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COVID-19 spreads less commonlythrough contact with contaminated surfaces, and rarely between people and animals. | Can animals spread COVID-19 to people? | Likewise, the S protein nucleotide sequence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus isolated in domestic animals and humans is identical, and the replication of the SARS-CoV-2 in cats is efficient. | Supports |
COVID-19 spreads less commonlythrough contact with contaminated surfaces, and rarely between people and animals. | Can animals spread COVID-19 to people? | Although animal-to-animal transmission has been shown to be possible, there is no evidence of animal-to-human transmission. | Supports |
COVID-19 spreads less commonlythrough contact with contaminated surfaces, and rarely between people and animals. | Can animals spread COVID-19 to people? | Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)--the virus that causes coronavirus disease (COVID-19)--has been detected in domestic dogs and cats, raising concerns of transmission from, to, or between these animals. There is currently no indication that feline- or canine-to-human transmission can occur, though there is rising evidence of the reverse. | Supports |
Which is More Dangerous: Flu or COVID-19? Flu is more dangerous than covid-19 | How dangerous is COVID-19? | Given the scope and speed of the spread, the COVID-19 pandemic is not only complex but dangerous. | Refutes |
Which is More Dangerous: Flu or COVID-19? Flu is more dangerous than covid-19 | How dangerous is COVID-19? | Covid-19 is a disease caused by a new coronavirus presenting a variability of flu-like symptoms including fever, cough, myalgia and fatigue; in severe cases, patients develop pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, sepsis and septic shock, that can result in their death. | Refutes |
Which is More Dangerous: Flu or COVID-19? Flu is more dangerous than covid-19 | How dangerous is COVID-19? | Complicated objective factors such as the long-term existence of source of infection, difficulty in completely blocking the transmission route and a large susceptible population suggested that the COVID-19 pandemic might stay with us for long term. Therefore, we should be ready for a tough and long-term battle against the COVID-19 epidemic. | Refutes |
Which is More Dangerous: Flu or COVID-19? Flu is more dangerous than covid-19 | How dangerous is COVID-19? | During quarantine due to the COVID-19, home risks to become a very dangerous place for victims of domestic violence. | Refutes |
If you are immunocompromised, the best way to prevent COVID-19 is to avoid being exposed to this virus. | will SARS-CoV2 infected people develop immunity? | Based on animal experiments, already acquired data on other coronavirus types and plausibility assumptions, it can be assumed that seroconverted patients have an immunity of limited duration and only a very low risk of reinfection. | Neutral |
If you are immunocompromised, the best way to prevent COVID-19 is to avoid being exposed to this virus. | will SARS-CoV2 infected people develop immunity? | Distinguishing pre-existing and de novo antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 will be critical for serology, seroprevalence and vaccine studies, as well as for our understanding of susceptibility to and natural course of SARS-CoV-2 infection. | Neutral |
If you are immunocompromised, the best way to prevent COVID-19 is to avoid being exposed to this virus. | will SARS-CoV2 infected people develop immunity? | we discovered evidence that SARS-CoV-2, along with related coronaviruses, used mutations to evade attack from the human immune system. Overall, we present an immunological resource for SARS-CoV-2 that could promote both therapeutic development and mechanistic research. | Neutral |
If you are immunocompromised, the best way to prevent COVID-19 is to avoid being exposed to this virus. | will SARS-CoV2 infected people develop immunity? | According to this hypothesis vaccine formulations (tetanus, diphtheria, Bordetella pertussis) could be re-administrate after the first contact with Covid-19, better before the development of respiratory severe illness and of course before full-blown ARDS (Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome). The CD4+ memory exploiting could help immune system to recall immunity of already know antigens against coronaviruses, avoiding or limiting lung crash until virus specific immunity develops and making it faster and prolonged. | Neutral |
