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Thread: Interesting News Articles About OPN1 - COVID-19 Novel Coronavirus |
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Jim1348
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Interesting/True or too early to tell? I think the Israelis are taking the practical approach of trying it out in a hospital, and if it cures the patients, it gets a go. Other countries tend to do interminable trials with control groups and iterations ad infinitum. It makes for nice academic publications though (peer reviewed of course). |
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Jim Slade
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Jim Slade
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Variant-proof vaccines - invest now for the next pandemic
----------------------------------------COVID's evolution signals the importance of rational vaccine-design based on broadly neutralizing antibodies. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00340-4  [Edit 1 times, last edit by Jim Slade at Feb 9, 2021 4:55:02 AM] |
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Jim1348
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Could a Single Vaccine Work Against All Coronaviruses?
Dr. Modjarrad is one of many scientists who for years have been calling for a different kind of vaccine: one that could work against all coronaviruses. Those calls went largely ignored until Covid-19 demonstrated just how disastrous coronaviruses can be. Now researchers are starting to develop prototypes of a so-called pancoronavirus vaccine, with some promising, if early, results from experiments on animals. Dr. Eric Topol, a professor of molecular medicine at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, thinks scientists should join together in another large-scale vaccine-creation project immediately. “We have to get a real work force to accelerate this, so we can have it this year,” he said. Dr. Topol and Dennis Burton, a Scripps immunologist, called for this project on broad coronavirus vaccines on Monday in the journal Nature. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/health/universal-coronavirus-vaccine.html |
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robertmiles
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A single vaccine should work against all coronaviruses if there is a place on the surface of each of them that is the same for each coronavirus and does something required to produce more of that coronavirus.
I've seen an article saying that there it a place that is the same on each coronavirus. which suggests that a coronavirus with a mutation of that place tend not to spread very well. This was not at a site that tends to keep articles very long, so I did not save a link to that article. It still looks like a good idea to make future vaccines and treatments attack that place. |
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robertmiles
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AstraZeneca Vaccines Dramatically Slows Down Coronavirus Transmission, Study Shows
https://www.thedailybeast.com/astrazeneca-vac...sion-study-shows?ref=home |
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Jim1348
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Another new coronavirus variant seen in the UK
Scientists have identified another new variant of coronavirus in the UK with some potentially troubling mutations. B.1.525 appears similar to the South African variant which prompted door-to-door tests in areas where it has been found https://www.bbc.com/news/health-56082573 |
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A discovery to block virus reproduction in humans
----------------------------------------A grass well kown there on traditional medecine may have more properties to block reproduction of Covid 19 in humans. see my post here the link for french readers: https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/guadeloupe/cov...e-932647.html#xtor=EPR-1-[NL_1%C3%A8re]-20210212-[info-bouton1]&pid=726375-1571700058-46cfb36b  |
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Jim1348
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California's coronavirus strain looks increasingly dangerous: 'The devil is already here'
A coronavirus variant that emerged in mid-2020 and surged to become the dominant strain in California not only spreads more readily than its predecessors, but also evades antibodies generated by COVID-19 vaccines or prior infection and is associated with severe illness and death, researchers said. https://news.yahoo.com/californias-coronaviru...creasingly-130055544.html |
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Jim Slade
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Audio Interview: The Real World Effectiveness of Covid-19 Vaccination
In this audio interview conducted on February 23, 2021, the editors of The New England Journal of Medicine discuss a new study from Israel that assesses the effectiveness of large-scale vaccination against SARS-CoV2. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2103272?query=featured_home |
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