Category: Science
Scientific articles about the coronavirus
Twitter censorship meltdown *7 updates*
For the second time in three months, we find ourselves reporting that Twitter is limiting discourse on its platform by suspending user accounts or adding warnings to tweets that link to genuine scientific research. More...
WHO: BA.2.75 has more efficient replication in lung cells, fusogenicity, pathogenicity
WHO: “Preliminary laboratory-based studies indicate a relative growth advantage of BA.2.75 as compared to BA.2 and BA.5. More...
Zimbabwe: 157 dead in measles outbreak
The Zimbabwe government has invoked the Civil Protection Unit Act to deal with the measles outbreak that has so far claimed 157 lives from complications after spreading across the country. More...
Preprint: Serious Adverse Events of Special Interest Following mRNA Vaccination in Randomized Trials
“The excess risk of serious adverse events of special interest surpassed the risk reduction for COVID-19 hospitalization relative to the placebo group in both Pfizer and Moderna trials.” More...
India: 100% rise in Delhi’s Covid hospitalisations in 14 days
Covid hospitalizations in Delhi have nearly doubled in the last two weeks, and the positivity rate is nearing 20%. More...
Monkeypox: 87% of household samples still contaminated after 15 days
Of the 31 environmental swab samples collected by the CDC from the property of a person infected with monkeypox, 87% were still contaminated with the virus after 15 days. More...
Nigeria: Outbreak of Marburg disease
A Nigerian hospital has notified the hospital community ‘of an outbreak’ of the Marburg virus in Abuja. More...
Monkeypox: Anecdotal evidence of reinfection within three weeks
An anecdotal report from Reddit of someone who may have become reinfected with monkeypox within three weeks of his first infection, although an uncleared persistent infection is also a possibility. More...
Lancet: Evidence of human-to-dog transmission of monkeypox virus
“Here we describe the first case of a dog with confirmed monkeypox virus infection that might have been acquired through human transmission.” More...
Traffic accident victim refused hospital treatment after testing positive for Covid
An ambulance crew in Japan returned an injured man to the scene of a traffic accident and left him there after a hospital refused to accept him because he had tested positive for the coronavirus. More...