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Monoclonal Antibodies as COVID-19 Treatment

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http://apjai-journal.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/5_AP-200220-0773.pdf This article discusses how monoclonal antibody treatments for other strains of COVID, SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV can inform future treatments for COVID-19. Monoclonal antibodies are antibodies cloned from one parent cell that all bind to the same thing; essentially antibodies specifically against COVID-19. The study concludes that while monoclonal antibodies are a promising treatment for … Read more

COVID-19 and cancer

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7118606 This article discusses the impact that COVID-19 has had on cancer patients and cancer research. People with cancer are at a higher risk for the disease, and are less likely to continue to be treated for cancer if they contract COVID-19, as that becomes the focus. The closure of universities and the shift of … Read more

Clinical Characteristics of COVID-19 Patients

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1386653220301050?via%3Dihub This article breaks down the clinical characteristics of 225 patients who were hospitalized with COVID-19 in Wuhan China. The average age was 50, which was lower than I thought it would be. The most interesting part of this was that all the patients showed lung infiltrates, but only 56% actually exhibited the cough symptoms … Read more

Link Between Childhood Immunizations and COVID-19 Resistence

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306987720304837?via%3Dihub The above article talks about how young children have a smaller chance of being infected, and if they do they are more likely to shrug it off. The article posits that this is because vaccines given to children between infancy and 6 years old like varicella, Hepatitis B, MMR, Poliomyelitis, and rotavirus may interact … Read more

COVID-19 and Hypertension

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https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2763803 Coronavirus apparently has higher morbidity and mortality rates in people with hypertension, and this study posits why this might be. They believe that it might have to do with two medications used to treat hypertension: angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs). These both cause overexpression of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), which … Read more