How effective is it? According to a press release by Pfizer itself there was 100% efficacy against COVID-19 amongst those aged 12-15 years old in the United States without a prior history of infection. 18 cases of COVID-19 were observed in the placebo group and none...
The Scientific American looks at a few intriguing highlights. Children under 12 are now being tested by Pfizer with its COVID-19 vaccine. Moderna has also started COVID-19 vaccine studies in children under 12. Both companies have been testing their...
The Independent newspaper reviewed this and suggested that researchers at MIT favour that their Trojan horse delivery system will activate a strong immune response in the cells lining the airways to attack the virus as soon as it lands. The team have...
A comment by Peeling and Olliaro published March 25th in The Lancet Infectious Diseases suggests that scaling up testing in tandem with appropriate public health measures and vaccine rollout might effectively contribute to all our lives returning to some level of...
An interesting study by Kiang and others in the Lancet Infectious Diseases published March 22nd reviewed this question. Routine viral testing strategies for SARS-CoV-2 infection might facilitate safe airline travel during the COVID-19 pandemic and mitigate...
An interesting preprint by Smyth and others in medRxiv suggested that waste-water based epidemiology may provide an alternative and complimentary approach for monitoring communities for the novel variants. Given that SARS-CoV-2 can infect the cells of the...