Not only does COVID-19 spread by contact with contaminated surfaces, but new research finds that weather can influence how long the virus survives. | how does the coronavirus respond to changes in the weather | Being a novel pandemic coronavirus version, it might be ongoing during summer conditions associated with higher air temperatures, low relative humidity and precipitation levels. | Refutes |
Not only does COVID-19 spread by contact with contaminated surfaces, but new research finds that weather can influence how long the virus survives. | how does the coronavirus respond to changes in the weather | These results provide evidence for the relationship between several weather variables and the spread of COVID-19. However, the (conservatively) estimated relationships are not strong enough to seasonally control the epidemic in most locations. | Neutral |
Not only does COVID-19 spread by contact with contaminated surfaces, but new research finds that weather can influence how long the virus survives. | how does the coronavirus respond to changes in the weather | Results indicated that temperatures had a negative linear relationship with the number of confirmed cases. | Neutral |
Not only does COVID-19 spread by contact with contaminated surfaces, but new research finds that weather can influence how long the virus survives. | how does the coronavirus respond to changes in the weather | Temperature is the most influential parameter that reduces the growth at the rate of 13-16 cases/day with a 1{degrees}C rise in temperature | Supports |
Cloth Masks Protect You From Getting the Coronavirus | Can face masks protect me from the coronavirus disease? | Our results indicate that surgical face masks could prevent transmission of human coronaviruses and influenza viruses from symptomatic individuals. | Refutes |
Cloth Masks Protect You From Getting the Coronavirus | Can face masks protect me from the coronavirus disease? | It would therefore be reasonable to suggest that consistent widespread use of face masks in the community could prevent further spread of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). | Refutes |
Cloth Masks Protect You From Getting the Coronavirus | Can face masks protect me from the coronavirus disease? | We find that the critical mask adherence is 5 per 100 when 80% wear face masks. | Refutes |
Cloth Masks Protect You From Getting the Coronavirus | Can face masks protect me from the coronavirus disease? | Wearing medical masks or N95 masks (namely N95 respirators) can slow the virus spread and reduce the infection risk. | Refutes |
social distancing does help prevent coronavirus (COVID-19 | has social distancing had an impact on slowing the spread of COVID-19? | The Greek authorities implemented the strong social distancing measures within the first few weeks after the first confirmed case of the virus to curtail the COVID-19 growth rate. | Neutral |
social distancing does help prevent coronavirus (COVID-19 | has social distancing had an impact on slowing the spread of COVID-19? | counties where the policies have been imposed have effectively increased social distancing and have seen slowing the spread of COVID-19. | Supports |
social distancing does help prevent coronavirus (COVID-19 | has social distancing had an impact on slowing the spread of COVID-19? | Our models predict these strict social distancing measures caused a 79% and 61% reduction in the daily cases of COVID-19 across Australia and New Zealand respectively. | Supports |
social distancing does help prevent coronavirus (COVID-19 | has social distancing had an impact on slowing the spread of COVID-19? | social distancing is associated with a statistically-significant reduction in the doubling rate for all but three states. | Supports |
there is no evidence that COVID-19 can spread to people from pet fur | Can animals spread COVID-19 to people? | Although animal-to-animal transmission has been shown to be possible, there is no evidence of animal-to-human transmission. | Supports |
there is no evidence that COVID-19 can spread to people from pet fur | Can animals spread COVID-19 to people? | Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is now a pandemic threat. This virus is supposed to be spread by human to human transmission. | Supports |
there is no evidence that COVID-19 can spread to people from pet fur | Can animals spread COVID-19 to people? | Although coronavirus infections in pets are known to be predominantly related to the gastrointestinal tract, it has been observed that there are human-to-animal transmissions in this outbreak and some animals have similar symptoms to humans. | Supports |
