Diabetes and COVID-19 Disease; Why do Diabetics have Worse Outcomes? This is carefully looked at in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology by Matteo Apicella and others and they suggest that the reason for worse prognosis in people with diabetes is likely to be...
SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine An interesting update from Professor Justin Stebbing provids his own insight into the current vaccine progress. Professor Stebbing feels that there is a 75% probability that there will be enough vaccine for the entire United States population...
Coronavirus Disease Exposure and Spread from Nightclubs An interesting article in the emerging infectious diseases Journal of the CDC showed that 246 cases of COVID-19 were linked to nightclubs in Seoul, South Korea. During the April 30 to May 5 bank holiday,...
Diarrhoea as a Feature of COVID-19 Disease A study in China published as a letter in the BMJ suggests that the most common symptoms in patients infected by SARS-CoV-2 are fever and cough. They suggested that the incidence of other clinical features was often...
The Antibody Response and SARS-CoV-2 Infection, How Long does it Last? A preprint published by Jeffrey Seow and other suggests that the antibody response to SARS-CoV-2 can be detected in most infected individuals 10 to 15 days following the onset of COVID-19...
What is the Actual Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in any population and country? An interesting study published in The Lancet by Marina Pollán, Beatriz Pérez-Gómez and others performed a nationwide population-based study to estimate the seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2...
