The spreading time can be a major difference between flu and Covid, because Covid spreads faster than flu. And most flu unless sever will not show muscle aches. The sudden loss of smell and...
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Why 2 Deoxy D glucose has been claimed as effective drug for covid-19?
Recently 2Deoxy D glucose is catching the media attention claiming that it is more effective in reducing and recovering from covid-19 infection. Strictly speaking it is still under clinical trials. Research has been done...
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WHO confirms, B1617 variant found in 17 countries causing surge in second wave
By the evidence of sequences of samples uploaded in open access data base GISAID(the Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza Data), WHO confirms that atleast 17 countries are showing B1617 variant in the second...
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Non detectable multimutations is a serious concern in second wave in India
RT-PCR seemed to be gold standard for detections of nCoV-2 during first wave taking reference as the SARS-CoV-2 strain genome. But the mutations occurring at a very fast pace during these months and surge...
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Criteria for Covishield vaccine of Oxford approval in India
Oxford Covishield has been approved for dosage in India due to certain reasons that makes it eligible to be used in this pandemic time. As it is well known that this vaccine was developed ...
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New variant of COVID-19 status in UK
United Kingdom has raised alarm due to the new variant VUI-202012/01 or B.1.1.7. It is reported that this mutated form has great rate of transmission from human to human at a speed of 70%....
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COVID-19 stays with us for 2 more years
World Health Organisation’s Chief Scientist, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan says that, pandemic situation is not going to change overnight even after the vaccine comes. We need to prepare ourselves physically as well as mentally for...
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RT-PCR, a targeted diagnostic tool for SARS-COV-2 or not ?
Charite, a Germany’s most influential virologist in respect of COVID-19 employee of Christian Drosten said that they did not use purified particles for testing virus. MagNA pure 96 system (Roche,Penzberg,Germany) was use to extract...
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Potential flaws in Gam-COVID-19 ( Russian Vaccine )
Gam-COVID-19 is claiming to the first COVID-19 Vaccine even having no scientific data about its safety or efficacy by Russia. Russia had recently published the clinical trials data in medical journal The Lancet. The...
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Pandemic worsens if vaccine rushes
Scientist in UK say that the nationalistic and capitalistic rush in being first to register vaccine may lead to get a vaccine with low efficacy. In this concern UK’s Oxford / AstraZeneca vaccine trials...
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