Seattle :ID Genomics (IDG), a Seattle-based company, has invented a dipstick-based, rapid test for simultaneous identification of a large number of genetic variants of SARS-CoV-2 and has just received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to expedite bringing this test to market. The test will ‘fingerprint’ at once all currently known COVID-19 variants of … Read more
Michael Battistelli, licensed paramedic, emergency medical services instructor, Stratford, CT. Todd Rice, MD, associate professor of medicine, Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care; and medical director COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit, Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville. Yvonne Billings, MD, director of cardiopulmonary medicine, Cleveland Clinic Martin Health, Stuart, FL. Gina McNemar, ICU nurse, Baton Rouge General … Read more
FRIDAY, Aug. 6, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Spit and scan. That’s all you have to do, and in less than an hour, you can not only find out if you have COVID-19 but what variant you have, all without leaving your home. This is the hope and promise of a new saliva-based COVID-19 test … Read more
Ali Mokdad, PhD, chief strategy officer for population health, University of Washington, Seattle. Eric Topol, MD, executive vice president, Scripps Research; founder and director, Scripps Research Translational Institute, La Jolla, CA; editor-in-chief, Medscape. Justin Lessler, PhD, professor of epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Amesh Adalja, MD, senior scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for Health … Read more
UK coronavirus cases are rising due to a variant first identified in India that spreads more easily. Source link
July 22, 2021 — A year ago, scientists looking at the future of the COVID-19 pandemic felt optimistic. Vaccine development was zooming toward unprecedented achievement. And unlike the viruses that cause the flu or AIDS, they thought, this virus couldn’t mutate to evade the fully primed human immune system. “Thankfully, SARS-CoV-2 does not seem … Read more
The coronavirus has changed and changed again, getting more transmissible each time. Source link
Highlights: Study finds two doses needed to block delta variant. 6,000 die from COVID-19 in single day in India. Delta now dominant strain in U.K. June 10, 2021 — As the highly transmissible delta coronavirus variant continues to devastate India and spread to other nations, health experts are reiterating … Read more
“No country should be stigmatised for detecting and reporting variants,” the WHO’s Covid-19 technical lead, Maria Van Kerkhove, tweeted. She also called for “robust surveillance” of variants, and for the sharing of scientific data to help stop the spread. Source link
May 21, 2021 — The COVID-19 vaccines authorized for use in the United States and Europe offer protection against the four main coronavirus variants known to exist, a World Health Organization official says. “All COVID-19 virus variants that have emerged so far do respond to the available approved vaccines,” WHO European Regional Director Hans … Read more