Category: Health
Brazil suspends Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine trial due to adverse event
Brazil’s health regulator has suspended a clinical trial for China’s Sinovac coronavirus vaccine citing a severe adverse event, surprising the trial organisers who countered there had been a death but it was unrelated to the vaccine. More...
COVID-19 can fuse heart cells, disrupt heart rhythm
COVID-19 can disrupt the heart’s electric system, according to a report undergoing peer review at a Nature Research journal. More...
Coronavirus mutation could hamper vaccine development
New strain first emerged in Scotland and has now spread to 12 other countries but is not making the disease more severe or transmissible
A team of scientists from institutions around the world, including the universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Liverpool, has conducted an indepth study of an emerging strain of the virus that has been shown in clinical trials to evade monoclonal antibodies – the first tailored treatment for Covid-19. More...
Italy: 25,271 new Covid cases, 356 deaths
In the last 24 hours 25,271 new cases of Covid have been identified in Italy, about 7 thousand fewer than yesterday but with 43 thousand fewer tests than on Saturday: 147,725 yesterday against 191,144.
Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine found to be 90% effective
The coronavirus vaccine being developed by Pfizer and BioNTech has been found to be 90% effective in preventing people from getting the virus. More...
Mink coronavirus alert as UK hospitals ordered to keep suspected cases in isolation
Every hospital in the #UK has been ordered to isolate suspected “mink virus” patients amid increasing efforts to prevent a mutant strain of Covid from spreading to Britain. More...
Versatile and multivalent llama nanobodies efficiently neutralize SARS-CoV-2
“To our knowledge, the multivalent constructs represent the most potent SARS-CoV-2 neutralizers to date. More...
Highest 1-week spike yet of Covid-19 cases in US children
Soaring case counts around the country are impacting children at “unprecedented levels,” according to new numbers released Monday by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association, which are tracking data reported by state health departments. More...
Interleukin-6 levels are not highly elevated in Covid patients compared to levels in other critically ill patients
Rigorous studies are failing to find that anti Interleukin-6 drugs are effective against COVID-19. More...
Iceland to screen 15,000 mink farms for SARS-CoV-2
In light of the contagion of a mutated variant of the coronavirus from mink to people in Denmark, the (Iceland) Food Administration intends to start screening for coronavirus on the country’s mink farms. More...