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“Both Covishield vaccinated sera and convalescent sera were found to offer protection against the double mutant variant (B.1.617),” says Dr. Rakesh Mishra, Director of CCMB. “This is only a preliminary…
Precious time was wasted before critical facilities began to be scaled up to meet the demands of the second wave that is accelerating at an unprecedented speed leading to healthcare…
According to a preliminary report posted on December 19 by the COG-UK Consortium scientists, as of December 15, 1,623 variant genomes have been sequenced. In a December 21 tweet, COG-UK…
FDA grants emergency use authorisation for convalescent plasma even in the absence of evidence from randomised, controlled trial. Mr. Trump, FDA Commissioner and Secretary of Health and Human Services made…
The immune system elicits robust, broad and highly functional memory T cell responses once a person is infected with novel coronavirus. T cells were found even in the absence of…
The researchers found passive transfer of neutralising antibodies isolated from convalescent plasma into Syrian hamsters protect the animals against the disease when exposed to the virus and also protects hamsters…
ICMR’s insistence on an evidence-based approach to plasma therapy is a welcome change and is in stark contrast to the cavalier manner in which it approved hydroxychloroquine as a prophylaxis…
About 30% of patients with mild symptoms failed to develop high amounts of neutralising antibodies even after recovering from COVID-19 disease. If natural infection with novel coronavirus does not elicit…
