Category: Science
Scientific articles about the coronavirus
UK: Fourth vaccination for over 75’s within weeks
A fourth Covid vaccine dose should be offered to all adults over-75 and the most vulnerable over-12s this spring, the UK’s vaccines advisory body has said. More...
Israel: Finance minister “totally fine” with 1,000 Covid deaths a month
When asked about the over 1,000 who died of Covid in Israel in the past month, Finance minister Avigdor Liberman said, “I am totally fine with it. More...
Preprint: Covid can remain airborne for 30 minutes and travel up to 200 feet
New research estimates that Sars-CoV-2 droplets encased in mucus can remain moist for up to 30 minutes and travel up to about 200 feet. More...
UK Queen tests positive for Covid
The Queen has tested positive for Covid-19, ahead of the expected ending of all coronavirus restrictions in England in the coming days. More...
Austria to drop all coronavirus restrictions
The Austrian government is easing almost all Covid restrictions from the 5th March 2022. More...
Man tests positive for Covid 28 times in the six weeks AFTER his death
The body of a Ukrainian man who died from drowning in Italy tested positive for Covid-19 as many as 28 times in the six weeks after his death. More...
Preprint: Recurrent Covid-19 episodes in HCW tended to be more severe
We describe 33 patients with recurrent COVID-19 and a positive PCR. More...
UK NERVTAG: Long term evolution of SARS-CoV-2, 10 February 2022
UK SAGE NERVTAG have released an update of their long term evolution predictions for SARS-CoV-2 in a paper entitled “Can we predict the limits of SARS-CoV-2 variants and their phenotypic consequences? More...
SARS-CoV-2 in Angola from 23rd September 2019
“Our findings demonstrate that SARS-CoV-2-reactive antibodies were detected in 40 out of 442 specimens, as early as September 23, 2019”
This retrospective study on blood specimens from measles patients collected from 23 September 2019 to 28 February 2020, reported from the 17 provinces of Angola, suggests evidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection months before detection of the virus in Luanda, the epicenter of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Angola. More...
Europe: potential Deltacron recombinants in Denmark, France, Netherlands
Not confirmed yet, but worth flagging, are potential Deltacron recombinants of Delta AY.4 and Omicron BA.1/BA.2 found in Denmark, France and Netherlands. More...