Category: Science
Scientific articles about the coronavirus
Scotland: Hogmanay New Year’s eve cancelled due to Covid
Edinburgh’s Hogmanay street party has been cancelled off after the Scottish Government confirmed plans for strict caps on numbers at all large events, with the exception of weddings and funerals. More...
37% reduction in sperm count, 60% drop in sperm’s ability to move after Covid infection
Semen samples from 35 men taken within a month of their recovery showed a 60 per cent drop in their sperm’s ability to move and a 37 per cent reduction in sperm count. More...
Germany: 40 percent suffer from Long Covid after infection
Around 40 percent of people infected with the coronavirus have Long Covid-like symptoms – regardless of whether they knew about their infection more than six months ago or not. More...
Britain plays Russian roulette with Covid – 130,000 symptomatic cases and rising
THE UK Covid app ZOE is reporting 129,970 new symptomatic covid cases in the UK today, as the Omicron variant spirals out of control. More...
Will Omicron break the 120-day Sars-CoV-2 global wave cycle?
Will the new Omicron variant break the 120-day global Sars-Cov-2 wave cycle? More...
Netherlands goes into hard lockdown until January 14th 2022
The Netherlands will enter a strict lockdown starting at 5 a.m. More...
Denmark: Omicron patients just as ill as Delta patients
The symptoms in Omicron patients have been the same as in other variants in Denmark. More...
Imperial College: Omicron is NOT milder than Delta
“We find no evidence (for both risk of hospitalisation attendance and symptom status) of Omicron having different severity from Delta, though data on hospitalisations are still very limited… Omicron was associated with a 5.41 fold higher relative risk of reinfection compared with Delta.” More...
Preprint: Evidence for a mouse origin of the Omicron variant
Pre-outbreak Omicron mutations in the spike protein significantly overlap with mutations in mouse-adapted SARS-CoV-2. More...
