SARS-CoV-2 is an RNA virus of the Coronaviridae family that is the causal pathogen of the ongoing Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic. There are currently no antiviral drugs or vaccines to treat COVID-19, and the failure to identify effective interventions […]
Christopher Lee for The New York Times A 30-year-old man who believed the coronavirus was a hoax and attended a “Covid party” died after being infected with the virus, according to a Texas hospital.
The patient in the case report (let’s call him Tom) was 54 and in good health. For two days in May, he felt unwell and was too weak to get out of bed. When his family finally brought him […]
The antiviral drug baloxavir (Xofluza) prevented influenza in household contacts of infected patients, according to a study yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine , but a US expert outlined several caveats about the findings. The multicenter randomized […]
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Part 5: ” SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 surveillance: a national framework ” (Jul 9, 2020) Part 4: ” Contact tracing for COVID-19: Assessing needs, using a tailored approach ” Part 3: ” Smart testing for COVID-19 virus and antibodies […]
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In Depth | Covid-19 Opens in modal lightboxi A World Health Organization trial of COVID-19 treatments has been slow to recruit patients, such as this one in Spain. PHOTO: PAU BARRENA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Viewable Image – a world health organization […]
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Abstract Developing therapeutics against SARS-CoV-2 could be guided by the distribution of epitopes, not only on the receptor binding domain (RBD) of the Spike (S) protein, but also across the full Spike (S) protein. We isolated and characterized monoclonal […]
The coronavirus took hold slowly in India, but six months after its first confirmed infection it has overtaken Russia to record the world’s third largest caseload. With the world’s second-largest population, much of which lives packed into cities, the […]
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Abstract Korber et al. (2020) found that a SARS-CoV-2 variant in the spike protein, D614G, rapidly became dominant around the world. While clinical and in vitro data suggest that D614G changes the virus phenotype, the impact of the mutation […]