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The vaccine donations aren’t enough

Developing countries now account for more of the COVID-19s daily global death toll, at 85 percent and climbing, than high-income countries. Thanks to high vaccination rates, deaths in these rich countries have fallen...

21 June, 2021

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‘Nanodecoy’ therapy binds and neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 virus

Nanodecoys made from human lung spheroid cells (LSCs) can bind to and neutralize SARS-CoV-2, promoting viral clearance and reducing lung injury in a macaque model of COVID-19. By mimicking the receptor that the virus...

18 June, 2021

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Snap and trap: DNA panels click together to form tiny virus catchers

Scientists have designed DNA panels that can recognize specific viruses and clamp together around the pathogens, trapping the viral particles inside an impregnable DNA shell. Antibiotics can kill bacteria, but medicine...

18 June, 2021

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New AI model helps understand virus spread from animals to humans

A new model that applies artificial intelligence to carbohydrates improves the understanding of the infection process and could help predict which viruses are likely to spread from animals to humans. This is reported in...

16 June, 2021

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Landmark G7 agreement pledges 870 million COVID-19 vaccine doses, half by end-2021

“Equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines represents the clearest pathway out of this pandemic for all of us — children included, and commitments announced by G7 members…are an important step in this direction”, the...

14 June, 2021

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Mixing COVID-19 vaccines appears to boost immune responses

Faced with short supplies of COVID-19 vaccines and unforeseen side effects, some countries have adopted an unproven strategy: switching shots midstream. Most authorized vaccines require two doses administered weeks or...

10 June, 2021

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Will COVID-19 vaccines give lifelong immunity to the disease? What we know

Whether we would develop immunity to COVID-19, or how long that would last if we did, has been a mystery since the early months of the pandemic. However, two new studies are helping us better understand how our immune...

8 June, 2021

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Novel therapy for Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus

U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) scientists, working as part of an international consortium, have developed and tested an antibody-based therapy to treat Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic...

7 June, 2021

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New study on swine influenza virus may be relevant to influenza, coronavirus infection in humans

A new study carried out in pig cells suggests previous infection with swine influenza virus (SIV) can protect against the development of porcine respiratory coronavirus (PRCoV) if there is a zero- or three-day interval...

3 June, 2021

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Vietnam detects hybrid of variants

Authorities in Vietnam have detected a new coronavirus variant that is a combination of the Indian and UK COVID-19 variants and spreads quickly by air, the health minister said on Saturday. After successfully containing...

31 May, 2021

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