Category: Health
Nepal: rise in coronavirus cases has similar trajectory to India driven by B117 and B1617
Authorities in Nepal are grappling to contain the rapid rise of COVID-19 cases with experts fearing that thousands of people in the Himalayan state have caught the more infectious mutant strains emerging out of India. More...
Cyprus: two-week lockdown imposed to try and reverse a spike in coronavirus infections
A two-week coronavirus lockdown has been introduced in Cyprus from 26th March 2021. More...
Sweden: 70yr old woman dies of blood clots and low levels of platelets following AstraZeneca vaccination
“I can confirm that we have received another report of a suspected death linked to vaccination last week,” writes Veronica Arthurson, unit manager at the Medical Products Agency in a text message to SVT. More...
USA: large covid-19 outbreak in Kentucky with R.1 coronavirus lineage variant after vaccine breakthrough with Pfizer
The Kentucky Department for Public Health and a local health department investigated a COVID-19 outbreak in a skilled nursing facility that occurred after all residents and health care personnel had been offered vaccination. More...
Scotland: Severe reaction to Astrazeneca vaccine turned woman’s legs into ‘giant blisters’
A Scottish mother feared she would lose her legs after suffering a severe reaction to the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine. More...
Israel: 62 cases of myocarditis following Pfizer coronavirus vaccination
About one in 100,000 people who received the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine suffered from myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) – a preliminary report by the committee of experts tasked by the Health Ministry to monitor the vaccine’s side effects has found. More...
MIT: 6ft social distancing rule doesn’t adequately address airborne transmission of coronavirus in indoor spaces
“There is now overwhelming evidence that indoor airborne transmission associated with relatively small, micron-scale aerosol droplets plays a dominant role in the spread of COVID-19 … Above all, our study makes clear the inadequacy of the Six-Foot Rule in mitigating indoor airborne disease transmission, and offers a rational, physically informed alternative for managing life in the time of COVID-19. More...
What does Sars-COV-2 really look like? Using Cryo-FM tomography you can finally see what the virus looks like that has killed millions already
What does a sars-cov-2 virus really look like?
France: 18 new infections reported of the 19B/501Y Henri Mondor coronavirus variant
The 19B / 501Y Henri Mondor variant (lineage A.27) has been detected in France since January 2021 infrequently but overall stable, with fluctuations from one week to the next: it represented 1% of sequences interpretable in the Flash # 6 survey (03/30/2021) versus 0.2% in the Flash # 5 survey (03/16/2021). More...
France: Breton variant B.1.616 – 37 cases & 16 deaths with just 9% of cases detected by first RT-PCR coronavirus test
As of 04/21, 37 confirmed cases of infection with the 20C / 655Y [B.1.616] variant have been reported in France, including 34 in Brittany and 3 in other regions in people linked to the area of circulation of the virus in Brittany (made up of several urban communities around Lannion, Guingamp, Saint-Brieuc, Paimpol). More...