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How can we predict the number of future COVID-19 hospital admissions?

Research led by Sophie Meakin of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom suggests ensemble forecasts — a method combining multiple models to predict COVID-19 cases — may be more accurate in estimating COVID-19 hospital admissions in local areas.

27 Oct 2021

Study shows sustained deterioration of mental health in UK across COVID pandemic

To date, it is not clear how the COVID-19 pandemic and implementation of various preventive strategies impacted mental health or which group of people were most affected by them. To address these issues, scientists have conducted coordinated analyses that included eleven UK longitudinal population studies, comprising data from before and throughout the pandemic.

27 Oct 2021

Postpartum women's experience of social restrictions during COVID-19

A new study published on the medRxiv* preprint server has focused on the effect of various social restrictions or lack of social support on women who delivered and raised babies during the pandemic.

27 Oct 2021

Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine provides durable protection against SARS-CoV-2 delta in macaques

Researchers in the United States have conducted a study showing that Moderna’s coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine provided durable protection against the B.1.617.2 (delta) variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in rhesus macaques.

26 Oct 2021

Cholesterol-lowering drugs not helpful in reducing COVID-related mortality or severity

In the worldwide effort to battle SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, researchers have often turned to medications used as therapies for other conditions in the hopes of finding ones that either kill the coronavirus or lessen the impacts from its infection.

26 Oct 2021

Simple blood test useful for excluding pulmonary embolism among hospitalized COVID-19 patients

A screening blood test originally validated in seriously ill patients without COVID-19 is still clinically useful for ruling out pulmonary embolism in patients hospitalized with the coronavirus, a University of South Florida Health (USF Health) Morsani College of Medicine research team reports.

26 Oct 2021

A high-throughput pipeline for identifying nanobodies that target and neutralize SARS-CoV-2

Researchers in the United States have developed a cost-effective, high-throughput pipeline for identifying effective nanobodies that target and neutralize severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) – the agent that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

26 Oct 2021

Extending COVID-19 vaccinations to adolescents and children may lower the overall disease burden

A recent study by researchers from the Netherlands highlights that the introduction of vaccination programs against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to adolescents and children may reduce infection rates and severe disease outcomes – both in these age groups and in the population as a whole. The paper is currently available on medRxiv* preprint server while it undergoes peer review.

26 Oct 2021

Disease/Infection News

How can we predict the number of future COVID-19 hospital admissions?

Study shows sustained deterioration of mental health in UK across COVID pandemic

Postpartum women's experience of social restrictions during COVID-19

Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine provides durable protection against SARS-CoV-2 delta in macaques

Cholesterol-lowering drugs not helpful in reducing COVID-related mortality or severity

Simple blood test useful for excluding pulmonary embolism among hospitalized COVID-19 patients

A high-throughput pipeline for identifying nanobodies that target and neutralize SARS-CoV-2

Extending COVID-19 vaccinations to adolescents and children may lower the overall disease burden

Hyperimmune antibody produced in horses may be an efficient approach to combat covid-19

AstraZeneca ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine does not affect fertility and birth rate outcomes, study says

Clinical trial shows no benefit of tamoxifen in treating deadly fungal meningitis

SARS-CoV-2 detection with natural spring water gargle instead of nasopharyngeal swabs

Mental health determinants during COVID pandemic pregnancies in the U.K.

Brain fog in long COVID

Model suggests longer protection from SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody response

Effectiveness of mRNA BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccine in immunocompromised individuals

Study finds potentially long-lasting impact of the pandemic on scientists

Plants could help in the fight against Covid, study reveals

Non-pharmaceutical interventions reduce likelihood of SARS-CoV-2 infection following high-risk exposure

Study finds SARS-CoV-2 infection is proportional to cell surface ACE2 levels

How agentic AI is reshaping laboratory workflows

Fourier 80: bringing benchtop NMR systems to the laboratory

How industrial hygiene flow calibration supports defensible exposure data

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