MIT team races to fill Covid-19-related ventilator shortage
"An ad hoc team of engineers and doctors has developed a low-cost, open-source alternative, now ready for rapid production." Source:...
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FDA authorizes the use of blood purification system to treat the ‘cytokine storm’ in COVID-19 patients
Source: FDA Newsroom The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for a blood purification system to treat patients...
A Collection of Diagnostic Protocols For Testing Coronavirus
Pasteur Institute’s Real-Time RT-PCR protocol for detecting SARS-CoV2 using primers against two RNA-dependent-RNA-polymerase targets (IP2 and IP4) ...
Some Interesting Recourses for Kids During Quarantine Time
Amidst COVID-19 pandemic keep kids busy is a difficult task. Therefore our team came up with a list of activities...
WHO declares BCG vaccination do not provide protection against Coronaviruses
There is no evidence that the Bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccine (BCG) protects people against infection with COVID-19 virus. Source: WHO Press...
New Rutgers Saliva Test for Coronavirus Gets FDA Approval
"Emergency use authorization granted for new biomaterial collection approach" Source: Rutgers News The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted emergency use...
Anti-clotting Drugs to Save Lives of COVID-19 Patients in Ventilators
Source: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre Press Release "If positive, findings could alleviate expected shortage of ventilators for patients with...
Can good viruses kill the bad ones, like COVID-19??
Source: Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut for Molecular Pharmacology (FMP) Press Release "Phage shell docks on and inhibits the influenza virus (visualization Barth van...
‘Hopeful’ Results From Human Study of Gilead’s antiviral drug, Remdesivir
Source: Gilead Press Release "Remdesivir treatment resulted in clinical improvement in 68 percent of patients in this limited data set"...
Genetic network analysis reveals the early evolutionary pathway of COVID-19 pandemic
Source: University of Cambridge, Research News Study charts the 'incipient supernova' of COVID-19 through genetic mutations as it spread from China and...
Drug Originally Meant for Ebola is Effective Against a Key Enzyme of Coronavirus That Causes COVID-19
"Remdesivir already in human trials in search for the treatment of deadly disease" Source: GILLIAN RUTHERFORD | University of Alberta...
Loss of Smell and Taste Validated as COVID-19 Symptoms in Patients with High Recovery Rate
"Study suggests clinicians should include sensory impairment as a standard screening measure" Source: Originally written by Jeanna Vazquez of University...