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...
Covid-19 and the Easing of Restrictions. How can we Learn from Countries in Asia, Pacific and Europe? An interesting article published on health policy in The Lancet September 24, 2020 by Han and others looks at this in great detail. Many countries have...
COVID and Eye Glasses; Should one Wear Glasses in order to PreventCOVID-19 Infection? An interesting article in the Journal of American Medical Associations Ophthalmology report by Xang and others published September 16 looked at the association between daily wearing...
