In Covid-19 recovered patients, South Korean KCDC experts found false positives, not reinfections

South Korea’s infectious disease experts said Thursday that dead virus fragments were the likely cause of over 260 people here testing positive again for the novel coronavirus days and even weeks after marking full recoveries. Oh Myoung-don, who leads the central clinical committee for emerging disease control, said the committee members found little reason to

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Santhera and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to Investigate Lonodelestat in COVID-19-related Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)

Santhera Pharmaceuticals (SIX: SANN) has entered into a collaboration agreement with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) to investigate the potential of lonodelestat (POL6014), a potent inhibitor of human neutrophil elastase (hNE), as a therapeutic intervention for COVID-19-related acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Researchers at CSHL are part of a recently formed consortium of international non-clinical and

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New research finds a connection between NETs and a more severe disease course of Covid-19

New research finds a connection between destructive white blood cells and a more severe disease course in patients with COVID-19. Source University of Michigan “We found that patients with COVID-19 infection have higher blood levels of neutrophil extracellular traps, also called NETs, which are a product of an inflammatory type of neutrophil cell death called NETosis,” says first

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Fighting the Covid-19 ‘infodemic’: conspiration theories and fake news

Disinformation and conspiracy theories surrounding the global coronavirus pandemic have flooded the internet – often with an additional nudge from world leaders and celebrities – presenting a challenge for health authorities, social media platforms, journalists, fact-checkers and concerned citizens worldwide. US health officials scrambled this week to put out a fire started by President Donald Trump when he suggested in his Thursday press briefing that injecting disinfectant

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FDA OKs ADHD Video Game Therapy for Emergency Release During the Pandemic

In response to U.S. stay-at-home orders, the FDA has cleared the way for the emergency release of several validated digital therapeutics including Endeavor™ (AKL-TO1), a digital attention treatment from Akili Interactive. Endeavor™, a computer game experience that aims to improve attention function in children ages 8-12 with primarily inattentive or combined-type ADHD, is now available

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For WHO “No evidence” that recovered COVID-19 patients cannot be reinfected, warning governments against issuing “immunity passports”

The World Health Organization (WHO) said that there was currently “no evidence” that people who have recovered from COVID-19 and have antibodies are protected from a second coronavirus infection. In a scientific brief, the United Nations agency warned governments against issuing “immunity passports” or “risk-free certificates” to people who have been infected as their accuracy

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A real-time dashboard of clinical trials for COVID-19

In response to the global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emergency, clinical trial research assessing the efficacy and safety of clinical candidate interventions to treat COVID-19 are emerging at an unprecedented rate. As of April 21, 2020, well over 500 clinical trials have been registered at the various international and national clinical trial registry sites.  Most

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