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Is the heart affected by Coronavirus? This is looked at by Valentina Puntmann and others in the Journal of American Medical Association Cardiology published July 22, 2020. They pose the question “What are the cardiovascular effects in unselected patients with recent...

Social Distancing and Animal Life Lobsters, birds and primates use quarantine to avoid infections. An interesting article published in the Scientific American August 2020 by Hawley and Buck. Despite how unnatural social distancing may feel to the human population, it...

COVID-19 and the Heart Is it affected? This is looked at by Valentina Puntmann and others in the Journal of American Medical Association Cardiology published July 22, 2020. They pose the question “What are the cardiovascular effects in unselected patients with recent...

Does Hydroxychloroquine, as President Trump has indicated, actually improve outcome in mild to moderate COVID-19 disease? Finally, a trial which looks at treatment for COVID-19 in mild to moderate COVID-19 patients.  It was published in the New England Journal of...

Can Animals Catch SARS-CoV-2 and get COVID-19 Infection? An interesting article published by Patterson and others as a pre-print looked at 817 companion animals living in Northern Italy who were sampled at the same time there was frequent human infection....

Why does the SARS-CoV-2 virus seem to affect Black and South Asian Ethnic Groups more in the UK? An interesting correspondence by Marion Cook in The Lancet July 17 suggests that this could be related to sickle cell and thalassaemia. Sickle cell anaemia is an inherited...

COVID 19 in Children and How it Occurs or Does Not Occur in Families An interesting article published in Paediatrics by Klara, M. and others looked at the dynamics of family infection. It is known that children have been less affected than adults in terms of severity...

Diabetes and COVID-19 Disease; Why do Diabetics have Worse Outcomes? This is carefully looked at in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology by Matteo Apicella and others and they suggest that the reason for worse prognosis in people with diabetes is likely to be...

SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine An interesting update from Professor Justin Stebbing provids his own insight into the current vaccine progress.  Professor Stebbing feels that there is a 75% probability that there will be enough vaccine for the entire United States population...

Coronavirus Disease Exposure and Spread from Nightclubs An interesting article in the emerging infectious diseases Journal of the CDC showed that 246 cases of COVID-19 were linked to nightclubs in Seoul, South Korea.  During the April 30 to May 5 bank holiday,...