Tag: respiratory
“It’s not just a respiratory virus”: after a Covid-19, sequelae on sleep and mental health
The pandemic has increased people’s mental health problems. If the context is indisputably anxiety-provoking, it would seem that the virus itself could have an impact on our brain and trigger…
Post-Covid respiratory problems associated with routinely undetectable lung abnormalities
Breathless patients after Covid-19, however, show no problem on lung scans. But another more thorough examination revealed a dysfunction in the exchanges between the pulmonary alveoli and the blood. You…
“The Omicron Variant Reproduces Faster in the Respiratory Tract”
Experts determined that Omicron multiplies 70 times faster in the tissues lining the airways compared to the previously dominant variant, Delta. This feature is seen as an element that could…
How does SARS-Cov-2 spread through the respiratory tract?
Airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is now recognized and it has been shown that the cells of the respiratory mucosa are the main targets for binding and penetrating the virus into…