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Coronavirus News is a section dedicated to the new coronavirus that is causing an epidemic in China and fast spreading globally. The strain of coronavirus called Covid-19 or also commonly called the Wuhan coronavirus is genetically more potent and faster spreading than the SARS coronavirus. Currently teams are working to develop a new vaccine for this new coronavirus while other teams are trying t...
Source: SARS-CoV-2-Sexual Transmissions Oct 15, 2021 3 years ago
A new study by researchers from Columbia Mailman School of Public Health-Columbia University, New York and Columbia University Irving Medical Center-New York have confirmed that presence of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in semen of infected males and also has found that infected males or those that had recovered had low sperm count! The study findings published in the U.S. CDC Journal: Emerging Infec...
COVID-19 Drugs: A new study that analyzes real-world data utilizing artificial intelligence by researchers from AdventHealth Research Institute-Orlando, Oak Ridge National Laboratory-Tennessee and the University of Tennessee has found that the antiemetic drug Zofran (Ondansetron) lowers risk of mortality of severe COVID-19 patients on ventilators and is associated with increased survival of these ...
Long COVID is now becoming a more serious issue as initially certain earlier studies had found that only about 30 to 37 percent of people who were infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus will continue to suffer from a variety of long-term health/medical conditions known collectively as PASC or Post-acute Sequelae of COVID-19. However newer data is showing that not only are the medical conditions ...
Source: COVID-19 Immunology Oct 14, 2021 3 years ago
COVID-19 Immunology: A new study by researchers from the University of Glassgow-Scotland, the Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS-Italy and the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore-Italy has identified that a macrophage induced protein called SPP1 as a mediator that is driving multiple pathogenic inflammatory responses in severe COVID-19 as well as in Long COVID.
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Source: SARS-CoV-2 Research Oct 13, 2021 3 years ago
Scientists from the Global Health Institute-School of Life Sciences, Lausanne-Switzerland have in a new study found that acylation of spike of SARS-CoV-2 enhances infectivity and also fusion capacity.
Typically, SARS-CoV-2 virions are surrounded by a lipid bilayer that contains membrane proteins such as spike, responsible for target-cell binding and virus fusion.
The study team f...
Source: SARS-CoV-2-Eyes-Long COVID Oct 13, 2021 3 years ago
A new study by researchers from Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine has discovered that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is able to infect and replicate in the photoreceptor and also retinal ganglion cells of human retinal organoids.
Alarmingly the study findings not only suggest a retinal involvement in COVID 19 but also emphasize the need to monitor retinal pathologies as potential sequela...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Research Oct 12, 2021 3 years ago
A new study by researchers from University of South Florida-Tampa along with experts from James A Haley Veterans Hospital-Florida and Florida International University-Port St. Lucie have found that palmitoylation of the first five cysteine residues of the C-terminal domain of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is essential to SARS-CoV-2, facilitating cell entry and the formation of syncytia.
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I cringe whenever I see stupid government leaders around the world making public statements like “We should learn to live with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus” or what certain so called health officials or so called “experts” are telling the masses that the COVID-19 disease will become endemic and that things will then become manageable or ok!” Only the even more stupid ma...
Source: Lipids And COVID-19 Oct 11, 2021 3 years ago
A new study by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania showed that that lipids pay a critical role in SARS-CoV-2 replication and human immune response.
According to the study abstract, “Lipids play essential roles in the viral life cycle. The lipid composition of cell membranes can influence viral entry by mediating fusion or affecting receptor conformation. Upon infection, v...
As of last Friday, the Health Directorate in Iceland issued a total suspension of the usage of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine developed by a US pharmaceutical company due to concerns over increased risks of heart-inflammation.
Iceland joins a growing number of European countries including all four Nordic countries ie Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway that have either halted the usage of th...
Source: Phytochemicals To Treat COVID-19 Oct 10, 2021 3 years ago
Researchers from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg-Germany and the University Hospital Tübingen-Germany along with experts from Marinomed Biotech AG-Austria are exploring the antiviral properties of a natural lectin from bread wheat (Triticum vulgaris) called Wheat Germ Agglutinin (WGA) to treat COVID-19.
