The rush to immunise populations against Covid-19 could lead to the rollout of a vaccine that is not very effective and risk worsening the pandemic, leading scientists have said. Experts, members of the WHO’s Solidarity Vaccines Trial Expert Group, which is made up of leading scientists around the world who are advising on the establishment
The study has been done in seven Italian Hospitals and published on The Lancet Respiratory Medicine The study confirms the role of microthrombosis in severe Covid-19, but do not explain which is the pathophysiology of the proteolytic cascades activation. For Dr. Fornasari, REGENHEALTHSOLUTIONS Director, “This study very important study shows that unhinibited proteolytic cascades activation
New research suggests that children can shed SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, even if they never develop symptoms or for long after symptoms have cleared. But many questions remain about the significance of the pediatric population as vectors for this sometimes deadly disease, according to an invited commentary by Children’s National Hospital doctors that accompanies this
Over 1,000 children from Northern Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales, known as ‘COVID Warriors’ have had their antibodies measured in the UK-wide trial called ‘Seroprevalence of SARS-Cov-2 infection in healthy children’. The findings have been published yesterday (Friday 28 August) as a pre-print on the server medRxiv. The study is led by Queen’s University Belfast, in
Study is the basis of a new international clinical trial Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, Mount Sinai researchers were among the first to show that anticoagulation therapy was associated with improved survival among hospitalized COVID-19 patients. But many questions remained—about the size of the potential benefit, and about what dosage of this therapy might be
IDSA and HIVMA call for the immediate reversal of the abrupt revision of the CDC COVID-19 testing guidelines which diminish the importance of testing asymptomatic individuals who were exposed to COVID-19. The revision is concerning, particularly as the United States continues to lead the world in confirmed cases and deaths, with more than 5.8 million
A new Covid-19 prediction model makes another compelling case for wearing masks and cloth face coverings. If practically everyone in America wears masks while out in public, it could prevent tens of thousands of Covid-19 infections and deaths by the fall, according to researchers at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). “It is hard
A study of nearly 800 coronavirus genomes, conducted by no less than 54 researchers at the Broad Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and several other institutions in the state, has found that viruses carrying the conference’s characteristic mutation infected hundreds of people in the Boston area, as well as victims from
Infection in General Population Mirrors Pediatric Prevalence, UCSF Study Shows Source UCSF As schools across the country continue to wrestle with configurations of online and in-classroom learning, a new study from UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals shows that public data and a simple equation may be all that is required to estimate the number of infected
Source NIH “Masks save lives” isn’t just sound advice, it’s a scientific fact. Wearing one in public can help to slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2. Wear a mask outside home, doesn’t necessarily protect myself, but protect others. If by chance I’ve been exposed to the virus and am currently incubating it, I wouldn’t want to
