Thread on testing & treatment research for COVID-19
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There's finally an FDA-approved covid test
www.fda.gov
FDA Permits Marketing of First SARS-CoV-2 Diagnostic Test Using Traditional Premarket Review Process
BioFire Diagnostics LLC granted De Novo for its BioFire Respiratory Panel 2.1.
I am not sure this is true. The CEO of Novavax said the attack rate for infection by the new South African variant in the South African population has been essentially equal between persons previously infected by the original variant and persons not previously infected. He didn’t say anything about the illness severity comparison.
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Is RaTG13 a real thing ? Has anybody other than the purported discoverer of this virus ever found it in nature ?
I would have to imagine anytime you've been admitted to the hospital, for any reason, that this sub-population would test that their organ efficiency problems than those who were not recently in the hospital.
good article:
www.nytimes.com
Researchers Are Hatching a Low-Cost Coronavirus Vaccine (Published 2021)
A new formulation entering clinical trials in Brazil, Mexico, Thailand and Vietnam could change how the world fights the pandemic.
good article:
Researchers Are Hatching a Low-Cost Coronavirus Vaccine (Published 2021)
A new formulation entering clinical trials in Brazil, Mexico, Thailand and Vietnam could change how the world fights the pandemic.
We should all be thankful for people like Dr. McLellan and many others who are at the forefront of fighting this virus.
good article:
Researchers Are Hatching a Low-Cost Coronavirus Vaccine (Published 2021)
A new formulation entering clinical trials in Brazil, Mexico, Thailand and Vietnam could change how the world fights the pandemic.
Yet not a single mention in the article about what the cost would be.
good article:
Researchers Are Hatching a Low-Cost Coronavirus Vaccine (Published 2021)
A new formulation entering clinical trials in Brazil, Mexico, Thailand and Vietnam could change how the world fights the pandemic.
Good research although I doubt it will have much effect on how the world fights this Covid 19 pandemic as based on what I read, they are ways off to get approval of a vaccine made that way for Covid-19. And considering the current production rates of P/M/AZ/J&J and soon to be Novavax combine with Russian Sputnik and the several the Chinese are putting out, the math says by the time they go through a Phase III trial and get results and get approved that all the aforementioned vaccine makers will have already have produced enough vaccine as is needed. So might be good research for a future vaccine similar to the way a lot of work was done a while back on mRNA that now is so important and relevant.
And when the world needs that next round of vaccinations this could be ready and available for so many of them to produce. Exciting stuff.
No doubt that the last year has advanced the medical community huge leaps and bounds as how to both make and produce vaccines and also just how to treat a new disease once somebody gets it. The treatment for Covid when somebody walks into a hospital today is light years better than a year ago. And all that knowledge will be used the next time anything like this ever happens again such that the medical response will be much better I would predict.
Unfortunately I am not sure on the political side if we have learned anything at all. As even with a years worth of data there is literally no agreement on masks, lockdowns, etc.....today versus a year ago.