there is no evidence that COVID-19 can spread to people from pet fur | Can animals spread COVID-19 to people? | Cellular angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) is the receptor of SARS-CoV-2 which is identical or similar in different species of animals such as pigs, ferrets, cats, orangutans, monkeys, and humans. Moreover, a recent study predicted that dog might be secondary host during the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 from bat to human. Therefore, there is a possibility of spreading SARS-CoV-2 through domestic pets. | Refutes |
Vitamin D strengthens innate immunity and prevents overactive immune responses | Does Vitamin D impact COVID-19 prevention and treatment? | A principal defence against uncontrolled inflammation, and against viral infection in general, is provided by T regulatory lymphocytes (Tregs). Treg levels have been reported to be low in many COVID-19 patients and can be increased by vitamin D supplementation. Low vitamin D levels have been associated with an increase in inflammatory cytokines and a significantly increased risk of pneumonia and viral upper respiratory tract infections. Vitamin D deficiency is associated with an increase in thrombotic episodes, which are frequently observed in COVID-19. Vitamin D deficiency has been found to occur more frequently in patients with obesity and diabetes. These conditions are reported to carry a higher mortality in COVID-19. If vitamin D does in fact reduce the severity of COVID-19 in regard to pneumonia/ARDS, inflammation, inflammatory cytokines and thrombosis, it is our opinion that supplements would offer a relatively easy option to decrease the impact of the pandemic. | Neutral |
Vitamin D strengthens innate immunity and prevents overactive immune responses | Does Vitamin D impact COVID-19 prevention and treatment? | Vitamin D deficiency that is not sufficiently treated is associated with COVID-19 risk. | Neutral |
Vitamin D strengthens innate immunity and prevents overactive immune responses | Does Vitamin D impact COVID-19 prevention and treatment? | testing positive for COVID-19 was associated with increasing age(RR(age<50)=1.05,p<0.021;RR(age[]50)=1.02,p<0.064)), non-white race(RR=2.54,p<0.01) and being likely vitamin D deficient (deficient/treatment-not-increased:RR=1.77,p<0.02) as compared to likely vitamin D sufficient(not-deficient/treatment-not-decreased), with predicted COVID-19 rates in the vitamin D deficient group of 21.6%(95%CI[14.0%-29.2%] ) versus 12.2%(95%CI[8.9%-15.4%]) in the vitamin D sufficient group. | Neutral |
Vitamin D strengthens innate immunity and prevents overactive immune responses | Does Vitamin D impact COVID-19 prevention and treatment? | In Middle East, the recovery rate (r= 0.267) and mortality rate (r= -0.217) showed a medium correlation. | Neutral |
Most respiratory diseases, including COVID-19, do not tend to last on surfaces | touching a contaminated surface will not make you sick | Most viruses from the respiratory tract, such as coronaviruses, influenza, SARS-CoV, or rhinovirus, can persist on surfaces for a few days. | Refutes |
Most respiratory diseases, including COVID-19, do not tend to last on surfaces | touching a contaminated surface will not make you sick | It was found that 83% and 77% of the bedside surfaces of MRSA-positive and MRSA-negative patients respectively were contaminated with staphylococci at 08:00 hours, and that the staphylococcal concentrations increased by 80% at 1200 h over a 4-hour period with routine ward and clinical activities. | Refutes |
Most respiratory diseases, including COVID-19, do not tend to last on surfaces | touching a contaminated surface will not make you sick | Susceptible persons who contacted these contaminated surfaces may transfer the pathogens to their mucous membranes via hands, leading to a risk of respiratory infection. | Neutral |
Most respiratory diseases, including COVID-19, do not tend to last on surfaces | touching a contaminated surface will not make you sick | Inefficient human-to-human transmission of zoonotic strains may initially limit the spread of transmission, but an infection may be contracted by touching contaminated surfaces. | Refutes |
COVID-19: Surgical masks may help, but not as first line | Does a surgical mask help avoid COVID-19? | Surgical mask partition for challenged index or nave hamsters significantly reduced transmission to 25% (6/24, P=0.018). Surgical mask partition for challenged index hamsters significantly reduced transmission to only 16.7% (2/12, P=0.019) of exposed nave hamsters. | Supports |
COVID-19: Surgical masks may help, but not as first line | Does a surgical mask help avoid COVID-19? | To determine the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission by aerosols, to provide evidence on the rational use of masks, and to discuss additional measures important for the protection of healthcare workers from COVID-19. | Neutral |
