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American Coronavirus News
Preprint: Beta-amyloid deposits found in brains of young Covid patients
This report describes a relatively young (< 60 y/o) COVID patient without known clinical evidence of dementia who at autopsy had large numbers of thioflavin-negative, immunoreactive β-amyloid deposits in her neocortex. More...
Animal vaccines made with self-spreading viruses
Self-spreading virus vaccines for animals are being researched in Europe and the US. More...
Lancet: 18 million dead from the Sars-Cov-2 pandemic
Although reported COVID-19 deaths between Jan 1, 2020, and Dec 31, 2021, totalled 5·94 million worldwide, we estimate that 18·2 million people died worldwide because of the COVID-19 pandemic (as measured by excess mortality) over that period. More...
USA: National Covid-19 Preparedness Plan, issued March 2022
The US has recently issued a National Covid-19 Preparedness Plan. More...
Covid-19: Six million deaths recorded in just over two years *1 PREDICTION*
More than six million deaths have been recorded in the Covid-19 pandemic that started just over two years ago. More...
Preprint: Highly divergent lineage of SARS-CoV-2 in deer with potential deer-to-human transmission
We identified a new and highly divergent lineage of SARS-CoV-2. More...
Canada: Trudeau abandons the state of emergency over Covid protests
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday revoked emergency powers used to dislodge weeks-long trucker-led protests in Ottawa and blockades of border crossings to the United States, as he declared the crisis over. More...
Preprint: MSH3 omohlogy and potential recombination link to SARS-CoV-2 furin cleavage site
“A BLAST search revealed that a 19 nucleotide portion of the SARS.Cov2 More...
Is the global Sars-CoV-2 decline already petering out? *4 UPDATES & 1 PREDICTION*
Is the Omicron decline already petering out? There’s not much to go on yet, a few stutters in the world cases chart, some countries starting to see new surges, but it all looks vaguely familiar. More...
WHO: BA.2 to remain classified as Omicron
Based on available data of transmission, severity, reinfection, diagnostics, therapeutics and impacts of vaccines, the group reinforced that the BA.2 sublineage should continue to be considered a variant of concern and that it should remain classified as Omicron. More...