A recent article published in the British Medical Journal dated 7 October 2020 looked at this issue. Rapid diagnostic tests are integral to the government’s Moonshot plan to carry out up to 10 million COVID-19 tests a day by early 2021. Jacqui Wise published her...
Viral Load Dynamics, Duration of Viral Shedding, Infectiousness of the Various SARS Viruses Looking at SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV, and MERS-CoV. How Infectious Are They? This is a systematic review and meta-analysis published in The Lancet November 19 by Cevik and others....
At last a study published in bioRxiv by Dan and others as a preprint looks at this important topic. Understanding immune memory to SARS-CoV-2 is critical for improving diagnostics and vaccines and assessing the likely future course of the pandemic. The author’s...
The CDC in the United States looked at the risk assessment and management of COVID-19 among travellers arriving at designated US airports between January 17 and September 13, 2020. This was an article published on November 13 by Phillip Dollard and others. Research...
Pfizer-BioNTech announced last week that the efficacy portion of their COVID-19 vaccine trial had been completed. The vaccine prevented 95% of cases of the disease. Professor Stebbings in his daily report evaluated results and suggested that they looked a bit better...
An article published November 12 in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine by Monk and others looked at the efficacy and safety of inhaled nebulised interferon beta-1a for the treatment of patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19. They did a randomised, double blind,...
