Category: Science
Scientific articles about the coronavirus
UK: Covid-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths by vaccination status for week 5, 2022
The latest vaccine surveillance report by the UK Health and Security Agency giving figures for Covid infections, hospitalizations and deaths by vaccination status for the period up to week 5, 2022. More...
Preprint: Increasing frequency of cryptic SARS-CoV-2 lineages in New York sewers
Here we report detecting increasing frequencies of novel cryptic SARS-CoV-2 lineages not recognized in GISAID’s EpiCoV database. More...
UK ONS: 2% of the British population have Long Covid
An estimated 1.3 million people living in private households in the UK (2.1% of the population) were experiencing self-reported long COVID as of 2 January 2022. More...
Preprint: Omicron a recombination between BA.1 and B.35 lineages
Here, we show that Omicron lineage SARS-CoV-2 is characterized by the feature of chimera. More...
UK government fesses up to hundreds more Covid-19 deaths
The UK has confessed that there have been hundreds more Covid-19 deaths in Britain during the pandemic than they had previously admitted to, and they have added 534 deaths to the UK Covid-19 dashboard after reviewing reinfections. More...
Preprint: SARS-CoV-2 invades the brain and activates an Alzheimers-like program
Here, we show that SARS-CoV-2 invades the brains of five patients with COVID-19 and Alzheimers, autism, frontotemporal dementia or no underlying condition by infecting neurons and other cells in the cortex. More...
Canada: Infants more likely to be hospitalized from Omicron
Omicron cases in infants under one year of age are almost seven times more likely to lead to hospitalizations, Canada’s chief public health officer Dr. More...
Omicron: Unexpected cases of children with convulsions
Convulsions may be a sign of the Omicron variant in children with COVID-19
Two boys aged 3 months and 21 months tested positive for the virus and a 14-year-old boy tested negative, but had a cold and family members who had tested positive. More...
Denmark: BA.2 infection risk higher in vaccinated and booster vaccinated households
SSI: “vaccinated people have a higher risk of becoming infected with BA.2 compared to BA.1”
The study finds an overall secondary attack rate of 39% in BA.2 infected households compared to 29% in BA.1 infected households. More...
Israel: Vaccine passports cancelled for all cases except large gatherings
The Israeli Coronavirus Cabinet on Tuesday afternoon terminated the ‘Green Pass’ system, Israel’s COVID passport equivalent, for all cases except ‘high-risk’ events such as large weddings and gatherings. More...