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GISAID | Official hCoV-19 Reference Sequence
Source: https://www.gisaid.org/references/hcov-19-reference-sequence/ hCoV-19/Wuhan/WIV04/2019 (WIV04) is the official reference sequence employed by GISAID (EPI_ISL_402124). WIV04 was chosen because of its high-quality genome sequence and because it represented the consensus of a handful of [...]
VACCINES | Resources, Production Scales and Time Required for Producing RNA Vaccines for the Global Pandemic Demand
Abstract To overcome pandemics, such as COVID-19, vaccines are urgently needed at very high volumes. Here we assess the techno-economic feasibility of producing RNA vaccines for the demand associated with [...]
Public Citizen | How to Make Enough Vaccines for The World in One Year
How to Make Enough Vaccine for the World in One Year - Public Citizen What would it take to produce enough coronavirus vaccine for the world in one year? In [...]
Center for Global Development | Three New Estimates of India’s All-Cause Excess Mortality during the COVID-19 Pandemic
India lacks an authoritative estimate of the death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic. We report excess mortality estimates from three different data sources from the pandemic’s start through June 2021. [...]
JOURNAL OF CONTROLLED RELEASE | The dawn of mRNA vaccines: The COVID-19 case
Abstract In less than one year since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, two mRNA-based vaccines, BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273, were granted the first historic authorization for emergency use, while another [...]
LEARN ABOUT Betacoronavirus and Sarbecovirus; Severe acute respiratory syndrome–related coronavirus (including SARS-CoV-2)
Outbreaks of pathogens is inevitable, continuous and increasing. Now is the right time to invest in pandemic preparedness... Table 1: Major Infectious Disease Outbreaks in the Past Two Decades Year [...]
NATURE | Broad sarbecovirus neutralization by a human monoclonal antibody
Abstract The recent emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOC)1–10 and the recurrent spillovers of coronaviruses11,12 in the human population highlight the need for broadly neutralizing antibodies that are not affected by [...]
FACE THE NATION | Dr. Gottlieb warns for the unvaccinated the Delta variant will be “most serious virus” in their lifetime | Two choices: (1) get vaccinated. (2) get infected.
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, predicted Sunday July 18 on Meet the Press: “This virus is so contagious, this variant is so contagious ... [...]
Carl Bildt | The Variant Threat Is Real
The Variant Threat Is Real. Rather than translating their own COVID-19 vaccination successes into a renewed global push to end the pandemic, rich countries are becoming complacent while the rest [...]
medRxiv | Impact of circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants on mRNA vaccine-induced immunity in uninfected and previously infected individuals
Abstract The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants with mutations in major neutralizing antibody-binding sites can affect humoral immunity induced by infection or vaccination (1-6). We analysed the development of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody [...]
G20 HLIP | A Global Deal for Our Pandemic Age | G20 High Level Independent Panel on Financing the Global Commons for Pandemic Preparedness and Response
A Global Deal for Our Pandemic Age - Download the Report Report of the G20 High Level Independent Panel on Financing the Global Commons for Pandemic Preparedness and Response Source: [...]
U.S. Surgeon General | Confronting Health Misinformation | The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on Building a Healthy Information Environment
U.S. Surgeon General, Vice Admiral Vivek Murthy: "I am urging all Americans to help slow the spread of health misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Health misinformation is a [...]
THE NEW YORK TIMES | See How Rich Countries Got to the Front of the Vaccine Line | UNICEF Prices and Projected Production Capacity
More than half a billion vaccine doses have been administered worldwide so far, and well over three-quarters of them have been used by the world’s richest countries. The reason, experts [...]
BBC NEWS | Covid: UK daily cases pass 50,000 for first time since January
More than 50,000 daily coronavirus cases have been reported in the UK for the first time since mid-January. There were 51,870 cases recorded - the highest figure since 15 January [...]
REUTERS` | THE GUARDIAN | ‘They’re killing people’: Biden slams Facebook for Covid disinformation
False claims about vaccines has proliferated on the social network, and on other sites including Twitter and YouTube, says president Joe Biden says ‘the only pandemic we have is among [...]
CELL & HOST MICROBE | SnapShot: SARS-CoV-2 antibodies
Monoclonal antibody therapies hold great promise for COVID-19; however, the recent emergence and spread of escape variants threaten to limit their value. Shown here are structural and linear representations of [...]
Center for Countering Digital Hate | The Disinformation Dozen | Why platforms must act on twelve leading online anti-vaxxers
About 12 people are producing 65% of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms Just twelve anti-vaxxers are responsible for almost two-thirds of anti-vaccine content circulating on social media platforms. This [...]
4,066,605 COVID-19 DEAD. JULY 16, 2021.
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CELL | Longitudinal analysis shows durable and broad immune memory after SARS-CoV-2 infection with persisting antibody responses and memory B and T cells
Highlights Most recovered COVID-19 patients mount broad, durable immunity after infection Neutralizing antibodies show a bi-phasic decay with half-lives >200 days Spike IgG+ memory B cells increase and persist post-infection Durable [...]
EClinicalMedicine | The Lancet | Characterizing long COVID in an international cohort: 7 months of symptoms and their impact
Identification of over 200 long Covid symptoms prompts call for UK screening programme - UCL News Patients who experience long Covid have reported more than 200 symptoms across 10 organ [...]
NATURE | Systems vaccinology of the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine in humans
Abstract The emergency use authorization of two mRNA vaccines in less than a year since the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 represents a landmark in vaccinology1,2. Yet, how mRNA vaccines stimulate the [...]
NATURE | A correlate of protection for SARS-CoV-2 vaccines is urgently needed | After the pandemic: perspectives on the future trajectory of COVID-19
Recent studies suggest that neutralizing antibodies could serve as a correlate of protection for vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 in humans. Adaptive humoral and cellular immune responses to infection are typically pathogen [...]
SCIENCE | Important Discoveries | COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2
From scientific reports on COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 we have curated a handful: An interactive website tracking COVID-19 vaccine development - The Lancet July 8; Immunity; Correlates of Protection A correlate [...]
THE ECONOMIST | Coats of many colours | The unvaccinated are at risk as evolution accelerates the covid-19 pandemic | Research is unravelling the virus’s deep secrets
The Economist - Jul 3rd 2021 For much of 2020 the covid-19 virus was, in genetic terms, a little dull. Early in the pandemic a version of sars-cov-2 that was [...]
OPINION | Cartoons | Laughter Can be Good for Health
For laughs. Not a statement of opinion. Reprinted for educational purposes and social benefit, not for profit. Deadly Serious: Outspoken Anti-Vaxers DEAD of COVID-19 [...]
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