Severe COVID-19 cases can be predicted by new test
Covid-19: One dose of vaccine cuts risk of passing on infection by as much as 50%, research shows
28 April 2021Researchers develop 20-minute saliva-based COVID-19 test
28 April 2021Severe COVID-19 cases can be predicted by new test
As of April 2021, more than 3 million people worldwide have died of COVID-19. Early in the pandemic, researchers developed accurate diagnostic tests and identified health conditions that correlated with worse outcomes. However, a clinical predictor of who faces the highest risk of being hospitalized, put on a ventilator or dying from the disease has remained largely out of reach.
