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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...
COVID-19 Updates: Pathology studies of deceased COVID-19 patients by researchers from King's College London in collaboration with the University of Trieste and the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biology in Italy have revealed that the human host lung damage is often characterized by SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA persistence, pneumocyte syncytia and thrombosis.
The study team ...
Vaccine News: As an individual that has been observing with skepticism the vaccines and therapeutic programs initiated in America under the corrupted and incompetent Trump administration and Dr Anthony Fauci with so many other scammers in play including a group of clandestine businessmen and billionaires headed by Tom Cahill and Nick Ayers, an aide of Mike Spence, it shocking to see that the trill...
COVID-19 News: According to a new study by researchers from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra and Columbia University Medical Center nerve damage to vocal cords could be the reason why some individuals recovering from COVID-19 suffer mysterious bouts of shortness of breath for months after shaking off the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
According to...
COVID-19 Drugs: Researchers from the University of South Australia, Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS)-Italy and University of Campania-Italy in a new international study propose that beta-blockers could potentially be used to treat COVID-19.
COVID-19 disease which has now rapidly spread around the globe causing severe pneumonia is often linked to Acute Respir...
Source: Coronavirus Research Nov 03, 2020 4 years ago
Coronavirus Research: Scientists from Georgetown University Medical Center-USA and the Bogomolets National Medical University-Ukraine in a new study found that vascular cells in the lung tissue begin to secrete signaling growth factors when exposed to just the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, without the rest of the viral components. Since this signaling mechanism is potentially linked to wo...
Source: Biological Warfare Nov 03, 2020 4 years ago
Biological Warfare: There are more reports discreetly emerging around the world that malicious groups of people are using the COVID-19 pandemic to create more upheavals and chaos to meet their political and group’s goals by inhumane methods including leveraging on the current COVID-19 crisis by developing so called homemade bioweapons involving the usage of the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus. Their ...
COVID-19 News: Researchers from University of Michigan have made a startling discovery that immunocompromised individuals contracting COVID-19 can exhibit prolonged viral shedding for weeks to even months!
The study team presented a case report of a chronic COVID-19 patient with hematologic malignancy. The patient shed infectious SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus for over 119 days. This case highlig...
COVID-19 Latest: A new study by researchers from University of Michigan, U.S. NIH-Bethesda and Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine-China have surprisingly discovered that the culprit that is causing blood clots in most severe COVID-19 infections is an autoimmune antibody that's circulating in the blood, attacking the cells and triggering clots in arteries, veins, ...
Source: COVID-19 Genetics-Genomics Nov 02, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Genetics-Genomics: Indian researchers from CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology-India in a new study have revealed the critical roles that non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) and RNA Interference (RNAi) play in SARS-CoV-2 infection and pathogenesis.
Despite the fact clinical trials of a number of promising antiviral drugs and vaccines against COVID-19 are underway, it is hard to predic...
Source: Melatonin-COVID-19 Nov 02, 2020 4 years ago
Melatonin-COVID-19: Columbia University researchers have in a new study showed that COVID-19 patients requiring intubation and mechanical ventilation due to respiratory distress may benefit from treatment with the hormone melatonin as the survival rates are greatly increased.
The study findings were published on a preprint server and are currently being reviewed. https://www.medrxiv.org/c...
COVID-19 Drugs: With the current COVID-19 pandemic fast escalating and no effective drugs to date, researchers around the world are desperately trying to find suitable drug candidates to further explore their efficacy against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. In two separate studies, two possible drug candidates that demonstrated to inhibit the SARS-CoV-2 virus were identified, one being 5-Amino Levulin...
Source: COVID-19 Research Nov 02, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Scientist from the U.S. National Institutes of Health have shockingly discovered that that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus utilizes the cell organelles called lysosomes to exit cells instead of the typical biosynthetic secretory pathways that other viruses normally adopt.
Illustration shows components of the lysosome exocytosis pathway, which coronaviruses use to exit cells. Also s...
COVID-19 Updates: A new study by Italian researchers from the School of Medicine, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University-Milan has shown that COVID-19 is associated with clinically significant weight loss and also an increased risk of malnutrition, independent of hospitalization.
The study findings were published in the peer reviewed medical journal: Clinical Nutrition. https://www.cli...
COVID-19 Herbs: A new research is currently under way by Thailand Medical News to explore certain phytochemicals present in Wasabi that might have potential antiviral activity against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and could maybe treat COVID-19 possibly in combination with other herbs and phytochemicals.
Wasabi a pungent condiment for sushi and other foods typic...
