The Fear of COVID-19 for Those Patients Living with Obesity This is reviewed by Le Brocq and others in The Lancet published July 9. Data from France and The United Kingdom show a disproportionately high prevalence of obesity in patients with COVID-19 admitted to...
The Immune Responses and Immunity to SARS-CoV-2 Immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 involve both the cell-mediated immunity and antibody production and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control discussed the following. Cell-Mediated Immune Response T-cell...
A Few Statistics Comparing SARS-CoV-2 with SARS-CoV and Influenza Pandemics An interesting personal view by Professor Eskild Petersen and others in The Lancet published July 3 has some interesting characteristics when comparing the four different viral...
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,...
