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COVID-19 vaccination eases healthcare demand

A new study discusses a model that has been developed to predict the effects of relaxing restrictions on the number of new COVID-19 cases.

23 Sep 2021

COVID-19 transmission is higher with warm weather and increased visits to indoors public places, study finds

A new study finds that environmental factors and human mobility predict seasonal changes in COVID-19 rates, just as in influenza and similar diseases.

23 Sep 2021

New methodology for evaluating transmissibility and competitive advantages of co-circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants

A new study examines how SARS-CoV-2 variants confer a competitive advantage on the virus, fueling further transmission and mortality.

23 Sep 2021

Altered characteristics of granulocytes in COVID-19 patients can be linked to disease severity

COVID-19 disease severity seems to be affected by the characteristics of white blood cells called granulocytes, which are part of the innate immune system.

23 Sep 2021

People with natural immunity and subsequent mRNA vaccination can neutralize viral particles capable of resisting vaccine-induced antibodies

New research suggests SARS-CoV-2 spike protein substitution mutations can create a replication-defective viral particle that makes the virus resistant to vaccine-induced antibodies.

23 Sep 2021

Substantial differences in vaccination rates among immigrant health care workers in Norway

A new preprint examined the COVID-19 vaccination rates among HCWs in Norway, according to immigrant background.

23 Sep 2021

Varying immune responses after single dose of Pfizer and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines

A new preprint describes the significant variation in the early immune response elicited by two of the earliest vaccines to gain emergency authorization against COVID-19.

23 Sep 2021

Differences in blood gene expression among patients with varying COVID-19 severity

A new study published on the medRxiv* pre-print server and currently undergoing peer-review aims to answer this question through whole blood transcriptomics of individuals with varying degrees of COVID-19 severity. Transcriptomics, done by RNA sequencing, gives insights into the genes expressed in a cell at a given time point. It gives an analysis of all RNA molecules within a cell, in this case, whole blood.

23 Sep 2021

Long-term effects of COVID-19 in children

A recent preprint deals with the incidence and importance of long COVID in children.

23 Sep 2021

The impact of multiple sclerosis therapy on COVID-19 vaccine efficacy

In a paper, the vaccine-induced cellular and immune response of MS patients receiving a range of therapies are assessed.

23 Sep 2021

Antibody kinetics in recovered COVID-19 patients

Researchers from Tel Aviv University have been examining the kinetics of antibodies in recovered COVID-19 patients.

23 Sep 2021

Researchers to investigate suicidal behavior and self-harm among healthcare workers

A group of researchers from the University of Bristol and University College London recently collaborated in order to plan an investigation into suicidal behavior and self-harm in healthcare workers.

23 Sep 2021

Genome modeling framework for coronavirus pathogenicity prediction

Recent machine learning techniques have allowed viral genome sequencing to be utilized in a predictive capacity.

23 Sep 2021

SARS-CoV-2 infection may prompt Guillain-Barré syndrome

A new paper in Brain, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that a COVID-19 infection may prompt Guillain-Barré syndrome.

23 Sep 2021

Study reveals why SARS-CoV-2 is more infectious than SARS-CoV-1

Researchers from China and Canada recently combined structural data obtained from cryo-EM and structure prediction and constructed bottom-up Martini coarse-grained models of intact envelopes of SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2.

22 Sep 2021

U.S. vaccination effort against COVID-19 needs intensifying, warn researchers

Researchers have warned that the United States has not yet reached the necessary thresholds for achieving population immunity against severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) – the agent that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

22 Sep 2021

Triage protocols may increase racial disparities of treatment outcomes during COVID-19 pandemic

During the crush of the COVID-19 pandemic, overwhelmed doctors and nurses in some places have had to make agonizing decisions about which patients should receive scarce health care resources.

22 Sep 2021

Researchers encourage longer dosing intervals for Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine

Researchers in Canada, Italy, and the United States have encouraged extending the interval time between two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine among individuals who have not previously been infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

22 Sep 2021

COVID-19 will become a seasonal disease, U-M epidemiologist says

A University of Michigan epidemiologist believes that COVID-19 will become a seasonal disease, likely in the fall and winter seasons.

22 Sep 2021

First UK-manufactured lateral flow devices rolled out to universities across England

The first UK-manufactured rapid tests - otherwise known as lateral flow devices or LFDs - are being rolled out to universities across England.

22 Sep 2021

Disease/Infection News

COVID-19 vaccination eases healthcare demand

COVID-19 transmission is higher with warm weather and increased visits to indoors public places, study finds

New methodology for evaluating transmissibility and competitive advantages of co-circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants

Altered characteristics of granulocytes in COVID-19 patients can be linked to disease severity

People with natural immunity and subsequent mRNA vaccination can neutralize viral particles capable of resisting vaccine-induced antibodies

Substantial differences in vaccination rates among immigrant health care workers in Norway

Varying immune responses after single dose of Pfizer and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines

Differences in blood gene expression among patients with varying COVID-19 severity

Long-term effects of COVID-19 in children

The impact of multiple sclerosis therapy on COVID-19 vaccine efficacy

Antibody kinetics in recovered COVID-19 patients

Researchers to investigate suicidal behavior and self-harm among healthcare workers

Genome modeling framework for coronavirus pathogenicity prediction

SARS-CoV-2 infection may prompt Guillain-Barré syndrome

Study reveals why SARS-CoV-2 is more infectious than SARS-CoV-1

U.S. vaccination effort against COVID-19 needs intensifying, warn researchers

Triage protocols may increase racial disparities of treatment outcomes during COVID-19 pandemic

Researchers encourage longer dosing intervals for Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine

COVID-19 will become a seasonal disease, U-M epidemiologist says

First UK-manufactured lateral flow devices rolled out to universities across England

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