Coronavirus

A new study shows that high-frequency medical ultrasound waves can destroy respiratory viruses like coronavirus and influenza without damaging healthy tissue. Utilizing mechanical resonance, the sound waves dismantle the viral envelope, offering a promising physical approach to antiviral therapy.

Researchers monitored over 1,100 hospitalized patients for a year and identified 11 viruses that returned to activity. One of the findings may help in the future to identify patients suffering from long-term symptoms of long COVID.

Two years after attacking him for his refusal to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, commentator Stephen A. Smith apologized to the guard: "It didn't make him stubborn or selfish, but courageous." The commentator, who criticized the guard for missing games for the Brooklyn Nets due to his decision, admitted: "I did him an injustice."

Dr. Anthony Fauci, an American physician and immunologist, refused to testify during a Senate hearing regarding the management of the coronavirus pandemic, as reported today (Wednesday) by the AP news agency. The 85-year-old Fauci was one of the leading members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, as part of his role as head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the...