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An interesting report by Talha Burki published in The Lancet February 6, 2021 discusses this topic.   A new consortium is trying to find out whether the variants of SARS-CoV-2 which are emerging will have different clinical effects.  All viruses mutate but the...

An interesting report published in The Lancet 6 February 2020 by John Zarocostas reports on the investigation.   With new infections of COVID-19 still spreading rapidly, and health systems stretched to their limits, public Interest is now focused on the WHO...

An interesting preprint in medRxiv by Tardif and others published on 26th January 2021 reports new medical research which has yet to be evaluated.  Evidence suggests the role of an inflammatory storm in COVID-19 patients.  Colchicine is an orally administered,...

An interesting preprint in medRxiv published January 2021 looked at this question.  Factors such as non-uniform definitions of mortality, uncertainty in diseases prevalence, and bias sampling complicates the quantification of fatality during an epidemic. ...

An interesting article published in the Journal of M1 by Guha and others January 13, 2021.   Face coverings constitute an important strategy for containing pandemics. Infection  from airborne respiratory viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 can occur in at least...

An interesting study by Johansson and others published in the Journal of American  Medical Association January 7, 2021 explored this question.   This study assessed the relative amount of transmission from presymptomatic, never  symptomatic and...

An interesting article published in medRxiv January 2020 looked at the evidence as a preprint to determine the rates and predictors of uptake of formal and informal mental health support.  The COVID-19 pandemic has put a great strain on people's mental...

An interesting article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association  looked at this important subject. SARS-CoV-2 is readily transmitted person to person.  Optimal control of COVID-19 depends on direct resources and health messaging to ...

An interesting article published by Bastos and others in the Annals of Internal Medicine  investigated this issue.   Nasopharyngeal swabs are the primary sampling method used for the detection of  SARS-CoV-2, but they are better performed by a...

The Daily Telegraph provided a very intuitive synopsis on the Oxford, Moderna and  Pfizer vaccines. Presently, the largest mass vaccination programme in British history  is underway, with the target of millions of vaccinations being administered by spring...

They considered all two current vaccinations and these were their findings.  Pfizer-BioNTechThe committee reviewed published and unpublished phase one, two and three safety  and efficacy data for the Pfizer BioNTech mRNA vaccine. They found that the vaccine  appeared...

SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 disease first emerged as a cause of severe respiratory  infection in Wuhan. The first two cases in the United Kingdom were seen in late  January 2020. In March 2020, The World Health Organization declared a SARS-CoV 2...

The new variant of SARS-CoV-2 in UK causing a surge of COVID-19. An interesting  article published January 4 in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine Journal by Tony Kirby  looked at the effects of lockdowns and the new variant.  For most of November 2020...

An interesting article published in emerging infectious diseases volume 27, number 1, January 2021 by Galle and others investigated this issue. They investigated SARS-CoV-2 specific antibodies and T-cell responses against SARS-CoV-2 in 11 SARS-CoV-2 serodiscordant...