Vaccines

COVID-19 Vaccines: Scientists Elucidate Eight Ways To Provide Immunity!

  • More than 90 vaccines are being developed against SARS-CoV-2 by research teams.
  • Researchers are trialling different technologies, some of which haven’t been used in a licensed vaccine before.
  • At least six groups have already begun injecting formulations into volunteers in safety trials; others have started testing in animals.

Less than five months after the world first learnt about the new coronavirus causing fatal pneumonia in Wuhan, China, there are more than 90 vaccines for the virus at...

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COVID Moonshot Project Underway! Crowdsourcing To Tackle the Global Enemy!

Science commentator Anjana Ahuja, writes on how a crowd is gathered to launch a mission against COVID-19, for an article published in Financial Times.

Here’s an excerpt from that.

Compound to tackle Covid-19 

Anti-viral compounds are designed to intercept a virus before it can hijack cell machinery to start replicating. 

Now the global race is on to design a compound that can tackle Covid-19 into submission. 

Covid Moonshot project

Scientists working in universities and industry across the world have...

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Three Preliminary Coronavirus Vaccines Enters Human Trials! 70 Under Development!

  • The World Health Organization listed 70 vaccine candidates for the novel coronavirus, a significant increase from the figure announced three weeks ago.
  • The large number of candidates, as well as the various types of vaccines that researchers are proposing, increase the likelihood of success.
  • Only 3 of the 70 candidates have reached clinical trials at this time — two in the US and one in China and Hong Kong.

There are more than 70 vaccines for COVID-19 currently in development, with three...

http://mfame.guru/three-preliminary-coronavirus-vaccines-enters-human-trials-70-under-development/

The Worst Case Scenario Tackling of COVID19 – Herd Immunity!

Herd immunity

There’s a thing called herd immunity which is always a fallback option when you are dealing with a new pathogen. You see our immunity comes from memory, that is, the ability of the immune system to remember previous infection pathogens and blocking that accordingly. Now, for a new virus, nobody has got it so the virus has a faster infection rate and it doesn’t stop unless a substantial number of people have immunity, a memory of it. The Senior Biomedicine Editor of MIT Technology Review, Anton...

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