Their study findings showed that the Wheat Germ Aggluti...
Source: COVID-19 Immunology Oct 09, 2021 3 years ago
COVID-19 Immunology: A new study by researchers from Harvard medical School and MIT has found that neutrophil dysregulation is observed in severe COVID and that IgA-dominant responses drive neutrophil effector functions causing disease severity and mortality.
The study team collected 781 longitudinal blood samples from 306 hospitalized COVID-19+ patients, 78 COVID-19− acute...
Source: Pfizer COVId-19 Vaccine Oct 09, 2021 3 years ago
In a surprising new development, the elites controlling the narratives of the COVID-19 pandemic allowed the study findings of a two vaccine research investigations, one by scientists from Qatar and the second by researchers from Israel that alarmingly indicated that protection from the US COVID-19 vaccine by Pfizer may wane after only two months!
The studies were published in the pee...
Source: OAS1 Gene-COVID-19 Oct 08, 2021 3 years ago
OAS1 Gene and COVID-19: A new study by researchers from University of College London (UCL) has found that the OAS1 gene is a risk factor for bot the development of Alzheimer's Disease as well as COVID-19 severity.
The study team had previously reported that oligoadenylate synthetase 1 (OAS1) contributed to the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, by its enrichment in transcriptional...
Source: Long COVID-Kidney Disease Oct 08, 2021 3 years ago
Long-COVID-Kidney Disease: While many morons out there are assuming that COVID-19 is nothing as serious as the common flu and that it only affects the old or obese or those with existing comorbidities, its going to be fun in coming months and years as we see more people who had once been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus start developing not just the mild manifestations of Long COVID such a...
Source: Monoclonal Antibodies-SARS-CoV-2 Variants Oct 07, 2021 3 years ago
Monoclonal Antibodies-SARS-CoV-2 Variants: If anything, the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed to those intelligent enough to understand anything that the elites in the United States are nothing more than the most filthy, unethical and greedy and corrupted live forms ever to emerge this earth.
From day one of the pandemic, certain American elites have been controlling the narratives of the COV...
Source: Long COVID Research Oct 07, 2021 3 years ago
Long COVID Research: A new study by researchers from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai-New York shows that gene expression changes during acute SARS-CoV-2 infection may decide long-COVID symptoms.
Physicians and medical experts around the world are finally coming to terms that after 21 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 disease (PASC) or what are c...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Emerging Variants Oct 06, 2021 3 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Emerging Variants: A new study by French researchers from the Institut Pasteur-Paris, Université de Paris, Vaccine Research Institute-France and Sorbonne Université-Paris has alarmingly found that the various new emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants display enhanced syncytia formation! These findings confirm that the emerging variants are getting more dangerous for humans!
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Gout and COVID-19: Researchers from the University of Otago-New Zealand, University of Alabama at Birmingham-USA, University of Queensland-Australia and the University of Auckland-New Zealand have in a new study found that gout is a risk factor for SARS-CoV-2 infections and COVID-19 mortality. The study findings also showed that women with gout have higher COVID-19 death risk than men!
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Long COVID News: Long COVID or Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) is becoming a major issue of importance as the emerging data is indicating that it could be a major threat to public healthcare in various countries in coming months and years as the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and its emerging variants continue to ravage the world and infection rates are still increasing.
The spect...
Source: Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine Oct 05, 2021 3 years ago
Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine: A new study by researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center-Boston-US, University of Montreal-Canada, M Tufts University-Massachusetts-USA, Oregon Health & Sciences University-USA, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard-USA has found that the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine Ad26.COV2.S not only prevents SARS-CoV-2 induced thrombos...
Source: Long COVID Research Oct 04, 2021 3 years ago
Long COVID Research: A new study by researchers from McMaster University-Canada and University of Melbourne- Australia has found that individuals that only had mild COVID-19 infections still exhibited persistent leukocyte changes even three months after ‘recovery’!
It has been found that survivors of severe SARS-CoV-2 infections frequently suffer from a range of post-infection ...
