Where did SARS-CoV-2 originate? The result of a natural zoonotic process, a lab leak, or some other explanation? TrialSite suggests there is no absolute proof of cause but past entries suggest the lab leak theory is possible. Now a couple of studies produce more data...
Omicron is popularly reported as ‘mild’, but the possibility of long-term symptoms has not been fully explored. Dr. Bruce Y. Lee, a professor of health policy and management at the City University of New York School of Public...
Dr. Fernando Valerio, a critical care doctor in Honduras who co-authored a recent peer-reviewed study indicating the potential of repurposed drugs targeting SARS-CoV-2, shared with Trial Site his experience treating patients in the Central American nation....
Mary Beth Pfeiffer Unless one sells vaccines for a living, the overall numbers for the covid-19 variant Omicron will seem wildly encouraging. Take a California study of 53,000 Omicron and 17,000 Delta cases from November 30, 2021, to January 1, 2022. In every way,...
With just under 4.4 million people, Alberta is the Western Canada province covering vast terrain from mountains and prairies to desert badlands and seemingly endless coniferous forests. With about 1.4 million residents, Calgary represents the urban hub, abutting the...
Novavax announced that it has submitted a request to the U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for NVX-CoV2373, its protein-based COVID-19 vaccine candidate for immunization of individuals 18 years of age and older...
A team of scientists led by members of Shanghai Institute of Stem Cell Research and Clinical Translation at the Shanghai East Hospital’s School of Medicine, Tongji University, report on some disturbing trends associated with mass COVID-19 vaccinations across multiple...
A Yale University epidemiologist who works with the National Basketball Association (NBA) conducted a surveillance study of 35,000 COVID-infected people that concluded that unvaccinated people are slightly less likely to catch Omicron than people who have received two...
Recently preliminary findings of a study were published in Pediatric Neurology in December suggested that neurologic manifestations were common in children hospitalized from COVID-19 and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children. This most recent study...
Israel, one of the more heavily vaccinated nations, goes through its worst surge yet with record infections driven by both the delta and omicron variants of concern. Despite a vaccination rate of nearly 70% and the world’s most boosted populations (three doses)...
Israel has been, to a certain degree, the petri dish for the worldwide covid pandemic. It was the first country to fully vaccinate its population and is now dealing with the aftermath. An Israeli doctor alleges he told Pfizer about the incidents of...
A group of researchers in Wuhan, China have discovered a new bat coronavirus, called NeoCoV that appears to be on the threshold of human infectivity using the same pathway, the ACE-2 receptor gene, that the SARS-CoV-2 virus used to such widescale destructive effect....
This large retrospective observational population study out of Mexico is a testament to the benefits of treating mild outpatient Covid-19 cases with a medical kit at home. They found that the incidence of hospitalization was only 6.14% in patients who received a kit...
A new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine consensus study, headed by Kaiser Permanente Division of Research Director Tracy Lieu, MD, MPH, makes recommendations to accelerate the research needed to fill evidence...
rialSite continues to report on possible connections between the microbiome and COVID-19, including the results of a study sponsored by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Center for Gut Microbiota Research. Now, CUHK researchers are in the...