Who shows evidence of past SARS-CoV-2 infection? An interesting article by Silvia Stringhini and others published in The Lancet June 2020 assessed the burden of COVID-19 within a population of Geneva. They found that children between the age of 5 and 9 and those...
Advance in Treatment as Confirmed by Boris Johnson for COVID-19 Infection Last Week Dexamethasone This is a cheap, accessible steroid which has been available for many years. The real breakthrough was that the recovery trial undertaken by the University of...
How much of the World’s population is at an increased risk of severe COVID-19 disease? A study published by Andrew Clark and others in The Lancet tried to answer this question. The risk of severe COVID-19 disease is known to be higher in older individuals and those...
How does the SARS-CoV-2 virus enter the human body? Ludovico Cantuti-Castelvetri and others have identified a new possible pathway through which the SARS-CoV-2 enters into the central nervous system. SARS-CoV-2 uses angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 as a host...
What is the dominant route for the spread of Covid-19? Zhang and others published a research article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, PNAS. They analysed the trend and mitigation measures in three epicentres...
What is the Culprit in the COVID-19 Disease? The Lancet Infectious Disease Journal highlights a comment by Yi and others, which helps to identify a possible route for transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus into the human and its resultant effect. The COVID-19...
