coronavirus

COVID-19 and DNA, the chromosome telomeres: a team of researchers at Saint-Luc University Clinics and UCLouvain studied the potential role of these chromosome-specific traits

Hyperimmune (or convalescent) plasma, a study published in the prestigious The New England Journal of Medicine seriously questions the usefulness of plasma as a convalescent patient in treatment against COVID-19

COVID-19 in South Africa: an investigation by the Daily Maverick has found that the ICU field hospital project in Gauteng, which has still not yielded a single new bed months after the Covid-19 wave has passed Gauteng, will cost close to…

COVID-19 vaccine: Sinopharm claims its vaccine, which is being tested, has ‘no severe adverse reaction’. Almost one million people in China have taken a vaccine against Covid-19 produced by the China National Pharmaceutical Group…

What is the role of airborne diffusion in the contagion of COVID-19? The CNR, National Research Council, has published an important study in the scientific journal Environment International

COVID-19, Chile shines in a particularly important aspect of coronavirus control, that of performing diagnostic tests on the population. According to a daily report by Worldometer, the next will be Peru with 144,000 tests per million…

Acute appendicitis, a case report from South Africa. The COVID-19 (PIMS-TS) related multisystemic inflammatory syndrome was perhaps the pediatric pathology linked to the coronavirus pandemic that has most questioned researchers around the…

COVID-19, why do Covid-19 positive subjects remain asymptomatic for such a long period before they experience the characteristic discomfort and pain? ? This is the question that Rajesh Khanna, PhD, professor at Arizona College of Medicine -…

COVID-19, Qingdao epicenter of coronavirus care. The Chinese government, in fact, was the protagonist of an experiment of mass epidemiology to which we had dedicated an article: the vaccination against the coronavirus of every single…

The second COVID-19 wave is also breaking down in India, where the capital Delhi is fighting against a peak of contagions: in the last 24 hours 8,500 new contagions, which bring the total to 450,000, and 85 deaths (over 7,000 total).