Category: Health
Tocilizumab and Sarilumab reduced the relative risk of death from Covid-19 by 24%
NHS patients to receive life-saving COVID-19 treatments that could cut hospital time by 10 days. More...
Comprehensive mapping of mutations to the SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain
Comprehensive mapping of mutations to the SARS-CoV-2 receptor-bindingdomain that affect recognition by polyclonal human serum antibodies. More...
Emergence and rapid spread of a new SARS-CoV-2 lineage with multiple spike mutations in South Africa
“Here, we describe a new SARS-CoV-2 lineage (501Y.V2) characterised by eight lineage-defining mutations in the spike protein, including three at important residues in the receptor-binding domain (K417N, E484K and N501Y) that may have functional significance. More...
Beijing clamps down to fight Covid surge
“Just one night after announcing it was entering the “wartime mode,” North China’s Hebei Province, which neighbors Chinese capital Beijing, began putting in place various COVID-19 prevention measures on Wednesday amid a sudden spike in coronavirus infections, including controls on highways passing through Hebei leading to Beijing and other provinces, stopping sales of railway tickets to Beijing, suspending classes in schools, implementing closed-off managements in residential communities in provincial capital Shijiazhuang, and taking sweeping nucleic acid tests. More...
Netherlands: The national lockdown has still not made a serious impact on the levels of coronavirus infection after three weeks
UK teacher Covid rates up to 333% above average
Covid rates among schools staff in some areas are as much as four times the corresponding local authority average, Tes.com More...
New UK SARS-CoV-2 B117 variant is now 7% of all cases in North Jutland and 2.3% of all cases in Denmark
At Aalborg University, Professor Mads Albertsen heads a research group that has followed the British mutation since it was discovered in December.
Mutations arising in SARS-CoV-2 spike on sustained human-to-human transmission and human-to-animal passage
“Spike mutations have also occurred during interspecies transfers of SARS-CoV-2 from humans to animals, both during establishment of experimental models of COVID-19 and as an unintended consequence of human interactions with domestic, curated and commercial animals.” More...