COVID-19: Surgical masks may help, but not as first line | Does a surgical mask help avoid COVID-19? | Surgeons and perioperative teams at risk for contracting COVID-19 should use appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE), including N95 respirators or powered air-purifying respirators (PAPRs), when risk of viral spread is high. | Supports |
COVID-19: Surgical masks may help, but not as first line | Does a surgical mask help avoid COVID-19? | Evidence on mask effectiveness for respiratory infection prevention is stronger in health care than community settings. | Supports |
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic may be stressful for people. | has social distancing had an impact on slowing the spread of COVID-19? | Our models predict these strict social distancing measures caused a 79% and 61% reduction in the daily cases of COVID-19 across Australia and New Zealand respectively. This provides both evidence and impetus for governments considering similar measures in response to COVID-19 and other pandemics. | Neutral |
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic may be stressful for people. | has social distancing had an impact on slowing the spread of COVID-19? | stronger social distancing, e.g., cutting 75% of social ties, can reduce the outbreak by 75% for the C isolation, by 33% for the D isolation, and by 87% for the (C+D) isolation strategy. | Neutral |
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic may be stressful for people. | has social distancing had an impact on slowing the spread of COVID-19? | social distancing is associated with a statistically-significant reduction in the doubling rate for all but three states. | Neutral |
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic may be stressful for people. | has social distancing had an impact on slowing the spread of COVID-19? | Discussion: The combined social distancing measures implemented by the Greek authorities within the first few weeks after the first confirmed case of the virus reduced the COVID-19 growth rate. | Neutral |
Most hospitalized COVID-19 patients have neurological symptoms | Which are the first symptoms of the coronavirus disease? | A number of COVIN-19 cases with conjunctivitis or conjunctivitis as the first symptom have been observed in our clinical work. | Neutral |
Most hospitalized COVID-19 patients have neurological symptoms | Which are the first symptoms of the coronavirus disease? | The patient was seriously ill, who felt that he suffered from fever, fatigue, cough, and expectoration and sought medical treatment, with a history of contact with Wuhan | Refutes |
Most hospitalized COVID-19 patients have neurological symptoms | Which are the first symptoms of the coronavirus disease? | The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID19) affects principally the respiratory tract but recent studies described that COVID19 could present a broader clinical spectrum from the absence of any symptoms to heart (1), digestive (2) or EarNoseThroat (including anosmia and ageusia) (3) manifestations. Here we report two cases of peculiar skin manifestation. | Neutral |
Most hospitalized COVID-19 patients have neurological symptoms | Which are the first symptoms of the coronavirus disease? | We present a case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) with an initial medical presentation of keratoconjunctivitis, the first such reported case in North America. The patient's primary symptom was a red eye with watery discharge, though she did have mild respiratory symptoms, without fever. | Refutes |
Coronaviruses that cause less severe diseases, such as the common cold, do spread more slowly among people during the summer. | how does the coronavirus respond to changes in the weather | We show that the delay between exposure and detection of infection complicates the estimation of weather impact on COVID-19 transmission, potentially explaining significant variability in results to-date | Neutral |
Coronaviruses that cause less severe diseases, such as the common cold, do spread more slowly among people during the summer. | how does the coronavirus respond to changes in the weather | Each 1 C rise of temperature was associated with a 4.8951% (t = 2.29, p = 0.0226) decrease in the number of daily cumulative confirmed cases of COVID-19 | Supports |
Coronaviruses that cause less severe diseases, such as the common cold, do spread more slowly among people during the summer. | how does the coronavirus respond to changes in the weather | COVID-19, due to its regular flu-like symptoms, is also expected to show similar seasonality and subside as the global temperatures rise in the northern hemisphere with the onset of spring | Supports |
