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Drug Trials for COVID-19 Begins in the UK and USA

Clinical Trials to evaluate effectiveness of anti-malarial drug, hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and antibiotic, Azithromycin in treating older people with COVID-19 begins in the UK and...

NLRP3 Inflammasome: A Novel Drug Target for Treating Severely Ill COVID-19 Patients

Several studies indicate that activation of NLRP3 inflammasome is responsible for acute respiratory distress syndrome and/or acute lung injury (ARDS/ALI) seen in severely ill...

Humans and Viruses: A Brief History of Their Complex Relationship And Implications for COVID-19

Humans would not have existed without viruses because viral protein plays a key role in the development of human embryo. However, at times, they...

A Novel Approach to ‘Repurpose’ Existing Drugs For COVID-19

A combination of biological and computational approach to study protein-protein interactions (PPIs) between the viral and the host proteins in order to identify and...

European COVID-19 Data Platform: EC Launched Data Sharing Platform for Researchers

The European Commission has launched www.Covid19DataPortal.org where the researchers can store and rapidly share datasets. The rapid sharing of relevant data would accelerate research and discovery. With...

Heinsberg Study: Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) for COVID-19 Determined for the First Time

The infection fatality rate (IFR) is more reliable indicator of the extent of the infection. In this study, the researchers found the actual infection...

Development of Herd Immunity against COVID-19: When Do We Know That an Adequate Level is Reached to Lift Lockdown?

Social interaction and vaccination both contribute to development of herd immunity however development of herd immunity as a result of social interaction is directly...

ISARIC Study Indicates How Social Distancing Could Be Fine-tuned

The recently completed UK-wide, ISARIC Study on analysis of 16749 patients with severe COVID-19 disease across 166 hospitals indicated that those with co-morbidity were...

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