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What face masks are suitable for Coronavirus?
Face Masks, What Type Should You Wear? According to Scientific American, the Indiana Centre for Regenerative Medicine and Engineering have developed a material which renders infectious particles harmless when passed by hands to the front of masks. The team have...
A second wave for COVID-19?
COVID-19, Is There Going to be a Second Wave? An editorial by Richard Horton in The Lancet 27 June discusses the spectre of a second wave of COVID-19. Some infectious disease specialists believe that SARS-CoV-2 might be losing virulence. However, some are...
The Neurological Complications of Coronavirus
What are the Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Complications of COVID-19? These were evaluated in 153 patients within a UK-wide surveillance study by Varatharaj and others published in The Lancet Psychiatry June 25, 2020. There is increased concern regarding...
COVID-19 and Alcohol
Alcohol, COVID-19 and Lockdown Data from the Office for National Statistics has shown that sales in alcohol stores during March increased on a month-on-month volume by 31.4%. Alcohol consumption patterns also altered. According to a survey by the charity Alcohol...
Antibody Response to COVID-19
The antibody response to SARS-CoV-2 in patients with COVID19 An interesting article by Quan-Xin Long and others looked at the antibody response to SARS-CoV-2 in 285 patients with COVID-19. They found that within 19 days following symptom onset, 100% of patients...
Who Shows Signs of Coronavirus
Who shows evidence of past SARS-CoV-2 infection? An interesting article by Silvia Stringhini and others published in The Lancet June 2020 assessed the burden of COVID-19 within a population of Geneva. They found that children between the age of 5 and 9 and those...
Dexamethasone and COVID-19
Advance in Treatment as Confirmed by Boris Johnson for COVID-19 Infection Last Week Dexamethasone This is a cheap, accessible steroid which has been available for many years. The real breakthrough was that the recovery trial undertaken by the University of...
COVID-19 World Population Risk
How much of the World’s population is at an increased risk of severe COVID-19 disease? A study published by Andrew Clark and others in The Lancet tried to answer this question. The risk of severe COVID-19 disease is known to be higher in older individuals and those...
How does Coronavirus enter the body?
How does the SARS-CoV-2 virus enter the human body? Ludovico Cantuti-Castelvetri and others have identified a new possible pathway through which the SARS-CoV-2 enters into the central nervous system. SARS-CoV-2 uses angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 as a host...
How is COVID-19 Spread
What is the dominant route for the spread of Covid-19? Zhang and others published a research article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, PNAS. They analysed the trend and mitigation measures in three epicentres...
