Modern nursing homes safer in pandemic; virus level in nose, throat may help guide treatment

FILE PHOTO: A Radiologist comforts patient Doreen Mount before having an X-ray in the X-ray department at The Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital in East Lancashire, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Blackburn, Britain, May 14, 2020. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/Poo

(Reuters) - The following is a brief roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus.

Open https://graphics.reuters.com/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/yxmvjqywprz/index.html for a Reuters graphic on vaccines and treatments in development.