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COVID-19 Outbreaks and Environmental Factors in the Transmission Rate
An interesting abstract by Poirer in Nature looks at this in detail. Influenza studies have shown that influenza viruses survive longer on surfaces or in droplets in cold and dry air, thus increasing the likelihood of subsequent transmission. A...
Herd Immunity Related to COVID-19
A letter published in The Lancet October 22 by Graham Medley looks at the term which he feels has become layered with political interpretations, label strategies, and feels that they are not clearly defined. It is hoped that at some time shortly there will be a...
LONG COVID , What Is It and Who Does It Affect?
The British Medical Journal published 14 October 2020 looked into this. They reviewed the National Institute for Health research paper published on 15 October 2020. COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation in March 2020. It has had...
Combining Rapid PCR and Antibody Tests Can Improve COVID-19 Diagnosis
An interesting article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association October 13 by Jennifer Abbasi suggested that nose and throat swab polymerase chain reaction testing could miss up to 50% of COVID-19 cases. This is due in part because the...
Evaluation of the RNA Vaccine Against SARS-CoV-2 in Non-Human Primates
An interesting study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, October 15 2020 by Anderson and others evaluated the Moderna mRNA-1273 vaccine. MethodNon-human primates received 10 or 100 mcg of the mRNA-1273 vaccine encoding the profusion stabilised spike...
Efficacy of the Vaccine Candidate BBIBP/CorV in Humans
An interesting article published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases October 15, 2020 by Xia and others did a randomised double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 1/2 trial in Shangqui City, Liangyuan District Centre for Disease Control and Prevention in Henan Province,...
BBIBP/CorV inactivated vaccine for COVID
Efficacy of the Vaccine Candidate BBIBP/CorV in Humans An interesting article published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases October 15, 2020 by Xia and others did a randomised double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 1/2 trial in Shangqui City, Liangyuan District...
The RNA Vaccine Against SARS-CoV-2
Evaluation of the RNA Vaccine Against SARS-CoV-2 in Non-Human Primates An interesting study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, October 15 2020 by Anderson and others evaluated theModerna mRNA-1273 vaccine. Method Non-human primates received 10 or...
The use of PCR and Antibody in COVID diagnosis
Combining Rapid PCR and Antibody Tests Can Improve COVID-19 Diagnosis An interesting article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association October 13 by Jennifer Abbasi suggested that nose and throat swab polymerase chain reaction testing could...
Facemasks, Testing, Lockdowns with COVID
Facemasks, Testing, Lockdowns and the Association with Country Wide COVID Mortality An interesting preprint updated August 2020 by Leffler and others looked at determining the sources of variation between countries in per capita mortality from COVID-19. They...
