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Dramatic antibody production in people infected during the 2002–04 outbreak furthers hopes of a vaccine against many coronaviruses.

Resettled refugees report significant COVID-19 stressors, including being reminded of past traumatic events, which had strong associations with increased PTSD, depression, health anxiety and disability symptoms.

Wellcome Trust has provided a grant of S$2.5 million to the National University of Singapore (NUS) to establish the Asian Clinical Research Network (ACRN) to conduct antimicrobial clinical research to develop the most effective ways to treat and prevent life-threatening drug-resistant infections.

Background: Multiple SARS-CoV-2 superspreading events suggest that aerosols play an important role in driving the COVID-19 pandemic. To better understand how airborne SARS-CoV-2 transmission occurs, we sought to determine viral loads within coarse (>5μm) and fine (≤5μm) respiratory aerosols produced when breathing, talking, and singing.

We aimed to assess health-impacts of short-term exposure to the air pollutants including PM10, SO2, and NO2 in Shiraz, Iran in a two-part study from 2008 to 2010.

The year 2020 brought unimaginable challenges in public health, with the confluence of the COVID-19 pandemic and wildfires across the western United States.

Chronic psychological stress appears to accelerate biological aging, and oxidative damage is an important potential mediator of this process.

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was first identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 (1).

Further evidence that new onset asthma can occur from air pollution, even below prevailing air quality standards. It is time the ERS and ATS release a formal statement on the evidence for the link between long-term air pollution and new incident asthma.