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COVID-19 nasal vaccine candidate effective at preventing disease transmission

Breathe in, breathe out. That’s how easy it is for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, to enter your nose. And though remarkable progress has been made in developing intramuscular vaccines against SARS-CoV- 2...

27 September, 2021

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A new synthetic multiantigen MVA vaccine COH04S1 effective against SARS-CoV-2

Scientists believe that vaccinating the entire global population is the key to contain the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This pandemic is caused by the rapid outbreak of a ribonucleic acid (RNA)...

22 September, 2021

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Study shows bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccine can protect mice against lethal SARS-CoV-2 challenge

A recent US study, currently available on bioRxiv preprint server, implies that vaccination with bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) can limit the infection with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV...

2 September, 2021

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COVID vaccines protect against Delta, but their effectiveness wanes

The Pfizer–BioNTech and Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines are effective against the highly infectious Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 — but their protection drops away over time, a study of infections in the United...

2 September, 2021

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Delta variant’s global spread raises question: will Covid-19 become more infectious?

As the highly infectious Delta variant challenges pandemic control efforts around the world, a great unknown looms large: what might the virus behind Covid-19 do next? Scientists widely agree that new mutations of Sars...

19 August, 2021

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Long COVID: Epstein-Barr virus may offer clues

Around a third of people who have had COVID-19 experience symptoms lasting 12 weeks or more, including fatigue, “brain fog,” and skin rashes, collectively known as long COVID. Other symptoms include difficulty sleeping...

28 July, 2021

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How to update an mRNA vaccine

As soon as mRNA vaccines demonstrated startling efficacy against SARS-CoV-2 and began rolling out late last year, the virus revealed its slippery nature. The mRNA vaccines now in use are based on early SARS-CoV-2...

23 July, 2021

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Study shows why second dose of COVID-19 vaccine shouldn’t be skipped

The second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine induces a powerful boost to a part of the immune system that provides broad antiviral protection, according to a study led by investigators at the Stanford University School of...

19 July, 2021

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Inhaled COVID-19 vaccine prevents disease and transmission in animals

In a new study assessing the potential of a single-dose, intranasal COVID-19 vaccine, a team from the University of Iowa and the University of Georgia found that the vaccine fully protects mice against lethal COVID-19...

9 July, 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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