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- February 5, 2020
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Covid-19 Candidate Vaccines Pass Safety and Efficacy Tests0
- Covid-19, Health & Medicine
- July 23, 2020
Two candidate vaccines (ChAdOx1 and Ad-5-nCoV) for Covid-19 have been shown to be safe and efficacious in humans, according to two studies published this week in The Lancet journal. Both vaccines are based on adenovirus vectors, DNA viruses that act as vehicles to carry SARS-CoV-2 proteins to the body, therefore eliciting a response against an
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Asymptomatic Patients Appear to Have Lung Damage and Low Antibody Levels after SARS-CoV-2 Infection0
- Covid-19
- June 25, 2020
The levels of antibody protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection may not last longer than a few months, reveals an article published last week on Nature Medicine. Of 37 people with a positive test for SARS-CoV-2 but with no clinical symptoms of the disease, 81% tested positive for IgG, an antibody produced 3 to 4 weeks after
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Using Artificial Intelligence to Diagnose COVID190
- Covid-19, Design & Technology
- May 21, 2020
The novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, was first identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 and since then it has emerged as a global pandemic. More than 5 million people have been infected globally across 187 countries and over 320,000 people lost their lives to it (1). Because COVID19 (coronavirus disease) is a highly contagious and potentially
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Nearly Every Recovered Covid-19 Patient Has Antibodies Against the Virus0
- Covid-19, Health & Medicine
- May 14, 2020
Most of the patients who recover from Covid-19 have antibodies against SARS-CoV2, the coronavirus that causes the disease, shows a study published in the pre-print server medXriv (yet to be peer-reviewed). Researchers from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine recruited 1,343 patients who had tested positive or had symptoms for Covid-19 in New York City
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Spain Orders Mandatory Quarantine for Incoming Travellers0
- Covid-19
- May 12, 2020
From May 15, all travellers entering Spain will have to go through a mandatory 14-day quarantine, Spanish government officials have announced. The measure applies to both foreigners and Spanish citizens who return to the country, between May 15 and, at least, May 24, when the “state of emergency” in Spain ends. Exceptions to this rule
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Researchers Clone SARS-CoV2 in One Week0
Cloning the novel SARS-coronavirus (SARS-CoV2) in the laboratory is now more rapid and efficient. A team of researchers from Bern, Switzerland, created a synthetic platform that produced SARS-CoV-2 copies in only one week. The results were published yesterday, as an unedited manuscript, in the scientific journal Nature. The new replication model was made using TAR
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