Coronaviruses that cause less severe diseases, such as the common cold, do spread more slowly among people during the summer. | how does the coronavirus respond to changes in the weather | Correcting for that distributed delay and offering conservative estimates, we find a negative relationship between temperatures above 25 degrees Celsius and estimated reproduction number ([R]), with each degree Celsius associated with a 3.1% (95% CI, 1.5% to 4.8%) reduction in [R]. Higher levels of relative humidity strengthen the negative effect of temperature above 25 degrees. | Supports |
The coronavirus was not engineered in a lab | what is the origin of COVID-19 | Zhou et al (1) mentioned that 'Direct contact with intermediate host animals or consumption of wild animals was suspected to be the main route of SARSCoV2 transmission. | Supports |
The coronavirus was not engineered in a lab | what is the origin of COVID-19 | This provides evidences strongly supporting scientific hypotheses that bats and pangolins are probable hosts for the COVID-19 virus. At the whole genome analysis level, our findings also indicate that bats are more likely the hosts for the COVID-19 virus than pangolins. | Supports |
The coronavirus was not engineered in a lab | what is the origin of COVID-19 | A novel coronavirus (severe acute respiratory syndrome-CoV-2) that initially originated from Wuhan, China, in December 2019 has already caused a pandemic. | Neutral |
The coronavirus was not engineered in a lab | what is the origin of COVID-19 | This paper investigates the COVID-19 virus origin by using artificial intelligence (AI) and raw genomic sequences of the virus. | Neutral |
smokers less likely to catch COVID-19 | Can smoking help in preventing COVID-19? | Data indicate CVIR demonstrates significant trends across cannabis use intensity quintiles and with relaxed cannabis legislation. Recent cannabis use is independently predictive of CVIR in bivariate and multivariable adjusted models and intensity of use is interactively significant. | Refutes |
smokers less likely to catch COVID-19 | Can smoking help in preventing COVID-19? | At this time there is no clear evidence that smoking is protective against COVID-19, so the established recommendations to avoid smoking should be emphasized. | Refutes |
smokers less likely to catch COVID-19 | Can smoking help in preventing COVID-19? | Epidemiological and laboratory research seems to suggest that smoking and perhaps nicotine alone could reduce the severity of COVID-19. | Supports |
smokers less likely to catch COVID-19 | Can smoking help in preventing COVID-19? | Our findings support a causal effect of elevated BMI and smoking on risk of sepsis and severe covid-19. | Refutes |
Sunlight and Hot Temperatures Do Not Prevent the Coronavirus | Does heat prevent COVID-19? | In some circumstances, thermal inactivation at 56 C has been recommended to inactivate Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) before NAT. | Refutes |
Sunlight and Hot Temperatures Do Not Prevent the Coronavirus | Does heat prevent COVID-19? | It is suggested that Chinese medicine of clearing heat and removing toxin should be used to prevent the uninfected people from COVID-19, and intervene in the early stage of the disease and control the development of it to be severe by inhibiting the cytokine storm. | Supports |
Sunlight and Hot Temperatures Do Not Prevent the Coronavirus | Does heat prevent COVID-19? | Since many coronaviruses are sensitive to heat, heating inactivation of samples at 56C prior to testing is considered a possible method to reduce the risk of transmission, but the effect of heating on the measurement of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies is still unclear. | Supports |
Sunlight and Hot Temperatures Do Not Prevent the Coronavirus | Does heat prevent COVID-19? | Virus test results revealed that 99.8% of the aerosolized SARS-CoV-2 was caught and killed by a single pass through a novel Ni-foam-based filter when heated up to 200 C. Additionally, the same filter was also used to catch and kill 99.9% of Bacillus anthracis, an airborne spore. This study paves the way for preventing transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and other highly infectious airborne agents in closed environments. | Supports |
Patients with sufficient levels of vitamin D are less likely to experience complications and die from COVID-19 | Does Vitamin D impact COVID-19 prevention and treatment? | A significant negative correlation (p=0.033) has been observed between mean vitamin D levels and COVID-19 cases per one million population in European countries. | Supports |
