Vaccine makes it through first hurdle, setback for antibody tests and much more in the fifth Covid-19 report. We point you to the latest quality science on the pandemic.
Vaccine makes it through first hurdle, setback for antibody tests and much more in the fifth Covid-19 report. We point you to the latest quality science on the pandemicof the number of registered deaths in South Africa. This is vital to see the effect of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic because deaths officially assigned to Covid-19 will be an underestimate.
Between March 9 and April 30, 119 cases of Covid-19 were identified at the hospital – 39 patients and 80 staff. Fifteen of the 39 patients died.Peer-reviewed journal The Lancet has published the first phase of findings of a Covid-19 vaccine trial. The study found no evidence of the benefit of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine when used either alone or with a macrolide, and patients receiving these drugs were slightly more likely to die.
The study authors place the findings in context: “These preliminary findings support the use of remdesivir for patients who are hospitalised with Covid-19 and require supplemental oxygen therapy. However, given high mortality despite the use of remdesivir, it is clear that treatment with an antiviral drug alone is not likely to be sufficient.
“Instead, recurrent Sars-CoV-2 mutations currently in circulation appear to be either neutral or weakly deleterious [bad for the virus itself],” the researchers write., which also had not yet been peer-reviewed, researchers analysed sewage in an American city for coronavirus ribonucleic acid .
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