Posted on | Posted on John Murphy | Leave a Comment on Close relatives of MERS-CoV in bats use ACE2 as their functional receptors

Close relatives of MERS-CoV in bats use ACE2 as their functional receptors

Authors: Qing Xiong,  View ORCID , , ei Cao,  Chengbao Ma,  Chen Liu, Junyu Si,  Peng Liu,  Mengxue Gu,  Chunli Wang, Lulu Shi, Fei Tong, Meiling Huang, Jing Li, Chufeng Zhao,  Chao Shen,   Yu Chen,   Huabin Zhao,  Ke Lan,  Xiangxi Wang,  Huan Yan Summary Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and several bat coronaviruses employ Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP4) as…[...]

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Necessity of COVID-19 Vaccination in Persons Who Have Already Had COVID-19

Authors: Nabin K Shrestha, Patrick C Burke, Amy S Nowacki, Paul Terpeluk, Steven M Gordon Clinical Infectious Diseases, ciac022, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciac022 The purpose of this study was to evaluate the necessity of COVID-19 vaccination in persons…[...]

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New York Times Admits Unvaxxed People Have ‘Lower Rates of Infection And Hospitalization’ Of COVID-19 Than The Vaxxed.

Authors: Natalie Winters A January 19th update posted to the outlet’s COVID-19 live blog explains how unvaccinated individuals who previously contracted the virus “had lower rates of infection and hospitalization than those…[...]

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Posted on | Posted on John Murphy | Leave a Comment on Endothelial thrombomodulin downregulation caused by hypoxia contributes to severe infiltration and coagulopathy in COVID-19 patient lungs

Endothelial thrombomodulin downregulation caused by hypoxia contributes to severe infiltration and coagulopathy in COVID-19 patient lungs

Authors: Taejoon Won, Megan K. Wood, David M. Hughes, Monica V. Talor, Zexu MaJowaly Schneider, et al. Published:January 12, 2022DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2022.103812 Background Thromboembolism is a life-threatening manifestation of coronavirus disease 2019…[...]

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Posted on | Posted on John Murphy | Leave a Comment on Elevated Expression of Serum Endothelial Cell Adhesion Molecules in COVID-19 Patients

Elevated Expression of Serum Endothelial Cell Adhesion Molecules in COVID-19 Patients

Authos: Ming Tong,1Yu Jiang,2Da Xia,3Ying Xiong,3Qing Zheng,4Fang Chen,2Lianhong Zou,2Wen Xiao,2 and Yimin Zhu2 J Infect Dis. 2020 Sep 15; 222(6): 894–898.Published online 2020 Jun 24. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiaa349 PMCID: PMC7337874PMID: 32582936 Abstract In a retrospective study of 39…[...]

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