Source: COVID-19 Latest News Nov 01, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Latest News: Researchers from Harvard Medical School have found in a new observational study that major thromboembolic complications and adverse cardiovascular events occurred with high frequency in patients with COVID-19, especially in the intensive care setting, despite a high use of thromboprophylaxis.
The study involving a retrospective cohort of 1,114 patients with COVI...
Source: COVID-19 Supplements Nov 01, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Supplements: Before we really embark on answering this question, lets first us look at what happened in the early part of the pandemic. We had to endure an constant onslaught of stupid online fake news from conspiracy theories that 5G caused COVID-19 (we do believe that 5G can cause other health issues but not COVID-19 please!), that COVID-19 disease is not real, there are some crazy plan...
Source: COVID-19 Clinical Care Nov 01, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Clinical Care: British researchers from the University of Nottingham and several hospitals under the Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation, Salford Royal NHS Foundation, Trust Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Manchester have in a new study found that a high proportion of patients admitt...
COVID-19 Immunology: Scientist from the University of Florida have found that the SARS-CoV-2 viroporin triggers the NLR Family Pyrin Domain Containing 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome, which is responsible for the inflammatory pathology in severely ill COVID-19 patients. Viroporins are small and usually hydrophobic multifunctional viral proteins that modify cellular membranes, thereby facilitating...
COVID-19-News: A new study by scientist from Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok-Russia, Pacific State Medical University, Vladivostok-Russia and the International Medical Research Center, Niigata-Japan finds that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus might attack the red marrow , thus not only affecting existing erythrocytes in the bloodstream but also the process of the formation of the new o...
Source: COVID-19-Antibodies Oct 30, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19-Antibodies: The independent data monitoring committee (IDMC) has recommended that Regeneron ‘s clinical trial of its antibody treatment called REGN-COV2 for severe COVID-19 patients needing oxygen or who are on ventilators be suspended with immediate effect. The decision was made in the last 24 hours and Regeneron was legally obliged to comply immediately.
On early Fr...
Source: COVID-19 Second Wave Oct 30, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Second Wave: For those that have been skeptical with all our past predictions and coverage, good news, the COVID-19 second wave has already arrived and it going top till last end of May 2021 with catastrophic consequences, we predict that by fourth week of November, death rates should start rising exponentially and this time we would start rates never seen before.
This is just th...
Source: Coronavirus Latest Oct 30, 2020 4 years ago
Coronavirus Latest: Researchers from University of Texas Health-San Antonio, Texas Biomedical Research Institute-San Antonio and New England Biolabs-Massachusetts have in a new study involving the usage of Advanced Photon Source have discovered new insights into the ways the SARS-CoV-2 virus camouflages itself inside the human body.
Researchers from around the globe have been ...
COVID-19 Updates By Thailand Medical News: There is a common fallacy that those are affected by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus but did not exhibit any symptoms (Asymptomatic individuals) are safe from the effects of the virus.
Some assumed that it is their strong immune system that prevented the virus from causing any symptoms or even to experience just mild symptoms. In reality it has nothin...
COVID-19 News: A new study led by scientist from the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University-Philadelphia along with researchers from Rowan University-New Jersey and The Shriners Hospitals Pediatric Research Center-Philadelphia shows that the spike proteins that extrude from SARS-CoV-2 promote inflammatory responses on the endothelial cells that form the blood-brain barrier. T...
Source: SARS-COV-2 Variants-Mutations Oct 29, 2020 4 years ago
SARS-COV-2 Variants-Mutations: Scientists from the University of Basel-Switzerland, Biomedicine Institute of Valencia (IBV-CSIC)-Spain and SeqCOVID-SPAIN consortium have identified a novel SARS-CoV-2 variant that has spread widely across Europe in recent months. The research findings were published on a preprint server and have yet to be peer-reviewed. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020....
Source: COVID-19 Long Haulers Oct 29, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Long Haulers: According to new research findings presented at the recently held 29th Congress of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology by researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), certain patients with COVID-19 have persistent skin-related symptoms long after their initial infection has cleared.
Such dermatological issues tend to be point to another bur...
COVID-19 Latest: A new study by researchers from Wellcome Sanger Institute-UK, various departments at the National Institute of Health-Maryland, University of North Carolina School Of Medicine-Chapel Hill, Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla-California, University of California-San Diego, University of Maryland School of Medicine-Baltimore, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge-UK and ADA Science & Res...
Source: COVID-19 Genetics Oct 29, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Genetics: Genetics, genomics and personalized or precision medicine is going to play a very critical role in treating the COVID-19 disease and more researches and experts have to start adopting this approach.
The specific SARS-CoV-2 variant that is at play and the patient’s full genetic will determine the success of treatment protocols and therapeutics.
