China has recently further relaxed its COVID-19 restrictions, a major shift from its "dynamic zero-COVID" policy. Experts said the symptoms of the prevalent Omicron variant were much milder than other strains despite being more contagious. As a result, the country's ...
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COVID-19DisinfectantEthanolObjectives Coronavirus COVID-19 is spreading very fast in Brazil, requiring innovative strategies for the fast deployment of disinfectants. Panic in population triggered by COVID-19 has caused a shortage of alcohol-based hand sanitizers and disinfectants in many cities of ...
The COVID-19 pandemic caused more than 800,000 infections and 40,000 deaths by the end of March 2020. However, some of the basic epidemiological parameters, such as the exponential epidemic growth rate and R0 are debated. We developed an inference approach to control for confounding factors in...
The COVID-19 XPRIZE and the need for scalable, fast, and widespread testingdoi:10.1038/s41587-020-0655-4Matthew J. MacKayAnna C. HookerEbrahim AfshinnekooMarc SalitChristopher E. MasonNature Biotechnology
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The main COVID-19 strain currently in Guangzhou is XBB1.9.1, he said. "Therefore, the most important task in containing the spread of COVID-19 is the research and development of vaccines and medicines." It is also necessary to develop vaccines and medicines that can cover the XBB variant...
The FDA is looking to quickly approve Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine after it was unanimously backed by a panel of experts. Yesterday’s advisory panel meeting voted 20-0 in favour of approving Moderna’s vaccine and although the vote is non-binding, you could probably bet your house on t...
CHENGDU, March 3 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese university has developed a COVID-19 test kit the size of a lighter that allows people to test themselves at home for virus infection using nose swab samples, with results in 30 minutes. Once put on the market, the price of the portable nucleic ac...
Therefore, the worldwide transmission of COVID-19 provides SARS-CoV-2 an abundant opportunity to experience fast mutations. Another important mechanism for SARS-CoV-2 evolution is natural selection, which makes the virus more infectious while less virulent, in general [9,10]. It has been ...