Patients with sufficient levels of vitamin D are less likely to experience complications and die from COVID-19 | Does Vitamin D impact COVID-19 prevention and treatment? | testing positive for COVID-19 was associated with increasing age(RR(age<50)=1.05,p<0.021;RR(age[]50)=1.02,p<0.064)), non-white race(RR=2.54,p<0.01) and being likely vitamin D deficient (deficient/treatment-not-increased:RR=1.77,p<0.02) as compared to likely vitamin D sufficient(not-deficient/treatment-not-decreased), with predicted COVID-19 rates in the vitamin D deficient group of 21.6%(95%CI[14.0%-29.2%] ) versus 12.2%(95%CI[8.9%-15.4%]) in the vitamin D sufficient group. | Supports |
Patients with sufficient levels of vitamin D are less likely to experience complications and die from COVID-19 | Does Vitamin D impact COVID-19 prevention and treatment? | a small reverse correlation between mortality rate and vitamin D status was observed throughout the globe (r= -0.177). In Asia, a medium direct correlation was observed for recovery rate (r= 0.317) and a significant reveres correlation for mortality rate (r= -0.700) with vitamin D status in such patients. | Refutes |
Patients with sufficient levels of vitamin D are less likely to experience complications and die from COVID-19 | Does Vitamin D impact COVID-19 prevention and treatment? | A principal defence against uncontrolled inflammation, and against viral infection in general, is provided by T regulatory lymphocytes (Tregs). Treg levels have been reported to be low in many COVID-19 patients and can be increased by vitamin D supplementation. Low vitamin D levels have been associated with an increase in inflammatory cytokines and a significantly increased risk of pneumonia and viral upper respiratory tract infections. Vitamin D deficiency is associated with an increase in thrombotic episodes, which are frequently observed in COVID-19. Vitamin D deficiency has been found to occur more frequently in patients with obesity and diabetes. These conditions are reported to carry a higher mortality in COVID-19. If vitamin D does in fact reduce the severity of COVID-19 in regard to pneumonia/ARDS, inflammation, inflammatory cytokines and thrombosis, it is our opinion that supplements would offer a relatively easy option to decrease the impact of the pandemic. | Supports |
Because the virus can be spread easily, many have resorted wearing face masks to protect themselves, as the virus is transmissible through human contact and exposure to respiratory droplets from an infected person. | Can face masks protect me from the coronavirus disease? | Our results indicate that surgical face masks could prevent transmission of human coronaviruses and influenza viruses from symptomatic individuals. | Supports |
Because the virus can be spread easily, many have resorted wearing face masks to protect themselves, as the virus is transmissible through human contact and exposure to respiratory droplets from an infected person. | Can face masks protect me from the coronavirus disease? | We identified seasonal human coronaviruses, influenza viruses and rhinoviruses in exhaled breath and coughs of children and adults with acute respiratory illness. | Neutral |
Because the virus can be spread easily, many have resorted wearing face masks to protect themselves, as the virus is transmissible through human contact and exposure to respiratory droplets from an infected person. | Can face masks protect me from the coronavirus disease? | We find that the critical mask adherence is 5 per 100 when 80% wear face masks. | Supports |
Because the virus can be spread easily, many have resorted wearing face masks to protect themselves, as the virus is transmissible through human contact and exposure to respiratory droplets from an infected person. | Can face masks protect me from the coronavirus disease? | We also demonstrated that three brands of medical masks blocked over 99% viruses in aerosols. The avian coronavirus was completely inactivated after being steamed for 5 minutes. | Supports |
5G uses higher frequencies than 4G, which are dangerous and caused covid-19 | Can 5G technology cause COVID-19? | 32.2% (n=75) denounced the conspiracy theory | Refutes |
5G uses higher frequencies than 4G, which are dangerous and caused covid-19 | Can 5G technology cause COVID-19? | Findings revealed that belief in 5G COVID-19 conspiracy theories was positively correlated with state anger, which in turn, was associated with a greater justification of real-life and hypothetical violence in response to an alleged link between 5G mobile technology and COVID-19, alongside a greater intent to engage in similar behaviours in the future. | Refutes |
