Sharon Peacock, Author provided The UK is a world leader in sequencing SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Of all the coronavirus genomes that have been sequenced in the world, nearly half have been sequenced by COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium (Cog-UK). The consortium began life on March 4 when Sharon …
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In this May 5, 2020 file photo a member of medical staff cares for a patient with coronavirus in the intensive care unit at the Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England. More than 100,000 people have died in the United Kingdom after contracting the coronavirus. That’s according to government figures …
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Trials need sufficient people to catch COVID-19 to accurately predict a vaccine’s effects – meaning thousands need to be involved. Credit: agsaz/Shutterstock Coronavirus vaccines are being administered. Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine was the first to finish the final stage of testing—known as phase 3—and the full results have been published. Having …
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Separated by a curtain, a person sleeps in a bed as mortuary workers prepare the body of an elderly person who died of COVID-19 before removing it from a nursing home in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020. Virus cases among the elderly are again on the rise across Europe, …
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A hospital worker takes a break on an outdoor walkway as the day shift comes to an end and night falls upon the La Timone hospital in Marseille, southern France, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020. France is more than two weeks into its second coronavirus lockdown, and intensive care wards have …
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by Adam Geller and Rishabh R. Jain In this Sept. 17, 2020 photo provided by Kapil Chaudhary shows pictures of Joginder Chaudhary and his mother Premlata Chaudhary sitting on a table during a Hindu mourning ceremony held at the family home in Jhantala, Madhya Pradesh, India. fter the virus killed …
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School districts across the United States had varying experiences with trying to get devices to every child at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. <figure class="image pull-none image-large"><a href="https://tr2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2020/09/11/0a715711-f5cf-4c33-906d-70ad73ca9492/resize/770x/8f06b3f4adc5a86a399b16a0a366308c/istock-1225545084.jpg" target="_blank" data-component="modalEnlargeImage" data-headline="<p></p>" data-credit="Image: SeventyFour, Getty Images/iStockPhoto" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><span class="img aspect-set " style="padding-bottom: 67%"><img src="https://tr2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2020/09/11/0a715711-f5cf-4c33-906d-70ad73ca9492/resize/770x/8f06b3f4adc5a86a399b16a0a366308c/istock-1225545084.jpg" class="https://www.techrepublic.com/" alt="Woman with child doing …
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Credit: Jeffrey Decoster “Know your enemy,” Sun Tzu, the great sage of war, wrote some 2,500 years ago. Today, as COVID-19 spreads around the globe, the greatest army of medical scientists ever assembled is bent on learning all it can, as fast as it can, about SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind …
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In April, more than three months before any coronavirus vaccine would enter large clinical trials, the mayor of a picturesque island town in the Pacific Northwest invited a microbiologist friend to vaccinate him. The exchange occurred on the mayor’s Facebook page, to the horror of several Friday Harbor residents following …
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Transmission electron microscope image from the first U.S. case of COVID-19. The spherical viral particles, colorized blue, contain cross-sections through the viral genome, seen as black dots. Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Hannah A. Bullock and Azaibi Tamin Using simulated components of the coronavirus’s distinctive spike proteins, Georgia …
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In late February, as the coronavirus spread around the world, Dr. Richard Hatchett, the head of an international nonprofit that gives money to vaccine developers, got on an important call to discuss vaccine candidates after his plane touched down at London’s Heathrow Airport. Executives from the Bill & Melinda Gates …
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This 2020 electron micrsocope image made available by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shows a Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 particle isolated from a patient, in a laboratory in Fort Detrick, Md. Coronaviruses, including the newest one, are named for the spikes that cover their outer surface like a …
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Doris Kelly, 57, sits in her home on Monday, June 29, 2020 in Ruffs Dale, Pa. Kelly was one of the first patients in a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center trial for COVID-19. “It felt like someone was sitting on my chest and I couldn’t get any air,” Kelley said …
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A man in quarantine is interviewed by a member of the National Mechanism to Prevent Torture (MNPT), as the institution visits a Catholic church property turned into a government-run shelter where citizens returning home are required by law to quarantine for two weeks and pass two consecutive COVID-19 tests, as …
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This article is part of Owning the Future, a series on how small businesses across the country are coping with the coronavirus pandemic. Dr. Cristiano Huscher has long used robotics and artificial intelligence for surgical procedures at the Policlinico Abano chain of hospitals in Italy. So when six doctors contracted …
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Credit: Harvard Medical School Why do some people fall ill from SARS-CoV-2 while others infected with the virus experience no symptoms? Why do some people develop neurological, cardiovascular or gastrointestinal symptoms while infection sticks to the respiratory system in others? Since older age and underlying health conditions put people at …
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