Sarah Gilbert, part of the Oxford-AstraZeneca team at Oxford University said that they were already working on a new jab that is more effective against the South African-discovered variant. "It looks very likely that we can have a new version ready to use in the autu...
Theoretically, a first wave could have been caused by a yet unknown SARS-CoV variant preceding the current lineages. As long as uncertainties regarding the exact origin and the dynamics of the SARS-CoV2 infection exist, we propose out-of-the-box thinking also concerning its evolutionary timeline...
The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention published the epidemiological data of COVID-19 in China based on an earlier dataset.20Of the 72,314 “suspected” COVID-19 cases reported in mainland China, 44,672 (61.8%) were diagnosed to have COVID-19. Among the “suspected” and c...
New data from Novavax's ongoing research on its updated XBB.1.5 COVID-19 vaccine in participants who previously received an mRNA vaccine showed robust neutralizing antibody titers for the XBB.1.5 subvariant as well as for the currently circulating JN.1 subvariant. Data also showed that the vac...
Additionally, the variant reported must impair the gene function and lastly the patient specific phenotype should be confirmed in relevant cell culture or model organisms using Knock in or Knock out techniques ̶ facilitated by the novel CRISPR technology among other suitable validation techniques (...
Shorter incubation period among COVID-19 cases with the BA.1 Omicron variant. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022;19(10):6330. doi:10.3390/ijerph19106330PubMedGoogle Scholar 113. SARS-CoV-2 variant with lineage B.1.351 clusters investigation team. Linked transmission chains of imported ...
with the emergence of the Omicron variant, a new verdict had emerged. Vaccines were unable to halt transmission in the presence of escape variants; thus, here too, mandates failed to meet the ethical pre-requisite of benefit to others, as a vaccinated person could still spread the virus. A...
NTD, N-terminal domain; VOC, variant of concern. The figure is adapted from https://virological.org/t/mutations-arising-in-sars-cov-2-spike-on-sustained-human-to-human-transmission-and-human-to-animal-passage/578. Full size image Infected animals can be the source of two evolutionarily ...
U.S. President Joe Biden is to announce the deployments on Thursday when discussing steps the administration is taking to address a surge in infections driven by the Omicron variant, according to USA Today. "His remarks come as hospitalizations for COVID-19 are setting records," said the repor...
Recent studies showed that complete vaccination was effective against SARS-CoV-2 even for emerging variants; and infection was significantly lower among vaccinated individuals than non-vaccinated16,17,18,19. In contrast, several studies showed low vaccine efficacy against Delta (B.1.617.2) variant co...