From the Guardian:
Promising Treatment for COVID-19
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jul/22/antibody-mix-trialled-as-potential-coronavirus-treatment
Thursday, July 23, 2020
Monday, July 13, 2020
COVID-19: Interview with Larry Brilliant
From Wired, the American magazine
An interesting interview giving a good overview of where we are in
relation to the COVID 19 pandemic. Some of it is pretty grim, but some of it is
encouraging. (There are many references to the USA, but not only.)
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Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
Thursday, July 2, 2020
COVID-19: Interview with Professor Peter Piot
Dear All;
A good overview of the health situation related to COVID-19 by someone who knows what he is talking about -- in fact, he was ill with the virus for 3 months.
https://www.cityam.com/vaccine-will-come-but-not-without-huge-challenges-leading-world-epidemiologist/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Midday+newsletter+June+2019
A good overview of the health situation related to COVID-19 by someone who knows what he is talking about -- in fact, he was ill with the virus for 3 months.
https://www.cityam.com/vaccine-will-come-but-not-without-huge-challenges-leading-world-epidemiologist/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Midday+newsletter+June+2019
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
COVID-19: Clinical Application of AI
From Cell Magazine:
Clinical Application of AI to Treatment of COVID-19 Patients
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867420305511
Clinical Application of AI to Treatment of COVID-19 Patients
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867420305511
Monday, June 29, 2020
Cyber-privacy & Cyber-crime
An unnamed
woman in the Netherlands was upset that her mother posted photos of her
children on Facebook and Pinterest, and demanded she take them down. The
grandmother refused multiple requests, so her daughter took her to court,
citing the European Union’s GDPR — the General Data Protection Regulation, an
online privacy law.
The judge in the case sided with the middle generation: the
grandmother must take the photos down, or face a 50 euro (US$56) fine — per day
— and if she posts any other photos of the children without the parents’
permission, those photos would also be subject to the fine.
“I think the ruling
will surprise a lot of people who probably don’t think too much before they
tweet or post photos,” said tech attorney Neil Brown of British law firm
decoded.legal. And if someone wants their photo taken down, then “the
reasonable thing — the human thing — to do, is to go and take them down.”
(RC/BBC) ...You know things have gotten bad when lawyers have to point out
“the human thing to do.”
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Monday, June 1, 2020
COVID-19: Interview with Christian Drosten
From Spiegel on
line
An interesting interview
that gives an insight into the way the pandemic has been managed in Germany
and, also, what the challenges and threats ahead are.
You will notice the
matter-of-fact tone of the interviewee, who tells it as it is. And he is not scared
of the popular press and says it clearly. This is to his credit.
I think we could do, everywhere in the world, with a bit more of all that.
Friday, May 15, 2020
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
COVID-19: Projecting Transmission Post Pandemic
Projecting COVID-19 Transmission Post Pandemic
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/early/2020/04/14/science.abb5793.full.pdf
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/early/2020/04/14/science.abb5793.full.pdf
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
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Monday, May 11, 2020
Friday, May 8, 2020
COVID-19: Bats & Viruses
How Bats Carry Corona-viruses without Getting Sick Themselves
https://www.labmanager.com/news/how-bats-carry-coronaviruses-without-getting-sick-themselves-22625?utm_campaign=NEWSLETTERS_LM_Monitor_2020&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=87603383&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--NW-jAblqCbNP_eqbu_fSsEIVU3HTZnbEda0lYfelQcDMLegDZyh1lR1_aVQuMayuF2lj1RJTKefBFrAppl5N0lLcd8yEp1Opd1p_EPkTvZgcTo8g&_hsmi=87603831
https://www.labmanager.com/news/how-bats-carry-coronaviruses-without-getting-sick-themselves-22625?utm_campaign=NEWSLETTERS_LM_Monitor_2020&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=87603383&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--NW-jAblqCbNP_eqbu_fSsEIVU3HTZnbEda0lYfelQcDMLegDZyh1lR1_aVQuMayuF2lj1RJTKefBFrAppl5N0lLcd8yEp1Opd1p_EPkTvZgcTo8g&_hsmi=87603831
Tuesday, May 5, 2020
COVID-19: More on Chloroquine
Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS corona virus infection
and spread
This is from Fauci's institute back in 2005. Their research showed
it had "both prophylactic and therapeutic advantage."
Monday, May 4, 2020
Wednesday, April 29, 2020
COVID-19: The End?
Study predicts end of corona-virus worldwide using artificial intelligence
Details may be found here:
https://people.sutd.edu.sg/jianxi_luo/public_html/COVID19PredictionPaper.pdf
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
COVID-19: News Updates
BBC
A lot is written about COVID 19 but these 3 stories seem
particularly relevant and interesting.
The 1st one is good news: Oxford University claims to have found a vaccine
that works, which could be ready in September 2020. It has been tested on
monkeys already, and successfully so.
The 2nd one is about the issue of immunity, which is on everyone's mind: the
article explains why this question is complex.
The 3rd one is about New Zealand, a fellow Commonwealth country and an
English-speaking island nation, just like Britain: New Zealand currently has
1,124 confirmed cases and 19 deaths out of a
population of around five million people. Its new cases have stayed in
the single digits for several days, leading the government to say that the
virus was effectively eliminated.
The population of the UK is about 65 million people: if you
multiply the NZ figures by 10 (5m X 10 = 50 m), you would have 190 dead. Right
now, in Britain, it is >20,000. Including deaths in care homes and other
unrecorded deaths, it is probably closer to 28,000, perhaps as high as
35,000.
The article explains what NZ did right, which shows what the UK
did wrong. All the rest is waffle and obfuscation. It is all very well having a
minute's silence for all the medical staff who have died; the point is, they
should never have died in the first place.
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Could there be millions of doses of a Covid-19 vaccine available
by September?
It seems significantly earlier than we had been cautioned to
expect, but the Oxford University's Jenner Insititute believes it has produced
an effective vaccine, and plans to carry out clinical tests on 6,000 people
before the end of May.
The Jenner vaccine was tested on six rhesus macaque monkeys at the
US National Institutes of Health’s Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Montana last
month, according to the New York Times.
The monkeys were exposed to high doses of the virus, and all six
remained healthy 28 days later. Monkeys without the vaccine fell sick,
according to the report.
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), which
is funding nine different coronavirus vaccine projects, is hopeful a vaccine
could be ready this year, Bloomberg reports.
CEPI
had initially envisaged a later timescale because it had not taken factors into
account such as companies working together.
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Can you catch
coronavirus again? Why are some people sicker than others? Will it come back
every winter? Will a vaccine work? Could immunity passports get some of us
back to work? How do we manage ...
|
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-52450978
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Coffee and fast food
seemed to be the first thing on the mind of New Zealanders as the country
emerged from almost five weeks of strict lockdown. The alert level has
shifted to level three ...
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Friday, April 17, 2020
COVID19: Life Imitates Art
Art work created by Tara Behbahani for an exhibition in China 8 years ago:
COVID-19: Seasonal Effects
From the University of Michigan School of Public Health:
Of the seven coronaviruses known to infect people, four cause common respiratory infections that are sharply seasonal and appear to transmit similarly to influenza
Of the seven coronaviruses known to infect people, four cause common respiratory infections that are sharply seasonal and appear to transmit similarly to influenza
Details below:
Coronavirus occurrence and transmission over 8 years in the HIVE cohort of households in Michigan
https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/doi/10.1093/infdis/jiaa161/5815743?guestAccessKey=b19eb499-007a-4ebf-a4a8-bb6a7481ec0c
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