In a new TMN ...
Source: Recovered COVID-19 Patients Oct 29, 2020 4 years ago
Recovered COVID-19 patients are most likely to still have the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in them despite being termed as ‘recovered ‘as a result of negative nasal swab PCR test.
A recent research published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine presents new findings and data that address important questions pertaining to the containment of the coronavirus pandemi...
Source: COVID-19 Immunology Oct 29, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Immunology: Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)-Germany, Heidelberg University-Germany, German Cancer Research Center-Heidelberg, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford Genome Technology Center and the University of California-San Diego have in a new study explored if the innate immune response triggered in the human gut to combat viral infection is...
Herd Immunity: Researchers from Department of Applied Computer and Biosciences, University of Applied Sciences Mittweida-Germany, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences-Cameroon, Limbe, Department of Mathematics, University of Buea, Buea-Cameroon, Department of Mathematics-Lehigh University, Bethlehem-USA and West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens, University of Ghana ha...
Research News: A new study by researchers from Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons has found that coronaviruses including the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the COVID-19 disease are adept at imitating human immune proteins that have been implicated in severe conditions.
It has been known that viruses deploy genetically encoded strategies to co-opt host machinery a...
COVID-19 Latest: Researchers from a Canada in a new study have found that the SARS-CoV-2 has yet another manner of messing up the human host immune system by using its viral papain proteases to target the ULK1 kinase enzymes which leads to disruption of cellular autophagy, a critical component of the immune function.
The study findings were published on a preprint server but are currently...
Source: Dietary Supplements Oct 28, 2020 4 years ago
Dietary Supplements: A study led by researchers from Imperial College London, NNEdPro Global Centre for Nutrition and Health-Cambridge, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Nagasaki University-Japan have found that high vitamin A, E, and D intake may be linked to fewer respiratory complaints in adults. The study involved analysis of nationally representative long term survey d...
COVID-19 News: Medical researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Pittsburgh have gathered more than 80 studies, reviewed the data, and identified commonalities that are helping to paint a broader picture of how COVID-19 affects the brain.
The study findings, focused on electroencephalogram (EEG) abnormalities of the brain. EEG is a test used to evaluate the electri...
Source: COVID-19 Supplements Oct 28, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Supplements: A new study by Spanish researchers from the Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla-IDIVAL-Santander and the University of Cantabria Santander has found that over 82 percent of 216 hospitalized COVID-19 patients had vitamin D deficiency.
The study joints numerous other research confirming the critical role that Vitamin D plays in COVID-19 despite certain American media st...
Source: Echocardiograms And COVID-19 Oct 27, 2020 4 years ago
Echocardiograms or cardiac ultrasounds are providing a view of the heart and the impact of the COVID-19 virus on patients. Researchers from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in a new study have identified different types of cardiac structural damage experienced by COVID-19 patients after cardiac injury that can be associated with deadly conditions including heart attack, pulmonary embolism, ...
Source: Antibodies-COVID-19 Oct 27, 2020 4 years ago
Antibodies-COVID-19: It was reported in the last 24 hours that U.S. government and health officials are putting an immediate stop to a study testing an Eli Lilly antibody drug LY-CoV555, for individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 because it doesn't seem to be helping them. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04501978?term=ACTIV-3&draw=2&rank=1
Initially independent monitors...
Source: COVID-19 Symptoms Oct 27, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Symptoms: Moroccan medical researchers have reported a documented case of a COVID-19 patient manifesting double vision (Diplopia) and misalignment of her left eye (Strabismus). Investigations showed that the conditions were a result of third cranial nerve palsy caused as a result of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Restricted upgaze (A), adduction (B), and downgaze (C) of the left eye in ocular mo...
Source: COVID-19 Genetics Oct 27, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Genetics : Scientists from Yale University and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard screened hundreds of millions of cells exposed to the COVID-19 and MERS viruses and identified dozens of genes that both enable the viruses to replicate in cells and also those that seem to slam the door on the virus.
The study team said that the identification of host genes essential for SARS-C...
COVID-19 Latest: According to a new study by researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian when a patient is hospitalized with COVID-19, signs of damage to the right side of the heart may indicate a greater risk of death.
The study findings suggest that doctors should consider looking for such damage using a readily available and non-invasive ultrasound test called an ...
Neurology-Stroke: A new study by researchers from Yale University, Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute and Medstar Union Memorial Hospital-Baltimore has found that almost 30 percent of young American adults do not know what are the symptoms of a stroke...