Source: Vitamin D-COVID-19 Oct 03, 2021 3 years ago
UK Scientists Provides More Proof That Vitamin D Protects Against Severe COVID-19 Disease And Death While Questionable Canadian ‘Researchers’ Say Otherwise!
Vitamin D and COVID-19: A new study by researchers from Trinity College Dublin and University of Edinburgh has examined the association between vitamin D and COVID-19, and found that ambient ultraviolet B (UVB) radiati...
Source: SARS-CoV-2-LRRC15 Oct 03, 2021 3 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 and LRRC15: A new study by researchers from Wellcome Sanger Institute-UK, University of Cambridge-UK, Leibniz Institute for Primate Research-Germany, Georg-August University Göttingen-Germany and University of York has revealed that the protein called LRRC15 (Leucine-rich repeat containing 15) gene previously unknown to be involved in SARS-CoV-2 infection, is seen to interact with ...
Source: Blood Thinners-COVID-19 Oct 02, 2021 3 years ago
Blood Thinners-COVID-19: A new study by researchers from University of Minnesota-USA and Basel University-Switzerland has found that outpatients with COVID-19 who were on outpatient blood thinners at the time of diagnosis experienced a 43% reduced risk of hospitalization.
The study focused on COVID-19 positive patients who have been taking prescribed anticoagulant class rugs including warfarin, a...
Source: Hyperglycemia and COVID-19 Oct 02, 2021 3 years ago
Hyperglycemia and COVID-19: A new study by researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine-New York, USA has shown that COVID-19 not only is able to trigger hyperglycemia but it also disrupts fat cells and causes decreased production of the hormone Adiponectin especially in stages of disease severity.
Adiponectin (also referred to as GBP-28, apM1, AdipoQ and Acrp30) is a protein hormone and a...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Research Oct 01, 2021 3 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Research: A new study by researchers from University of Rochester has uncovered that the receptors ACE2 has novel protein interactions that are disrupted during SARS-CoV-2 infection, contributing to the spectrum of COVID-19 pathologies!
The ACE2 or angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 is the cell receptor that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus binds to and uses to enter and infect human cells.
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Source: Asymptomatic COVID-19 Oct 01, 2021 3 years ago
To date, almost 235 million people globally have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus according to official figures but in reality, as even proposed by the WHO and US CDC, these figures are much higher and could be even as high as five to eight fold!
However a majority of individuals upon infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus are either asymptomatic or only suffer mild conditions of...
ADE and SARS-CoV-2 Variants: A new study by researchers from University of Wisconsin-Madison has shockingly revealed that Antibody-Dependent Enhancement of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Is mediated by the IgG Receptors FcγRIIA and FcγRIIIA but does not contribute to aberrant cytokine production by macrophages.
The study also warns that the new emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants could actually...
Source: COVID-19 Research Sep 30, 2021 3 years ago
COVID-19 Research: A new study by researchers from Yale University, Harvard University and Rockefeller University has found that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is not only able to penetrate into the human host macrophages but also replicates in them while triggering an inflammatory cascade and interferon upregulation that often results in COVID-19 disease severity.
A macrophage is an important...
Source: Intramuscular Injections Sep 29, 2021 3 years ago
The COVID-19 vaccines are meant to be injected intramuscularly and there is a safe technique in which when the needle is inserted, the syringe should be pulled back a bit to see if there is blood and if there is blood, then that means that a vessel has been penetrated and the needle should be withdrawn and re-injected again to another site, always making sure that that no vessels are penetrated an...
Source: Singapore COVID-19 News Sep 29, 2021 3 years ago
Singapore COVID-19 News: First it was Israel and then Singapore, both model countries for take up rates of COVID-19 vaccines that are now seeing new surges of COVID-19 infections among both the vaccinated and unvaccinated. And mind you not all cases are mild among the vaccinated as what most mainstream Western media are propagating it to be. Cases of disease severity, hospitalizations and deaths a...
