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Jim1348
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 13, 2009 Post Count: 1066 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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New COVID-19 variant defeats plasma treatment, may reduce vaccine efficacy
The new COVID-19 variant identified in South Africa can evade the antibodies that attack it in treatments using blood plasma from previously recovered patients, and may reduce the efficacy of the current line of vaccines, scientists said on Wednesday. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-cor...ne-efficacy-idUSKBN29P2HJ |
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3295 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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New COVID-19 variant defeats plasma treatment, may reduce vaccine efficacy The new COVID-19 variant identified in South Africa can evade the antibodies that attack it in treatments using blood plasma from previously recovered patients, and may reduce the efficacy of the current line of vaccines, scientists said on Wednesday. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-cor...ne-efficacy-idUSKBN29P2HJ Biorxiv link for those interested: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.18.427166v1 AMD Ryzen 5 1600AF 6C/12T 3.2 GHz - 85W AMD Ryzen 5 2500U 4C/8T 2.0 GHz - 28W AMD Ryzen 7 7730U 8C/16T 3.0 GHz |
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From BBC News today Jan 22nd :
----------------------------------------Coronavirus: UK variant 'may be more deadly' Menace from Germany's Merckel to close the frontier push Europe to order tests at borders of each member state.  |
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Jim1348
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Scientists liken long Covid symptoms to those of Ebola survivors
Scientists are studying the similarities between long Covid and ongoing symptoms experienced by survivors of Ebola and Chikungunya virus in the hope of devising new treatments to improve their health. Like patients with long Covid, survivors of these other, relatively new human viruses, often experience lingering symptoms which can make it difficult to work or function in everyday life. “The experience of Chikungunya and Ebola should be sounding alarm bells, because although we’re talking about very different virus families, and very diverse infections, they seem to do quite similar things. There’s a desperate need for some immunology to understand what’s going on,” he said. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jan/...-those-of-ebola-survivors |
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catsdomain
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Landorin
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Vitamin D, A and K might help in preventing Covid-19 infection. Cholesterol increases Covid-19 infectivity:
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catsdomain
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The Mystery Of India's Plummeting COVID-19 Cases:
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Jim1348
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How the Search for Covid-19 Treatments Faltered While Vaccines Sped Ahead
Nearly a year into the coronavirus pandemic, as thousands of patients are dying every day in the United States and widespread vaccination is still months away, doctors have precious few drugs to fight the virus. A handful of therapies — remdesivir, monoclonal antibodies and the steroid dexamethasone — have improved the care of Covid patients, putting doctors in a better position than they were when the virus surged last spring. But these drugs are not cure-alls and they’re not for everyone, and efforts to repurpose other drugs, or discover new ones, have not had much success. The government poured $18.5 billion into vaccines, a strategy that resulted in at least five effective products at record-shattering speed. But its investment in drugs was far smaller, about $8.2 billion, most of which went to just a few candidates, such as monoclonal antibodies. Studies of other drugs were poorly organized. The result was that many promising drugs that could stop the disease early, called antivirals, were neglected. Their trials have stalled, either because researchers couldn’t find enough funding or enough patients to participate. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/30/health/covid-drugs-antivirals.html You will need a subscription to read the rest. |
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Mike.Gibson
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55917793?xtor=ES-211-[41821_PANUK_DIV_05_NCA_facemasks_RET_DEF]-20210204-[bbcnews_newvaccinereadybyautumntotacklemutations_newscoronavirus]
New Oxford/AZ vaccine ready for the autumn for new variants. |
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tvdsluis
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https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/coronavirus/16...ed-in-israel-96-effective
Interesting/True or too early to tell? |
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