This Wall Street Journal article discusses efforts from scientists and billionaires to reallocate economic resources to analyze the various effects of the coronavirus. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-secret-group-of-scientists-and-billionaires-pushing-trump-on-a-covid-19-plan-11587998993?mod=trending_now_3
This is a short overview about the BCG vaccine and its possible ability to protect from coronavirus infection. It includes a fascinating graph that compares the COVID-19 rates in different countries around the world with different rates of BCG vaccination showing a possible trend in which populations with higher rates of BCG vaccination have had … Read more
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
Authors: Rui Zhang, Xuebin Wang, Leng Ni, Xiao Di, Baitao Ma, Shuai Niu, Changwei Liu, and Russel J. ReiterPublished (online) Mar 23, 2020 in Journal of Life SciencesDOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2020.117583
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/04/15/coronavirus-vaccine-prospects GSK (bringing the spike protein) and Sanofi (bringing the adjuvant) are going to collaborate on vaccine development. Johnson and Johnson have a stricter timeline planning first-in-human trials in September, while Pfizer with BioNTech is possibly starting human trials in August. The NRDD counts around 78 real vaccine programs, with a diversity of approaches. There … Read more
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/record-setting-speed-vaccine-makers-take-their-first-shots-new-coronavirus An experimental vaccine made by Moderna, well-financed biotech, was created and tested in Haller, who received an outpour of appreciation. Moderna and China’s CanSino Biologies are the first to launch small clinical trials of vaccines against COVID-19. Vaccines group into eight different platforms including old standbys and technology. Vaccines against related coronaviruses that cause … Read more
There is a fairly fresh article that was just posted about the benefits from compounds in garlic essential oil that could possibly treat/prevent COVID-19. There is still much research to be done in this hypothesis but it is a very interesting read. Here is a great summary of the article written by Danielle Vaamonde ’20 … Read more
Article link: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/covid-19-vaccine-protects-monkeys-new-coronavirus-chinese-biotech-reports Author: Jon CohenPublished on April 23, 2020 in Science Magazine Amidst the race to discover a COVID-19 vaccine, Cohen reports that the private Chinese company, Sinovac Biotech, has developed a promising candidate. The company’s vaccine is not only the first to prevent COVID-19 in monkeys but also shows dose-dependent effects. In other … Read more
This article in the news section of Nature Research discusses current advances in antibody testing for COVID-19 and the limitations that come with it. While many politicians and others eager to open businesses back up and end social distancing are claiming that we are close to having antibody testing which will be able to determine … Read more