Source: B.1.1.523-Variant Sep 28, 2021 3 years ago
B.1.1.523 variant: Researchers from Maastricht University Medical Center-Netherlands and the South Limburg Public Health 9 Service-Netherlands has identified yet another new SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.523 that most probably originated from Russia and that combines many spike mutations linked to immune evasion from current variants of concern (VOC). The worrisome variant is fast spreading in Germany ...
SARS-CoV-2-Brain: A new preliminary but large-scale study led researchers from the Department of Clinical Neurosciences of the University of Oxford-UK, along with scientist from National Institutes of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health-USA and the Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College-UK investigating brain changes in individuals who had experienced COVID-19 dr...
COVID-19 and the Heart:The European Society of Cardiology and its researchers are warning that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 disease also affects the heart in so many ways and that fatalities and excess deaths due to COVID-19 induced heart issues are also rising.
The report was published in the peer reviewed e-Journal of Cardiology Practice (An official journal of the...
COVID-19 Herbs: A new study by American researchers from Eastern Virginia Medical School-Virginia, Rush University Medical Center-Illinois and Loyola University Chicago- Illinois has found that the phytochemical ginkgolic acid that is obtained from gingko biloba shows promising prospects as an antiviral to treat COVID-19 after finding that it was able to inhibit the infection of the coronavi...
Source: COVID-19-Autoimmune Diseases Sep 26, 2021 3 years ago
COVID-19 And Autoimmune Diseases: Various new studies are showing that an infection with the SARS-CoV-2 can also trigger a variety of autoimmune conditions and diseases including some never seen before.
In the first study by researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine-USA, the study team found that in severe hospitalized COVID-19 patients, the immune system is tricked into prod...
Source: COVID-19 Research Sep 26, 2021 3 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Day by day newer study findings and data are emerging that gives us a more detailed perspective about the COVID-19 disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Some of these findings add to the list of things that we already know while some supersede previous assumptions or weak study findings about the pathogenesis of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the human host cellular pathway re...
Source: Emerging Delta Sub-Variants-AY.29 Sep 25, 2021 3 years ago
Thailand Medical News is warning that a new Delta sub-variant called AY.29 with two more distinct mutations on it ie C5239T And T5514C that most probably became predominant in Japan in June 2021 could be more transmissible.
We are also warning that new mutations have been found on this new lineage ie C28170T (ORF8: P93S) and C5365T mutations since August 2021 and these new evolved forms of...
Source: COVID-19 Research Sep 25, 2021 3 years ago
COVID-19 Research: A new study led by researchers from University of Kent-UK and Goethe University-Germany has discovered that a protein that is a component of the human immune system called CD47, found on cell surfaces plays a contributing factor to COVID-19 disease severity.
Typically most SARS-CoV-2 infections are mild or even asymptomatic. However, a small fraction of infected individu...
COVID-19 Exposé : First it was the Trump Administration along with the U.S.NIH or to be specific the NIAID headed by Anthony Fauci that poured millions of dollars in to the development and research of the overpriced drug remdesivir that is not only hepatoxic but also nephrotoxic to treat COVID-19. There are tons of studies that confirm its toxicity issues, these are just a few.
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COVID-19 News: A new study by researchers from the Genos Glycoscience Research Laboratory-Croatia and the University of Zagreb-Croatia has shockingly found that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is able to not just bind to the ACE2 receptors but also are able to bind to 13 other identified human host receptors.
These host receptors include:
1. C-type lectin receptors
2. Mannose-binding lec...
Source: Guillain-Barré Syndrome and COVID-19 Sep 23, 2021 3 years ago
Guillain-Barré Syndrome and COVID-19: A new international collaborative study has confirmed that SARS-CoV-2 infections can trigger Guillain-Barré Syndrome.
Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is a rare, autoimmune disorder in which a person's own immune system damages the nerves, causing muscle weakness and sometimes paralysis. GBS can cause symptoms that ...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 R.1 Variant Sep 23, 2021 3 years ago
R.1 Variant: A new SARS-CoV-2 variant called R.1 has reemerged after months of gaining viral fitness and relevant mutations on its genome to make it truly virulent, potent, extremely transmissible and immune evasive. The R.1 may be easier to contract due to protein mutations within the spike protein of the virus and its ability to be easily transmitted from person to person despite vaccination sta...
