So even though cases overall grew, hospitalizations and deaths were down — and that makes sense because younger people are more likely to experience mild or symptom-free infections.
The new Covid-19 case surge in Europe, explained|Julia Belluz|September 17, 2020|Vox
That could increase the infection risk in shared spaces including offices, restaurants, and movie theaters.
Wildfire smoke and COVID-19 are a one-two punch for indoor air quality across the U.S.|dzanemorris|September 17, 2020|Fortune
The underlying level of infection remains high, however, and the virus is still passing freely from person to person in much of the country.
Courts may reconsider temporary coronavirus restrictions as pandemic drags on|Anne Gearan, Karin Brulliard|September 16, 2020|Washington Post
In other words, it’s hard to predict how many people might die of widespread infection.
The problem with Trump’s ‘herd mentality’ line isn’t the verbal flub. It’s the mass death.|Philip Bump|September 16, 2020|Washington Post
Some feared coming to work while others walked out of plants to protest the lack of infection control measures.
Emails Show the Meatpacking Industry Drafted an Executive Order to Keep Plants Open|by Michael Grabell and Bernice Yeung|September 14, 2020|ProPublica
Four weeks after the injections, all 20 of the participants had developed the antibodies needed to stave off the infection.
The Race for the Ebola Vaccine|Abby Haglage|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Testing methods can now detect HIV within ten days of infection.
The Outrageous Celibacy Requirement for Gay Blood Donors|Jay Michaelson|November 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A “simple bout of flu” is incapable of mutating into an Ebola infection.
The Sham, Scaremongering Guide to Ebola|Abby Haglage|November 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It builds up anti-bodies to fight off the infection in the blood.
Blood Is Ebola’s Weapon and Weakness|Abby Haglage|October 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“Convalescent blood transfusions and plasma transfusions may help people who are sick survive the infection,” he says.
Blood Is Ebola’s Weapon and Weakness|Abby Haglage|October 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Outlying abscesses and sinuses are usually the result of infection of the tendon sheaths in the neighbourhood.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition.|Alexander Miles
Young Stoddard lost no animal by the infection,—that is, no one died on his hands.
Cattle and Their Diseases|Robert Jennings
Here is the grand tower, built between 1506 and 1530, a noble design, and carried out without any infection of foreign detail.
Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine|Edward A. Freeman
When infection of the blood takes place from the intestines the carbuncles may be absent.
Special Report on Diseases of Cattle|U.S. Department of Agriculture
The only doctor in the whole group refused to come to them, because he feared to take back the infection to the other islands.
The Mermaid|Lily Dougall
British Dictionary definitions for infection
infection
/ (ɪnˈfɛkʃən) /
noun
invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms
the resulting condition in the tissues
an infectious disease
the act of infecting or state of being infected
an agent or influence that infects
persuasion or corruption, as by ideas, perverse influences, etc
Invasion by and multiplication of pathogenic microorganisms in a bodily part or tissue, which may produce subsequent tissue injury and progress to overt disease through a variety of cellular or toxic mechanisms.
An instance of being infected.
An agent or a contaminated substance responsible for one's becoming infected.
The pathological state resulting from having been infected.
The invasion of the body of a human or an animal by a pathogen such as a bacterium, fungus, or virus. Infections can be localized, as in pharyngitis, or widespread as in sepsis, and are often accompanied by fever and an increased number of white blood cells. Individuals with immunodeficiency syndromes are predisposed to certain infections. See also infectious diseaseopportunistic infection.