Category: Healthcare
France: BA.5 now dominant, Covid cases up by more than 50% in one week
BA.5 at 59%, sharp increase in Covid cases in all regions and age groups, hospital admission rate rising. More...
Germany: Covid cases up by 38% in one week
The nationwide 7-day incidence increased in week 25 compared to the previous week by almost 155,000 cases (+38%). More...
WHO: “Several children already infected” with Monkeypox
Just two days after deciding that the international Monkeypox outbreak wasn’t sufficiently serious enough to warrant designating it a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, the WHO are already backtracking. More...
UK: Over 3 million symptomatic cases of Covid-19
The UK ZOE Covid app is reporting that, for the second time in just over three months, more than three million people in the UK have symptomatic Covid. More...
Long Covid: Microscopic abnormality in the way oxygen moves from the lungs into the blood vessels
A team of researchers based at five centres across Ontario have zeroed in on a microscopic abnormality in the way oxygen moves from the lungs and into the blood vessels of long COVID patients in their trial. More...
Nature: Neurotoxic amyloidogenic peptides in the proteome of SARS-COV2
Following the hypothesis that some neurological symptoms of COVID-19 may also follow an amyloid etiology we identiļ¬ed two peptides from the SARSCoV-2 proteome that self-assemble into amyloid assemblies. More...
Preprint: BA.2.12.1, BA.4, and BA.5 substantially escape neutralizing antibodies
These data show that the BA.2.12.1, BA.4, and BA.5 subvariants substantially escape neutralizing antibodies induced by both vaccination and infection. More...
Germany: BA.5 now dominant with 50% of sequences
RKI: “The proportion of the omicron subline BA.5 was 50% in week 23, it has become the dominant variant. More...
Preprint: Monkeypox has far more mutations than expected
“Researchers found the current Monkeypox strain diverges from the original strain by 50 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), and several mutations made the virus more transmissible.” More...
France: Nosocomial SARS-CoV-2 infections, March 2020 to June 2022
“The origin of the nosocomial grouped case is mainly a patient (57%).” More...