COVID-19 Drugs: A researcher from the University of Lahore Pakistan has proposed that the drug aprepitant could be used to target the neurokinin-1 receptors to prevent COVID-19 cytokine storms.
Aprepitant is a medication used in the management and treatment of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) and postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV). It is in the neurokinin-1 a...
Source: America Medical News Sep 22, 2021 3 years ago
U.S. Medical News: American media are reporting that for the first time since early March 2021, COVID-19 death rates are once again climbing in the country with daily rates now topping almost 1,900.
As of today, (22nd September, 2021) according to statistics from Worldometer site, more than 43.2 million Americans have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and more than 696,867 Amer...
Source: COVID-19 Immunology Sep 22, 2021 3 years ago
COVID-19 Immunology: A new study by researchers from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center-California not only confirms that SARS-CoV-2 infections whether symptomatic (Be it Mild, Moderate or Severe) or even asymptomatic can generate distinct autoantibodies that can lead to a variety of autoimmune issues not only during the infection stage but also in the long term. The study has also found that males tend ...
Source: COVID-19 Research Sep 21, 2021 3 years ago
COVID-19 Research: A new study led by German researchers from the Center for Infection and Genomics of the Lung (CIGL), Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center, Giessen-Germany along with scientist from numerous other German research institutions have shockingly found that the SARS-CoV-2 induces the formation of unique and different and fibrin clot structures never seen before in the human...
Medical News: For a long time now, a lot of research on the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus mode of infection and pathogenesis has only been focuses on the spike proteins with very little paid to the rest of the proteins found on the viral genome.
A new study by German scientists from Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology and the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine-Berlin and the...
B.1.1.519 Variant Researchers are warning that the Mexican variant B.1.1.519 which has been ravaging Mexico for a few months now not only causes an increased risk of hospitalization and disease severity but also increased the risk of mortality. Further just like the Delta and Mu variants, it is spawning sub-variants that are of concern.
Two studies have already been published by Mexican re...
Source: COVID-19 Immunology Sep 20, 2021 3 years ago
COVID-19 Immunology: A new study by led by researchers from University of Amsterdam-Netherlands along with support by scientists from Weill Medical College of Cornell University-USA has found that SARS-CoV-2 infections typically activate the human dendritic cells via cytosolic receptors rather than by extracellular Toll-like receptors (TLRs).
Typically, the human immune system needs to rec...
Source: COVID-19 Mortality Sep 20, 2021 3 years ago
COVID-19 Mortality: A new research led by scientist from Oxford University-UK that also involved researchers from St. George’s University of London-UK, St. George’s Hospital NHS Trust-UK and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-USA has found that most fatal COVID-19 cases are due to weak immune responses and elevated MAIT(elevated mucosal associated invariant) cell acti...
Long COVID News: A new study led by researchers from Columbia University-USA along with support of scientists from the Zan Mitrev Clinic-North Macedonia and University of Florence-Italy has found that Long-COVID is associated with sustained biochemical disturbances especially elevated levels of D-dimers and Ferritin.
The Study team aimed to evaluate the incidence of Post-Acute Sequelae of ...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Variants Sep 19, 2021 3 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Variants: A new study by Taiwanese researchers from the Academia Sinica and National Taiwan University along with support by scientists from the Medical University of Lublin-Poland and Johns Hopkins University-USA has found that the different SARS-CoV-2 variants not only have different mutations and deletions on them but most importantly they exhibit different but unique spike str...
Source: Sunday COVID-19 Briefs Sep 19, 2021 3 years ago
Sunday COVID-19 Briefs
WHO While Encouraging Vaccination, Refuses To Reveal Vaccination Data Of Its Own Staff
WHO, a United Nations' health agency, which has repeatedly urged the world to get vaccinated against COVID-19 and other illnesses, on Friday declined to say how many of its own staffers have followed that advice.
Dr Margaret Harris, a World Health Organization spo...