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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2021-05-19

Researchers identify protein “signature” of severe COVID-19: interactions among myeloid, epithelial and T cells drive tissue damage

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have identified the protein “signature” of severe COVID-19, which they describe in a new study published in Cell Reports Medicine. “We were interested in asking whether we could identify mechanisms that might be contributing to death in COVID-19,” says MGH infectious disease expert Marcia Goldberg, MD, who studies interactions between

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2021-05-14

Mucormycosis, a new Covid complication, is worsening India’s pandemia

Mucormycosis: hyphae of the fungus Mucor, from the paranasal sinus of a patient with diabetes mellitus. Public health officials report a rare black fungus infection, called mucormycosis, which is increasingly seen in vulnerable patients, including those with COVID-19 disease. India faces a global health crisis as the number of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2021-05-08

New research reveals why some patients may test positive for COVID-19 long after recovery

In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare workers analyzing test results began noticing something strange: patients who had already recovered from COVID-19 would sometimes inexplicably test positive on a PCR test weeks or even months later.  Although people can catch COVID-19 for a second time, this did not appear to be the case

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2021-05-07

Fully vaccinated healthcare workers in Israel were up to 30 times less likely to be infected

Pfizer and BioNTech’s coronavirus reduces the risk of getting sick from COVID-19 by five- to 30-fold for fully immunized people, two new studies show.  In one report, just 0.4 percent of healthcare workers in Israel who received both shots of the COVID-19 immunization later tested positive compared to 7.2 percent of unvaccinated employees. This means healthcare workers who

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2021-05-07

Norwegian-Danish registry study with findings on venous thrombosis after AstraZeneca vaccination

Norwegian and Danish researchers published a register study in BMJ of over 281,000 people who have received the AstraZeneca vaccine. – The study confirms previous findings from OUS and internationally. The registry study finds 11 additional cases of venous thrombosis among 100,000 vaccinated.   The article that follows people who have received the AstraZeneca vaccine in

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PIER MARIA FORNASARI
2021-05-06

New Cell Atlas of COVID Lungs Reveals Why SARS-CoV-2 Is Deadly and Different

A new study is drawing the most detailed picture yet of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the lung, revealing mechanisms that result in lethal COVID-19, and may explain long-term complications and show how COVID-19 differs from other infectious diseases. Led by researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, the study found

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