Against the background of mass vaccinations in Britain, people under 50 have the chance of dying from the delta strain of the coronavirus (formerly called “Indian”) has dropped to 0.0097%. Writes about this in Twitter Public Health England virologist Meegan Kell, citing a new report from that health organization. “Okay, and before someone writes:” […]
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Cuba claims impressive efficacy of its Abdala anti-coronavirus vaccine
Cuba has announced the interim results of phase III clinical trials for its Abdala anti-coronavirus vaccine, which is administered three times a month (on days 0, 14 and 28). The effectiveness of a biological product with such a scheme is over 92%, according to the state-owned BioCubafarma Group. They did not specify what this […]
The risk of hospitalization from the Δ-strain of coronavirus is almost three times higher than from the “first” mutant
Coronavirus disease from the delta strain (formerly referred to in the media as “Indian”) leads to a significant increase in the risk of hospitalization. After checking cases with the disease from March 29 to May 20 and decrypting 38,805 samples of the virus genomes, this was the conclusion reached by British health care, according to […]
Peru is the world leader in deaths from coronavirus per capita
Peru has become the world leader in the death rate from the coronavirus disease COVID-19 per capita after the South American country adjusted statistics, resulting in the number of deaths almost tripled. The Voice of America writes about this with reference to data from Johns Hopkins University. An earlier record figure was in Hungary […]
CoronaVac vaccine against the “Amazon” strain of coronavirus: results from Brazil
The effectiveness of the CoronaVac vaccine from Sinovaс Biotech in the country affected by the “Brazilian” strain of coronavirus after two doses reaches only 42% protection against COVID-19 with symptoms. We are talking about the effectiveness in the elderly from 70 years and older, write in the preprint of the study on medRxiv. For […]
For the first time in history. Blind 40-year-old man partially restored his sight – helped by genetics
For the first time in the history of medicine, genetic engineering was used to restore partial vision in a blind person: by “correcting” the ganglion cells of the retina, American scientists made them photosensitive again. The research is published in the journal Nature. A 58-year-old man went blind at the age of 18 as […]
How a single dose of Pfizer and AstraZeneca protects against hospitalization with covid: a report from the UK
Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca anti-coronavirus vaccines have shown roughly the same effectiveness in protecting the oldest people from COVID-19 a few weeks after a single dose. This is the conclusion reached by British researchers, their report was published in the journal The BMJ. The report included data on 156,930 vaccinated participants ≥70 years old who […]
Lithuania sends 100,000 doses of coronavirus vaccine to Ukraine. Which one is unknown
Lithuania will donate 100,000 doses of anti-coronavirus vaccine to Ukraine. Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis announced this on Twitter. According to him, the country’s government has “just” made a decision to transfer vaccine batches to the Eastern Partnership countries. In addition to Ukraine, Georgia (15,000 doses) and Moldova (10,000) will receive the biological product. […]
Coronavirus. What should be the second generation vaccine: the development of American biologists
To maximize protection against coronavirus, the next generation of vaccines should target not only the S-protein of viral particles, but also against the N-protein in which the genetic code of the pathogen is “packed”. The authors of two candidate vaccines write about this in the preprints of preclinical studies. Microbiologists from two universities in […]
Israel clarifies the effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech anti-coronavirus vaccine
The vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech a week or more after the second dose is 95.3% effective against coronavirus infection. Updated estimates of the effectiveness of a biological product in the fight against the COVID-19 epidemic in Israel were published by The Lancet. The authors used surveillance data from the first four months of the national […]