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...
Alcohol, COVID-19 and Lockdown Data from the Office for National Statistics has shown that sales in alcohol stores during March increased on a month-on-month volume by 31.4%. Alcohol consumption patterns also altered. According to a survey by the charity Alcohol...
The antibody response to SARS-CoV-2 in patients with COVID19 An interesting article by Quan-Xin Long and others looked at the antibody response to SARS-CoV-2 in 285 patients with COVID-19. They found that within 19 days following symptom onset, 100% of patients...
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...