5G uses higher frequencies than 4G, which are dangerous and caused covid-19 | Can 5G technology cause COVID-19? | Amongst them, a popular theory has linked 5G to the spread of COVID-19, leading to misinformation and the burning of 5G towers in the United Kingdom. | Refutes |
5G uses higher frequencies than 4G, which are dangerous and caused covid-19 | Can 5G technology cause COVID-19? | Content analysis revealed that, of 233 sample tweets, 34.8% (n=81) contained views that 5G and COVID-19 were linked | Supports |
Many diseases, such as the flu, are seasonal, with cases spiking when the weather is cool and dry. | how does the coronavirus respond to changes in the weather | These results provide evidence for the relationship between several weather variables and the spread of COVID-19. However, the (conservatively) estimated relationships are not strong enough to seasonally control the epidemic in most locations. | Neutral |
Many diseases, such as the flu, are seasonal, with cases spiking when the weather is cool and dry. | how does the coronavirus respond to changes in the weather | Preliminary observations from our team and others suggest that temperature and climatological factors could influence the spread of this novel coronavirus | Supports |
Many diseases, such as the flu, are seasonal, with cases spiking when the weather is cool and dry. | how does the coronavirus respond to changes in the weather | The current study focuses on the relationship between environmental parameters and the growth rate of COVID-19. The statistical analysis suggests that the temperature changes retarded the growth rate and found that -6.28C and +14.51C temperature is the favorable range for COVID-19 growth. | Supports |
Many diseases, such as the flu, are seasonal, with cases spiking when the weather is cool and dry. | how does the coronavirus respond to changes in the weather | COVID-19, due to its regular flu-like symptoms, is also expected to show similar seasonality and subside as the global temperatures rise in the northern hemisphere with the onset of spring | Supports |
If you continue to smoke, you also have a greater risk for respiratory infections like colds, flu and also covid-19. | Can smoking help in preventing COVID-19? | Our findings support a causal effect of elevated BMI and smoking on risk of sepsis and severe covid-19. | Supports |
If you continue to smoke, you also have a greater risk for respiratory infections like colds, flu and also covid-19. | Can smoking help in preventing COVID-19? | Higher genetically proxied BMI and lifetime smoking score were associated with increased risk of sepsis in both UK Biobank (BMI: odds ratio 1.38 per standard deviation increase, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.27 to 1.51 | Supports |
If you continue to smoke, you also have a greater risk for respiratory infections like colds, flu and also covid-19. | Can smoking help in preventing COVID-19? | At this time there is no clear evidence that smoking is protective against COVID-19, so the established recommendations to avoid smoking should be emphasized. | Supports |
If you continue to smoke, you also have a greater risk for respiratory infections like colds, flu and also covid-19. | Can smoking help in preventing COVID-19? | Cannabis thus joins tobacco as a SARS2-CoV-2 risk factor. | Supports |
Coronavirus can harm your body even if you're asymptomatic | will SARS-CoV2 infected people develop immunity? | Knowledge of the molecular mechanisms of viral cycles and immunity is an important prerequisite for the development of vaccination strategies and development of effective drugs. | Neutral |
Coronavirus can harm your body even if you're asymptomatic | will SARS-CoV2 infected people develop immunity? | The number of these epitopes and the prevalence of the common coronaviruses suggest that a large part of the world population has some degree of specific immunity against SARS-CoV-2 already, even without having been infected by that virus. | Neutral |
Coronavirus can harm your body even if you're asymptomatic | will SARS-CoV2 infected people develop immunity? | we discovered evidence that SARS-CoV-2, along with related coronaviruses, used mutations to evade attack from the human immune system. Overall, we present an immunological resource for SARS-CoV-2 that could promote both therapeutic development and mechanistic research. | Neutral |
Coronavirus can harm your body even if you're asymptomatic | will SARS-CoV2 infected people develop immunity? | we discovered evidence that SARS-CoV-2, along with related coronaviruses, used mutations to evade attack from the human immune system. Overall, we present an immunological resource for SARS-CoV-2 that could promote both therapeutic development and mechanistic research. | Neutral |
