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Coronavirus News
Co-infection with 2 distinct SARS-CoV-2 lineages reported in a patient in Portugal
“The patient had co-infection by two SARS-CoV-2 lineages, which were affiliated in distinct clades and diverging by six variants. More...
E484K mutation discovered in COVID-19 variant in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
The new SARS-CoV-2 mutation, E484K, detected in four patients from Jalisco, has some characteristics of its own and differences with the strain identified in Brazil and South Africa, according to the University of Guadalajara. More...
Coronavirus attacks the brain and triggers severe Covid-19 disease in mice
“Our thinking that [Covid-19] is more of a respiratory disease is not necessarily true,” Kumar said. More...
Fauci: people who have had coronavirus should still get 2 vaccine doses
“People who had Covid-19 should still follow the current @FDA guidance, which is two shots either 21 or 28 days apart. More...
Lancet report: “interim analysis of the phase 3 trial of Gam-COVID-Vac Sputnik V showed 91·6% efficacy against COVID-19”
“Between Sept 7 and Nov 24, 2020, 21 977 adults were randomly assigned to the vaccine group (n=16 501) or the placebo group (n=5476). More...
Oxford University: “vaccine effective against major B.1.1.7 ‘Kent’ coronavirus strain circulating in the UK”
“Data from our trials of the ChAdOx1 vaccine in the United Kingdom indicate that the vaccine not only protects against the original pandemic virus, but also protects against the novel variant, B.1.1.7”
The Oxford University researchers who developed the ChAdOx1-nCoV 19 vaccine have found that it remains effective against one of the new variants of the disease. More...
Israel: several fully vaccinated elderly tested positive for COVID-19
“tests at nursing homes, where all residents have received both doses of the vaccine and are considered to be fully protected, indicated several people as positive for coronavirus.” More...
New Israeli drug cured 29 of 30 moderate to serious COVID-19 cases in days
A new coronavirus treatment being developed at Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Medical Center has successfully completed phase 1 trials and appears to have helped numerous moderate-to-serious cases of COVID-19 quickly recover from the disease, the hospital said Friday. More...
SARS-CoV-2 evolution during treatment of chronic infection
“These data reveal strong selection on SARS-CoV-2 during convalescent plasma therapy associated with emergence of viral variants with evidence of reduced susceptibility to neutralising antibodies.” More...
100 UK children a week are being hospitalised with Covid-19 PIMS MISC
Up to 100 UK children a week hospitalised with rare post-Covid disease PIMS (MISC)
75% of children worst affected by paediatric inflammatory multi-system syndrome are BAME
Up to 100 children a week are being hospitalised with a rare disease that can emerge weeks after Covid-19, leaving them in intensive care, doctors have said. More...