Source: U.S. COVID-19 Latest Oct 26, 2020 4 years ago
U.S. COVID-19 Latest: The sad findings from a new study by researchers from Harvard University Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospitals, Massachusetts General Hospital and also experts from Yale University show that COVID-19 is now becoming the leading cause of death between those aged 25 to 44 years of age, surpassing deaths from unintentional opioid overdoses!
The study findi...
Source: COVID-19 Quarantine Oct 26, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Quarantine: Scientist from Trinity College Dublin have in a new study have found an updated accurate estimate of the incubation period of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the pathogen that causes the COVID-19 disease to be anything from one to up to 34 days!
The study findings contradicts initial estimates made during the early stages of the pandemic that claimed the incub...
COVID-19 Drugs: Researchers from Yale University School of Medicine in a new study exploring the inhibitory effects of the drug merofloxacin on frameshifting during SARS-CoV-2 replication have reported positive results in vitro studies. The study findings are an important proof-of-concept that supports the potential for targeting −1 PRF (programmed −1 ribosomal frameshifting) as a...
Source: Latest Coronavirus News Oct 25, 2020 4 years ago
Latest Coronavirus News: Chinese health authorities are reporting new COVID-19 cases sprouting all over in various cities and counties in the far-western region of Xinjiang.
The outbreak initially started in the predominantly muslim Shufu county where a single case was reported on Saturday but in the last few hours hundreds of cases are being reported all over the Xinjiang province.
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Source: SARS-CoV-2 Strains Oct 25, 2020 4 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Strains: A new study led by researchers from University of Missouri along with scientists from University of Nebraska and Karolinska Institute-Sweden have alarmingly discovered that most of the new prevailing SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus strains in the United States and Europe are not just strains containing the D61G mutation on them but they also have two other mutations on them ie P323L and...
Source: COVID-19 Supplements Oct 25, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Supplements: There is now growing interests in the usage of lysine as a possible adjuvant to treat COVID-19 among the research community after a non-medical professional by the name of Bo Karlicki from the the Dominican Republic took his own initiative to do his own research and started advocating the usage of Lysine to help in the possible treatment of COVID-19 and also as a possibl...
Source: COVID-19 Symptoms Oct 25, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Symptoms: Researchers from ULB Neuroscience Institute, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)-Belgium in a new study have discovered that smell loss in COVID-19 patients is not due to SARS-CoV-2 neuro-invasiveness but rather due to changes in the brain metabolic processes.
This however does not discount than SARS-CoV-2 neuro-invasiveness cannot or does not occur. It does but ...
Aspirin-COVID-19: A new study led by researchers from University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) shows that hospitalized COVID-19 patients who were taking a daily low-dose aspirin to protect against cardiovascular disease had a significantly lower risk of complications and death compared to those who were not taking aspirin.
Importantly, aspirin takers were less likely to be placed...
POST COVID: A new study by researchers from Imperial College London-UK, University of Southampton-UK, University of Cambridge-UK and King’s College London-UK and University of Chicago-USA has reported concerning findings showing that patients who had recovered from COVID-19 exhibited significant cognitive deficits.
Numerous past studies have revealed neurological problems in severel...
Source: United States-COVID-19 Oct 24, 2020 4 years ago
United States-COVID-19: America reported a record of more than 81,000 new COVID-19 infections over the last 24 hours according to figures from Worldometer.
It was reported that between 8:30 pm Thursday and the same time Friday, 81,210 infections were recorded, bringing the total number since the start of the pandemic to nearly 8.5 million COVID-19 infected cases in the country w...
Source: COVID-19 Supplements Oct 24, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Supplements: A new study by researchers from the Institute for Optimum Nutrition-UK, University of Otago-New Zealand, Swansea University Medical School-UK, Morriston Hospital-UK Eastern, Virginia Medical School-USA and University of Oxford-UK demonstrates that Vitamin C can be used as an adjuvant to treat COVID-19 especially in the severe and critical stages.
Ascorbic acid or vit...
Source: COVID-19 -Dexamethasone Oct 24, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 -Dexamethasone: A new study led by researchers from University of Virginia-U.S. along with scientist from Polish Academy of Sciences-Poland, Poznan University of Technology-Poland, Medical University of Bialystok-Poland and University of South Carolina-U.S. has discovered a about how the human body transports dexamethasone, a drug that can increase the survival chances of patients wi...
Source: Convalescent Plasma Oct 23, 2020 4 years ago
Convalescent Plasma: An open label phase II multicenter randomized controlled trial (PLACID Trial) of convalescent plasma in the management of moderate COVID-19 in 464 adults in India has showed that the treatment protocol does not does not reduce their chances of getting seriously ill or dying, in simple words, it is not effective in treating COVID-19.
The study findings were publis...