Category: Science
Scientific articles about the coronavirus
Significant abnormalities found in the eyes of some patients with severe COVID-19
Researchers using MRI have found significant abnormalities in the eyes of some people with severe COVID-19. More...
UK: firebreak lockdown may be needed after letting virus run rampant all summer
“The UK Government is planning October ‘firebreak’ restrictions if hospital admissions stay high”. More...
California: 112,000 vaccine breakthrough cases, 3,000 hospitalized, 306 deaths
The latest vaccine breakthrough figures for California make sobering reading, showing the extent of the vaccine breakthrough crisis now engulfing the state. More...
BMJ: Allowing mass infection of children is reckless
“Children have suffered significant harms from Covid-19. In just the past two months there have been over 2,300 hospitalisations of under 18s in England. More...
Scotland: 70% of Covid deaths and 58% of hospitalizations are fully vaccinated
Grim news from Scotland where fresh Covid outbreaks are causing record infection numbers and vaccine breakthrough cases are now in the majority for both Covid hospitalizations and deaths. More...
USA: Illinois vaccine breakthroughs – 1,371 hospitalized, 288 deaths
Illinois State Coronavirus Dashboard has been recently updated showing the latest figures for vaccine breakthrough hospitalizations and deaths. More...
Taiwan: first case of Mu variant found is a vaccine breakthrough case
Taiwan announced its first confirmed case of the Mu variant of COVID-19, a Taiwanese woman who had received two Pfizer vaccine doses in the U.S. More...
Sweden: infected mink found on farm in Skara – “A kind never seen before in Sweden”
A case of SARS-CoV-2 infection in mink has been discovered in connection with the ongoing mandatory disease surveillance that was initiated this summer as a result of an EU decision and which covers all mink farms in the country.
USA: Texas sees coinfections with flu and Covid-19
The Nueces County Public Health District in Texas announced that the County has started seeing people who not only have COVID-19, but the flu as well.
Generation and subsequent transmission of recombinant Sars-CoV-2 viruses within the community
A recent study found evidence for multiple independent recombination events of Sars-CoV-2 viruses sampled from late 2020 to early 2021 in the UK. More...