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I have been monitoring the predictions for Maryland along with the actual data reported for Maryland for COVID-19. I have focused my attention on deaths and hospitalizations, because most other data are so incomplete or inaccurate that I don’t consider them reliable. What I have seen is encouraging and suggests that the steps Governor Hogan … Read more
Acetaminophen may be a better fever reducer than ibuprofen for people with COVID-19
Translations: Russian (перевод) | Spanish (Español) | Portuguese (Portugues) For those thinking that COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, is not something to worry about, I want to encourage all of you to implement social distancing. If (or when), this virus begins to spread rapidly through the population in the US, the medical … Read more
The microbes that live in the vagina constitute to the vaginal microbiome (or microbiota). New research from the lab of Jacques Ravel at the University of Maryland shows that Chlamydia infection is associated with a different composition of the vaginal microbiome compared with the microbiome of healthy patients. Additionally, the vaginal microbiome of the patients … Read more
