Mental Health and COVID-19 An informative editorial in the Lancet published October 10, 2020 fears that the investment in mental health has just not happened. They cite the theme of this year’s World Mental Health Day on October 10 which had increased investment in...
Susceptibility to SARS-Cov-2 Infection Among Children and Adolescents Compared with Adults An interesting review and metanalysis in the Journal of the American Medical Association published by Weiner and others in September 2020 looked at the evidence on the...
SARS-CoV-2 Moderna Vaccine, the mRNA-1273 Vaccine in Older Adults Moderna published their safety and immunogenicity data from elderly patients in the New England Journal of Medicine, 29 September 2020, Anderson and others. They conducted a phase 1, dose...
President Trump has COVID-19, so what are the treatments that he has currently received? Regeneron This is a one shot intravenous drug with a half life of 22 days which he received prior to hospitalisation. The company only announced its trial on 29 September and this...
If You Have Had the Common Cold, are you Protected From COVID-19 An interesting article in Science dated 2 October 2020 by Mateus and others suggested that robust T cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 occur in most individuals with COVID-19 disease. Several...
Susceptibility to SARS-Cov-2 Infection Among Children and Adolescents Compared with Adults An interesting review and metanalysis in the Journal of the American Medical Association published by Weiner and others in September 2020 looked at the evidence on the...