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There has been a huge spike in cases in China, so the country stopped publishing daily COVID data.
China’s COVID-19 death toll is only reported from deaths from pneumonia or respiratory failure, a Chinese health official said. This comes as the country eases coronavirus-related restrictions following nationwide protests over its heavy economic and social toll. The country will begin distributing Pfizer’s Paxlovid to Beijing’s community health centres in the coming days, state media…
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Get ready to guess the viral variant.
US scientist Anthony Fauci said that a new variant of coronavirus called BA.5, which accounted for over one in three new COVID-19 infections nationwide last week, has bumped BA.5 off as “the dominant variant”. He added that most people feel somewhere in the middle of November that they’ll wind up being a substantial proportion and…
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There is no Pandemic of the Unvaccinated Anymore.
US has the most COVID-19-related deaths in the last three years, making it the country’s third leading cause of death. Around 300 Americans are dying from COVID-19 daily, making it the country’s third-leading cause of death, the US Centers For Disease Control and Prevention said. Only about 14% of eligible Americans have got an updated…
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China is known for its obsession with Zero Covid but the Trauma Lingers.
The number of cases of coronavirus in China has crossed 1 lakh, authorities said on Tuesday. China has reported more than 6 lakh cases of the virus, of which about 3 lakh cases are “very mild”, the National Health Commission (NHC) said. The death toll from COVID-19 in the country rose to six after a…
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China could see nearly a million deaths as it leaves zero-covid, says the study.
Chinese authorities have repeatedly insisted that the COVID-19 battle against the virus remains “winnable”. In a state media interview, a doctor said that people who tested positive for COVID-19 but had no or mild symptoms shouldn’t need to take medication to recover. Health workers in the capital were also grappling with a surge in emergency…
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It doesn’t mean what it used to mean in China.
China’s COVID-19 expert Zhong Jianhua has said that the disease was spreading rapidly in the country. Zhong said that the government’s top priority now should be booster shots, particularly for the elderly and others most at risk, especially with China’s Lunar New Year coming up next month. Zhong had earlier said that the coronavirus was…
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Pfizer/BioNTech say that the updated Covid-19 booster protects against Omicron subvariants.
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said that he hopes the US’ new COVID-19 vaccine booster will encourage people to seek it. “As we head into…holiday season, we hope these updated data will encourage people to seek out…COVID-19 bivalent booster as soon as they are eligible,” Bourla added. Pfizer and BioNTech are developing a COVID-19 vaccine that…
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People in the Chinese diaspora use the social network to protest.
Thousands of people took to the streets of China’s Wuhan city to protest against the government’s zero-COVID-19 policies. The protests, called the Sitong Bridge protest, have taken place in several parts of China and around the world in the past week. There have been eight deaths due to COVID-19 in China so far.
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Paxlovid is the best treatment for coronaviruses.
Paxlovid, a Prohibitor of Severe COVID-19, is the most effective way to prevent it, a study found. Paxlovid can reduce the risk of severe disease in patients with COVID-19, it said. Paxlovid can be used to treat patients over 65 who are eligible for the drug as they tested positive since January 2022 and are…
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The human body has been affected by infections, including the CoV-2 strain.
A COVID-19 complex model was constructed using the NeoCoV RBD–Bat37ACE2 complex structures which were manually docked into the refined maps using UCSF Chimera and further corrected by real-space refinement in Coot. Reference-free 2D classification was performed using Relion and 3D classification without symmetry was applied using a MERS-CoV cryo-EM map61. A final reconstruction of PDF-2180…
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Fight antimicrobial resistance with a scuplture-style mobilize.
A new coronavirus variant, XBB, has emerged in Singapore and is associated with cases of West Nile virus, the country’s top health authority has said. According to its website, XBB is similar to COVID-19 viruses found in the UK and the US. However, it appears to be a different virus from the one that has…
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After the debut of their pandemic vaccine, it’s getting started.
Moderna is in advanced talks to buy an experimental vaccine developed by BioNTech. Moderna and BioNTech said that they have agreed to combine their efforts to develop a vaccine against multiple Viruses, including Marburg and COVID-19. Moderna said it plans to begin human trials of the vaccine by the end of this year, adding it…
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Is the world able to save a million species?
A new report by an Australian think tank has claimed that COVID-19, which accounts for over half of the global emissions of greenhouse gases, is coming from anywhere in Earth’s atmosphere. It added that COVID-19 is not only caused by COVID-19 but also by other environmental pollutants. The report further suggested that COVID-19 is being…
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Side effects from the Covid-19 vaccine have links to higher antibody response.
The COVID-19 variant Omicron B.4 accounted for almost one in three new infections in the US last week. The variant BA.5 also accounted for 49.6% of new infections in the country, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said. Co-circulating Omicron B.4 has been linked to an increased risk of neurological problems…