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What are the potential benefits of SARS-CoV-2 antigen-based rapid diagnostic tests?

A team of researchers from the Johns Hopkins University, USA; Imperial College London, UK; and Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Switzerland, recently compared the effectiveness of Ag-RDT, NAAT, and clinical judgment alone in the diagnosis of COVID-19 in symptomatic patients.

22 Dec 2020

Large-scale study set up in UK to assess possibility of SARS-CoV-2 re-infection among healthcare workers

Researchers from Public Health England are conducting a large-scale prospective longitudinal study to determine whether healthcare workers who have previously developed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are immune to reinfection with the causative agent severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

22 Dec 2020

COVID-19 contact tracing ineffective without timely testing and isolation, study says

A new study by Canada-based researchers has showed that contact tracing is not effective if testing and isolation are delayed.

21 Dec 2020

Nearly half of US hospitals have reached critical care capacity, study finds

A new study by researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Brown University shows that about half of US hospitals have reported reaching critical capacity since September, illustrating the scale of the coronavirus pandemic’s ‘second wave’ and the burden of pressure it has placed on the nation’s healthcare.

21 Dec 2020

Study confirms the feasibility of RT-qPCR on extraction-free inactivated SARS-CoV-2 samples

A new paper reports superior results using an alternative test protocol for RT-qPCR testing for the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

21 Dec 2020

Effective vaccine strategies for New South Wales Australia under different vaccine supply

Researchers say mass immunization will terminate the disease, or immunizing 66% of the population with a 90% efficacy vaccine will achieve herd immunity.

21 Dec 2020

Prior use of renin-angiotensin system inhibitors linked to reduced risk of death in older COVID-19 patients with hypertension

A new study, appearing as a preprint on the medRxiv* server, demonstrates the protective effect of drugs in older COVID-19 patients with hypertension.

21 Dec 2020

Many US health experts underestimated the coronavirus … until it was too late

A year ago, while many Americans were finishing their holiday shopping and finalizing travel plans, doctors in Wuhan, China, were battling a mysterious outbreak of pneumonia with no known cause.

21 Dec 2020

Pooled COVID-19 testing methods could detect outbreaks in schools, says study

A team of researchers at Tufts University, USA, has found that pool testing in schools and universities can identify COVID-19 patients. This way, schools can immediately report the case, refer the staff to health departments, and conduct contact tracing.

21 Dec 2020

How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected the wellbeing of healthcare workers?

A new study by US-based researchers – at the Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center and Columbia University – has found that healthcare workers have experienced significant psychiatric distress during the pandemic.

21 Dec 2020

Scientists develop a real-time COVID-19 triage system to help contain its spread

A team of US-based researchers at Stanford University and Contra Costa Health Services have developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-based system that can identify and triage handwritten faxed COVID-19 forms in real-time.

21 Dec 2020

COVID-19 spread in cities driven by socioeconomically weaker groups, study finds

Researchers in Sweden have conducted a study showing that the transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) within cities is driven by socioeconomically weaker and high-mobility groups. They used Basel, Switzerland as their case study.

21 Dec 2020

SARS-CoV-2 spike protein remains remarkably conserved among 37 variants from Hong Kong

As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to intensify in many parts of the world, vaccine development is proceeding apace.

21 Dec 2020

SARS-CoV-2 RNA in serum associated with poor prognosis and high mortality

A new preprint indicates the direct correlation between the presence of detectable viral RNA loads in serum, and clinical severity and death.

21 Dec 2020

Cross-reactive coronavirus antibodies shape COVID-19 convalescent plasma functionality

The onset of the current COVID-19 pandemic revealed the seventh known pathogenic human coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2.

21 Dec 2020

South Korean city shows SARS-CoV-2 clade shift from V to GH over time

A new paper from South Korea describes the evolving SARS-CoV-2 genome in a single city, that of Gwangju, in the southwestern region of this country.

21 Dec 2020

Detecting SARS-CoV-2 sequences in blood monocytes

A meeting with doctors from Wuhan presented a compelling observation to Professor Laura Manuelidis, MD, from the Yale Medical School early in 2020.

21 Dec 2020

FDA issues first emergency use authorization for second COVID-19 vaccine

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the second vaccine for the prevention of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

21 Dec 2020

Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 transmission in large urban areas

A team of international researchers used mobility information and socio-demographic data to build a model of SARS-CoV-2 transmission to understand where, when, and how many transmission events occurred in the first wave of the pandemic in the United States.

18 Dec 2020

Higher COVID-19 mortality among certain groups in Colombia linked to structural inequalities

Researchers at the Ministry of Health and Social Protection in Bogotá, Colombia, provided evidence of socioeconomic inequalities in COVID-19 deaths in terms of age, sex, ethnicity, type of health insurance regime, and socioeconomic status.

18 Dec 2020

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome News and Research

Latest Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome News and Research

What are the potential benefits of SARS-CoV-2 antigen-based rapid diagnostic tests?

Large-scale study set up in UK to assess possibility of SARS-CoV-2 re-infection among healthcare workers

COVID-19 contact tracing ineffective without timely testing and isolation, study says

Nearly half of US hospitals have reached critical care capacity, study finds

Study confirms the feasibility of RT-qPCR on extraction-free inactivated SARS-CoV-2 samples

Effective vaccine strategies for New South Wales Australia under different vaccine supply

Prior use of renin-angiotensin system inhibitors linked to reduced risk of death in older COVID-19 patients with hypertension

Many US health experts underestimated the coronavirus … until it was too late

Pooled COVID-19 testing methods could detect outbreaks in schools, says study

How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected the wellbeing of healthcare workers?

Scientists develop a real-time COVID-19 triage system to help contain its spread

COVID-19 spread in cities driven by socioeconomically weaker groups, study finds

SARS-CoV-2 spike protein remains remarkably conserved among 37 variants from Hong Kong

SARS-CoV-2 RNA in serum associated with poor prognosis and high mortality

Cross-reactive coronavirus antibodies shape COVID-19 convalescent plasma functionality

South Korean city shows SARS-CoV-2 clade shift from V to GH over time

Detecting SARS-CoV-2 sequences in blood monocytes

FDA issues first emergency use authorization for second COVID-19 vaccine

Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 transmission in large urban areas

Higher COVID-19 mortality among certain groups in Colombia linked to structural inequalities

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