Vaccination

Moderna to deliver 25 mn vaccines to Australia by 2022

US pharmaceutical company Moderna on Wednesday agreed to deliver 25 million COVID-19 vaccine shots to Australia by the end of next year as the country deals with a lagging immunization campaign.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Taming the virus: US deaths hit lowest level in 10 months

COVID-19 deaths in the United States have tumbled to an average of around 600 per day—the lowest level in 10 months—with the number of lives lost dropping to single digits in well over half the states and, on some days, ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

COVID-19: Is obesity really more of a risk factor for men than women?

A new US study has added to the evidence that obesity is a risk factor for severe COVID-19. And in this paper, a particular finding has caught the media's attention: the apparently greater risk posed by COVID-19 to men with ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Early warning system to avert COVID-19 lockdowns

Scientists are developing a coronavirus early warning system that could prevent future lockdowns by combining data on vaccine uptake with wastewater testing.

Medical research

Why COVID patients become critically ill

Researchers at Amsterdam UMC have discovered why patients become seriously ill after being infected with the coronavirus. They identified that aberrant antibody responses are the main cause of becoming critically ill. In ...

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