The coronavirus made by human in a laboratory | what is the origin of COVID-19 | This paper investigates the COVID-19 virus origin by using artificial intelligence (AI) and raw genomic sequences of the virus. | Neutral |
The coronavirus made by human in a laboratory | what is the origin of COVID-19 | A novel coronavirus (severe acute respiratory syndrome-CoV-2) that initially originated from Wuhan, China, in December 2019 has already caused a pandemic. | Neutral |
The coronavirus made by human in a laboratory | what is the origin of COVID-19 | This provides evidences strongly supporting scientific hypotheses that bats and pangolins are probable hosts for the COVID-19 virus. At the whole genome analysis level, our findings also indicate that bats are more likely the hosts for the COVID-19 virus than pangolins. | Refutes |
The coronavirus made by human in a laboratory | what is the origin of COVID-19 | Recent research results suggest that bats or pangolins might be the original hosts for the virus based on comparative studies using its genomic sequences. | Refutes |
cats and dogs can get the coronavirus but are unlikely to get sick. | Can animals spread COVID-19? | Although a few pets presented many clinical signs indicative for a coronavirus infection, no animal tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 by RT-PCR and no antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 were detectable in their blood using an immunoprecipitation assay. | Refutes |
cats and dogs can get the coronavirus but are unlikely to get sick. | Can animals spread COVID-19? | Cellular angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) is the receptor of SARS-CoV-2 which is identical or similar in different species of animals such as pigs, ferrets, cats, orangutans, monkeys, and humans. Moreover, a recent study predicted that dog might be secondary host during the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 from bat to human. Therefore, there is a possibility of spreading SARS-CoV-2 through domestic pets. | Supports |
cats and dogs can get the coronavirus but are unlikely to get sick. | Can animals spread COVID-19? | Little information on the SARS-CoV-2 virus in animals is available to date. | Neutral |
cats and dogs can get the coronavirus but are unlikely to get sick. | Can animals spread COVID-19? | There is currently no indication that feline- or canine-to-human transmission can occur, though there is rising evidence of the reverse. | Supports |
People may take acetaminophen to ease the symptoms of cold and flu. | Are Tylenol, Advil and Motrin effective and safe to take for COVID-19 symptoms? | Currently, it is not possible to discuss the efficacy and safety of a drug in the treatment of COVID-19, as most studies have just begun. | Neutral |
People may take acetaminophen to ease the symptoms of cold and flu. | Are Tylenol, Advil and Motrin effective and safe to take for COVID-19 symptoms? | Surrogate points are usually evaluated, such as: clinical recovery, symptom-based disease relief (fever, cough, diarrhea, myalgia, shortness of breath), lack of progression of shortness of breath, rate of artificial ventilation, rate of admission to the intensive care unit, etc. | Neutral |
People may take acetaminophen to ease the symptoms of cold and flu. | Are Tylenol, Advil and Motrin effective and safe to take for COVID-19 symptoms? | There are currently no approved medications or vaccines which have been claimed to be effective in COVID-19 prevention or treatment. | Neutral |
People may take acetaminophen to ease the symptoms of cold and flu. | Are Tylenol, Advil and Motrin effective and safe to take for COVID-19 symptoms? | To date, clinical evidence and guidelines based on reliable data and randomized clinical trials for the treatment of COVID-19 are lacking In the absence of definitive management protocols, many treatments for COVID-19 are currently being evaluated and tested worldwide | Neutral |
Different variants of the theory exist. Some assume that not the coronavirus but 5G radiation is the real cause of COVID-19 | Can 5G technology cause COVID-19? | Findings revealed that belief in 5G COVID-19 conspiracy theories was positively correlated with state anger, which in turn, was associated with a greater justification of real-life and hypothetical violence in response to an alleged link between 5G mobile technology and COVID-19, alongside a greater intent to engage in similar behaviours in the future. | Refutes |
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