Category: Science
Scientific articles about the coronavirus
Two Israelis reinfected with South African variant B1351 N501V2 after recovery from coronavirus
The Israeli Health Ministry said Sunday that the the South African strain B.1351 N501Y.V2 More...
WHO mission to Wuhan finds possible signs of wider original coronavirus outbreak in 2019
Investigators from the World Health Organization (WHO) looking into the origins of coronavirus in China have discovered signs the outbreak was much wider in Wuhan in December 2019 than previously thought, and are urgently seeking access to hundreds of thousands of blood samples from the city that China has not so far let them examine. More...
Israel: “There is a very disturbing increase in serious cases of COVID-19 among young people”
There is a very disturbing increase in serious cases of COVID-19 among young people, according to a report released Sunday [14th February 2021] by the Coronavirus Knowledge and Information Center. More...
Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine: cases of high blood pressure under close surveillance
“A signal that must be watched. ” Thus the ANSM describes the occurrence of 73 cases of high blood pressure (hypertension) after injection of the vaccine Comirnaty Pfizer-Biontech in its point information from February 11 on the surveillance of vaccines against Covid-19. More...
Women are twice as likely to develop Long Covid compared to men, but only up to about 60yrs old
Long COVID also seems to affect younger patients as demonstrated by the study conducted at the A. More...
The Global coronavirus case fatality rate CFR is now at 2.21% and rising
The global case fatality rate, which fell consistently from May 1st 2020 until January 18th 2021, is now rising steadily and currently stands at 2.21%
The global Covid-19 case rate (those who have tested positive for sars-cov-2 by testing) has fallen recently, but the case fatality rate (those who have died of Covid-19 following a confirmed test) has not fallen in step with the case reduction. More...
Cases of Long Covid could be as high as 20% in the UK, immunologist warns
The number of patients reporting symptoms of Covid-19 weeks after becoming ill could be as high as 20%, an immunologist said, as he warned it could place an additional burden on the NHS.
NERVTAG: increased disease severity in people infected with coronavirus variant B.1.1.7
NERVTAG: “Here we report updated and additional analyses, which together strengthen the earlier finding of increased disease severity in people infected with VOC B.1.1.7 compared to other virus variants.” More...
California coronavirus variant CAL.20C accounts for nearly half of COVID-19 cases in Southern California and about a 1/3 of cases in the state
The CAL.20C variant accounts for nearly half of COVID-19 cases in Southern California and about a third of cases in the state based on an analysis of viral genomes posted to a global database called GISAID. More...
B.1.1.7 Kent coronavirus variant now at 28% in Denmark
The UK B.1.1.7 variant was detected in 28.5 percent of the samples in Denmark sequenced up to Friday 12th February 2021 from the first week of February 2021. More...