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Coronavirus and Anti-Inflammatories
COVID-19 and Anti-inflammatories Initially, due to a French diplomat, it was suggested that anti-inflammatories such as Ibuprofen or Voltarol should not be taken by those patients who might be at risk of developing COVID-19 or being subject to coronavirus...
COVID-19 and Blood Type
Blood Group and Severity of COVID-19 It has been found that having type A blood is linked to a 50% increase in the likelihood that a patient would need oxygen or have to go on a ventilator. This was from a pre-print and not peer reviewed article by Ellinghouse...
Coronavirus Vaccines – Where are we?
COVID-19 Vaccine Development, Where Are We? This is neatly discussed by Nelson Lean and Allison McGeer in a comment article in The Lancet dated May 28, 2020. Clearly, developing a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine is a global priority. Researchers in China,...
Coronavirus and Eating Disorders
Food insecurity. Will this be the sting in the tail following the COVID-19 pandemic? An interesting editorial in The Lancet Global Health discusses the situation in poorer countries following COVID-19 infection. UNICEF published a discussion documented on...
Clotting Disorders and COVID-19
COVID-19 coagulopathy, the evolving story of the clotting disorders associated with COVID-19 COVID-19 has affected over 4 million people worldwide, spreading across the continents. The substantial mortality in at-risk groups is noted and also the multiple...
The Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine
COVID-19 Vaccines - Have we got the capacity to develop a vaccine at rapid speed? An interesting article by Nicole Lurie and others in the New England Journal of Medicine May 21, 2020 looks at the possibility of developing a COVID-19 vaccine at pandemic speed....
Will COVID bring Solidarity?
After COVID-19 is an Alternative Society Possible? This comes from an interesting editorial by Richard Horton published May 30 in The Lancet. He asks how do we make sense of this pandemic? He quotes the first interpretations from Slavoj Žižek a prolific...
Lockdown – Which is Safer a Coffee or the Gym?
Lockdown Easing - Is It Safer to Visit a Coffee Shop or a Gym? The New York times looked into this and using anonymised mobile phone location data from April 2019 they measured how crowded businesses get. They found: Fast-food restaurants tended to be small and...
Coronavirus and Sneezing
COVID-19 and a Sneeze How far can human sneeze droplets be ejected? This was measured by Lydia Bourouiba and written in the New England Journal of Medicine in August 2016. She videoed the human sneeze and measured the emission of a sneeze cloud produced by...
COVID-19 and Vitamin D
Vitamin D and COVID-19 As we are now just coming out of the lockdown and have been banished to our homes. What might this lack of sunlight affect? An article in The Lancet looked at whether being deficient in vitamin D resulted in a poorer outcome if...
