Newsweek reports:
Pharmaceutical manufacturer Johnson & Johnson announced Friday that early trials of a COVID-19 vaccine showed a 98 percent success rate in showing a boost in the immune system. According to research from Johnson & Johnson, the vaccine enabled 98 percent of those who took it to create antibodies that fight off the coronavirus infection. Those neutralizing antibodies were present 29…
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A New Theory Asks: Could a Mask Be a Crude ‘Vaccine’?
Iwastheone shares a report from The New York Times: As the world awaits the arrival of a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine, a team of researchers has come forward with a provocative new theory: that masks might help to crudely immunize some people against the virus. The unproven idea, described in a commentary published Tuesday in the New England Journal of…
More Covid-19 Reinfections Found, But Researchers Urge Caution
That Covid-19 reinfection in Hong Kong was followed by similar reports in Belgium and the Netherlands. It was announced today that a 27-year-old woman in Karnataka, India also tested positive for the disease a second time (though the government is still seeking confirmation), and now researchers in Nevada are also reporting a “likely” case of reinfection. The health-news site Stat reports:…
Russian coronavirus vaccine produces immune response in early trials
Russia’s candidate coronavirus vaccine prompted the immune system and didn’t show serious adverse events, according to early data. Source: https://www.livescience.com/russia-coronavirus-vaccine-early-results.html
Russia Claims To Have Registered World’s First COVID-19 Vaccine
New submitter Hmmmmmm shares a report from CNBC: Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the registration of what Russia claims to be the first vaccine for the coronavirus in the world and said one of his daughters had already taken it. “Although I know that it works quite effectively, it forms a stable immunity and, I repeat, has passed all the necessary…
Oxford vaccine prompts immune response, shows promise in early results
The Oxford vaccine triggered participants to build up immune cells against the virus without causing any severe reactions. Source: https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-oxford-vaccine-shows-early-promise.html
Covid-19 news: Oxford vaccine is safe and induces immune response
The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scientist and essential information about the covid-19 pandemic Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2237475-covid-19-news-oxford-vaccine-is-safe-and-induces-immune-response/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Covid-19 Immunity From Antibodies May Last Only Months, New Study Suggests
CNN shares some bad news. “After people are infected with the novel coronavirus, their natural immunity to the virus could decline within months, a new pre-print paper suggests.” The paper was co-authored by 37 researchers from seven different institutions:
The paper, released on the medical server medrxiv.org on Saturday and not yet published in a peer-reviewed medical journal, suggests that antibody responses…
DNA Inherited From Neanderthals May Increase Risk of Covid-19
A stretch of DNA linked to Covid-19 was passed down from Neanderthals 60,000 years ago, according to a new study. From a report: Scientists don’t yet know why this particular segment increases the risk of severe illness from the coronavirus. But the new findings, which were posted online on Friday and have not yet been published in a scientific journal, show…
Coronavirus vaccine developed in China shows promise after early study in 100 people
A potential coronavirus vaccine developed in China appeared safe and able to generate an immune response after an early trial in more than 100 people. Source: https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-vaccine-adenovirus-china.html