SARS-CoV-2 Virus – where did it come from and where did it evolve? The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control discusses that a meta-analysis of different estimates of the time to the last common ancestor of the virus indicate that the pandemic...
Can You Go Back to The Gym? Should Gyms Be Re-Opened? An interesting pre-print by the TRAiN study group in Norway investigated SARS-CoV-2 virus transmission and COVID-19 disease attributable to training facilities. They randomised 18 to 64 years old with no...
SARS-CoV-2 Testing, How Frequent and How Specific? An interesting article from a group in Harvard tried to gauge the importance of test sensitivity and frequency, looking at viral spread in a large group of people. They found that weekly surveillance testing,...
Face Masks, What Type Should You Wear? According to Scientific American, the Indiana Centre for Regenerative Medicine and Engineering have developed a material which renders infectious particles harmless when passed by hands to the front of masks. The team have...
COVID-19, Is There Going to be a Second Wave? An editorial by Richard Horton in The Lancet 27 June discusses the spectre of a second wave of COVID-19. Some infectious disease specialists believe that SARS-CoV-2 might be losing virulence. However, some are...
What are the Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Complications of COVID-19? These were evaluated in 153 patients within a UK-wide surveillance study by Varatharaj and others published in The Lancet Psychiatry June 25, 2020. There is increased concern regarding...
