BY DAN ROBITZSKI / APRIL 21 2020 New research suggests that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, could have already mutated into more than 30 separate strains. The study found that different strains can generate vastly different levels of viral load as others, the South China Morning Post reports, making them far more dangerous. One...
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COVID-19: First Data Confirm Neurologic Symptoms Common
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. COVID-19 is strongly associated with neurologic manifestations, including acute cerebrovascular diseases, impaired consciousness, and skeletal muscle injury, new research shows. As previously reported by Medscape Medical News, small case and anecdotal reports suggest possible neurologic symptoms of COVID-19, but this is...
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COVID-19 DEATHS WON’T PEAK IN MOST STATES FOR WEEKS
Paramedic Patricia Rodriguez fills out reports on a laptop after a 12-hour shift on April 6, 2020 in Yonkers, New York. (Credit: John Moore/Getty Images) SHARE THIS ARTICLE Facebook Twitter Email You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. TAGS COVID-19 DEATHS PANDEMICS PREDICTION STATES UNITED STATES UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF...
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Artificial ‘candy canes’ block viruses
By: L. HARTMANN, M. SCHELHAAS Viruses are part of the human experience throughout our lives. They cause lots of different illnesses with the current coronavirus pandemic as just one example. While a vaccine does provide effective protection from viral infections, vaccines are only available for a select number of viruses. This is why antiviral drugs...
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Slower clearance of coronavirus infection may explain why men fare worse than women
by Albert Einstein College of Medicine Researchers at Montefiore Health System and Albert Einstein College of Medicine may have solved a mystery surrounding the novel coronavirus pandemic: Why men infected by the virus generally show more severe symptoms and are more likely than women to die from COVID-19. In collaboration with the Kasturba Hospital for...
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Chinese scientists determine structure of COVID-19 main protease and identify inhibitors
CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES HEADQUARTERS A team of Chinese scientists has reported the high-resolution crystal structure of the main protease (Mpro) of the COVID-19 virus and has identified drugs that may hold promise in combating the virus. Prof. RAO Zihe and Prof. YANG Haitao from the Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies of ShanghaiTech University,...
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There is no evidence that the coronavirus was created in a laboratory
by Eric Muraille, The Conversation The COVID-19 pandemic, which is disrupting our lives and shaking our health systems and economies, is at the root of what Dr. Sylvie Briand, director of the Department of Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases of the World Health Organization (WHO), rightly described as an infodemic– the viral circulation of rumours and...
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Open Science against COVID-19 – virology
by Curation team for the Coronavirus Disease Research Community Zenodo and OpenAIRE are contributing to the European Commission call for action with what they do best – preserving and sharing all COVID-19-related datasets, software, preprints and other research objects CERN, with co-funding from the European Commission, has long invested in Zenodo, a free repository for...
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New coronavirus possibly circulated within humans before COVID-19 pandemic
By Dr. Tomislav Meštrović, MD, Ph.D.Apr 15 2020 Genetic variation analysis and the evidence of recombination events point towards the conclusion that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) might have circulated cryptically among humans for years, as reported by a recent paper on a preprint server bioRxiv. The pandemic of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused...
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New universal Ebola vaccine may fight all four virus species that infect humans
Early preclinical tests in lab models are encouraging CINCINNATI CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER CINCINNATI – Infectious disease scientists report early development of a potential universal vaccine for Ebola viruses that preclinical tests show might neutralize all four species of these deadly viruses infecting people in recent outbreaks, mainly in Africa. Scientists at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital...