Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have identified 27 protein biomarkers that could be used to predict whether a patient with COVID-19 is likely to become severely ill with the disease. People infected with SARS-CoV-2,…
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Plasma from recovered coronavirus patients DOES help those suffering
Coronavirus patients treated with plasma from people who recovered from the infection are nearly TWICE as likely to survive than those who didn’t get the experimental treatment, study finds Convalescent plasma therapy is when the liquid portion of blood is…
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First prospective study of critically ill COVID-19 patients in NYC
The largest prospective study of adult COVID-19 patients in USA to date confirms that critical illness is common among hospitalized patients (22%, 257/1150). Critically ill COVID-19 patients frequently require mechanical ventilation (79%, 203/257) and death rates among such patients are…
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Presymptomatic virus patients can contaminate environments: study
Coronavirus was detected on several surfaces in hotel rooms where two presymptomatic Chinese students were quarantined before being diagnosed with the disease, according to a study released on Monday. For the study, published in the Emerging Infectious Diseases journal of…
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Mauritius says battle ‘won’ as all virus patients discharged
Coronavirus. Credit: European Centers for Disease Control Mauritius on Wednesday declared wary victory in its first battle with coronavirus, saying it had “zero” active patients and had not documented a single new case in 17 days. The Indian Ocean island…
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So how many patients have died after catching coronavirus in hospital?
So how many patients have died after catching coronavirus in hospital? Grieving families demand answers after relatives who went in for standard treatment never came home Amanda Strudwick caught Covid-19 while being treated in hospital for cancer Comedian Eddie Large…
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Coronavirus found in patients’ semen in small Chinese study
The virus that causes COVID-19 can be found in semen, Chinese researchers report in a small study that doesn’t address whether sexual transmission is possible. Doctors detected the virus in semen from six of 38 men hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19….
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Recovered patients who tested positive for COVID-19 likely not reinfected
More than 260 COVID-19 patients in South Korea tested positive for the coronavirus after having recovered, raising alarm that the virus might be capable of “reactivating” or infecting people more than once. But infectious disease experts now say both are…
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Personalized device could support multiple COVID-19 patients from a single ventilator
As the pandemic swept across the nation in March, so did urgent questions about the virus’ potential strain on the healthcare system. Among top concerns: whether the nation’s hospitals had enough ventilators to provide breathing support to critically ill patients…
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Caring for cancer patients in the COVID-19 era
In Nature Medicine, the seven comprehensive cancer centers of Cancer Core Europe (CCE), including the Netherlands Cancer Institute and Cancer Research UK Cambridge center, have shared how they rapidly reorganised their oncological healthcare systems during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this…
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