The explosive spread of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China, was driven by people whose disease was never diagnosed, a new study has found, suggesting that people with symptoms so mild that they may not have known they were sick unwittingly spread disease in China and ultimately around the world. Jeffrey Shaman, an infectious-disease expert at Columbia
The worst-case figures are what would happen if no action is taken to slow the virus, which spreads person to person. Disease modelers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention project that as much as 65% of the American population could eventually be infected by the new coronavirus, according to the New York Times.
A letter, recently published on Lancet, suggests that ACE inhibitors, ARBs and ibuprofen results in upregulation of ACE2 receptors. Human pathogenic coronaviruses (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus [SARS-CoV] and SARSCoV-2) bind to their target cells through angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), which is expressed by epithelial cells of the lung, intestine, kidney, and blood vessels. The
INFUSIONS OF ANTIBODY-LADEN BLOOD HAVE BEEN USED WITH REPORTED SUCCESS IN PRIOR OUTBREAKS, INCLUDING THE SARS EPIDEMIC AND THE 1918 FLU PANDEMIC Countries fighting outbreaks of the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19 should consider using the antibodies of people who have recovered from infection to treat cases and provide short-term immunity—lasting weeks to months—to critical health care
Pluristem Therapeutics Inc., a leading regenerative medicine company developing a platform of novel biological products, today announced it has signed a collaborative agreement with the BIH Center for Regenerative Therapy (BCRT) and the Berlin Center for Advanced Therapies (BeCAT) at Charite’ University of Medicine Berlin to expand its existing framework and research agreement and conduct
Coronavirus statistics: is Italy the new China? After several weeks of fighting the epidemic, the situation in China finally seems to come back under control. But can we say that even in our country we will see similar results? How are they similar and how do their situations differ? We therefore report the statistics on
