: Patients’ oxygen levels fall dangerously low – but they don’t have shortness of breath that usually signals the life-threatening condition Dr Richard Levitan, an emergency medicine practitioner, said he saw COVID-19 patients with pneumonia come into the hospital with low oxygen levels However they weren’t struggling to breathe, […]