The Delta variant of COVID 19 is the latest twist in the Chinese bioweapon unleashed on the World. But I find one thing very troubling–news media, pundits and some health […]
White House pushes student vaccinations as hospital admissions, deaths rise about 40% in a week
Daily new cases, hospitalizations and deaths from the delta variant of the coronavirus are all surging as millions of Americans remain unvaccinated, federal health officials warned Thursday. “Across the board, […]
Report from UK Shows 35% of Those Hospitalized with COVID Had Taken Two Doses of Vaccine
Nearly half of those hospitalized in Britain with the ‘Delta Variant’ were vaccinated. Sky News reported: A report out of Britian shows that 35% of all individuals hospitalized with the ‘Delta […]
SARS-CoV-2 viral genomics
Authors: This analysis was performed primarily by Matt Olm (mattolm@stanford.edu) in Justin Sonnenburg’s lab at Stanford University and Alex Crits-Christoph (crits-christoph@berkeley.edu) in Jill Banfield’s lab at University of California, Berkeley […]
Genomic sequencing: what it is and how it’s being used against Covid-19 in Victoria
Authors: Elias Visontay@EliasVisontay What is genomic sequencing? Genomic sequencing analyses the virus sample taken from a diagnosed patient and compares it with other cases. Prior to Covid-19, genomic sequencing has […]
Genomics study identifies routes of transmission of coronavirus in care homes
Authors: Craig Brierley, University of Cambridge Genomic surveillance—using information about genetic differences between virus samples—can help identify how SARS-CoV-2 spreads in care home settings, whose residents are at particular risk, according […]
How genomic epidemiology is tracking the spread of COVID-19 locally and globally
Auhors: Claire Jarvis, special to C&EN n early April, a paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) raised the eyebrows […]
COVID-19 Open Research Dataset
Full-text and metadata dataset of COVID-19 and coronavirus-related scholarly articles optimized for machine readability and made available for use by the global research community. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, […]
How genomics will help us track Covid-19
Authors: MARC DAALDER New Zealand has found itself suddenly plunged into a dire situation: Four new cases of Covid-19 in the community with no obvious link to the border, managed […]
Why Does COVID Make Some People So Sick, Ask Their Genome
Authors: Megan Molteni i SARS-COV-2,the pandemic coronavirus that surfaced for the first time in China last year, is an equal opportunity invader. If you’re a human, it wants in. Regardless of age, […]