Sumedha Guha, Techno India University In a recent study conducted on lung samples obtained from 79 patients who died of COVID-19, researchers from the Far Eastern Federal University in Russia discovered the SARS-CoV-2 virus can not only damage red blood cells (RBCs) but also prevent the new formation of key red blood cells (namely, Erythrocytes). […]
Chitra Roy, University of Calcutta Several months into the pandemic and the coronavirus is not only reaching into remote areas but also to regions that had previously been battered by the virus. This has led to a recent rise in the number of cases in the U.S. The last seven-day average for new cases is […]
Chitra Roy, University of Calcutta As we are getting closer to the COVID-19 vaccine, it is exciting to think of the day when the virus will be gone. But, the COVID-19 vaccine will not be the magic bullet considering its efficacy and the challenges currently being faced in these efficacy studies. Efficacy of a vaccine […]
Sumedha Guha, Techno India University The outbreak of the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) towards the latter part of 2019 had brought mankind to a screeching halt for some time. The global pandemic that followed in its wake is something that every nation of the world is still grappling hard to recover from. […]
-Sashreek Ganguli, Amity University Kolkata One- fifth of the COVID-19 patients in today’s world develop critical interstitial pneumonia characterized by bilateral interstitial infiltrates, leading to Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) and respiratory failure. These patients while under treatment show acute hypoxemia and often have persistent dyspnea, despite the administration of oxygen flows>10–15l/min through a facial […]
Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata The pandemic, that is, the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world all of a sudden, changing infection rates or rather increasing it every day without leaving the world to think of the ways to fight with the unknown enemy, the virus. This created a lot of panic at the beginning of […]
Thota Kanishka Rao, Amity University Kolkata Emerged in 2019, and spread rapidly, the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) impacted economies worldwide, overwhelming health-care systems, as it infected millions causing severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). To respond, a worldwide effort has been initiated to develop vaccines and therapeutic agents. For COVID-19 vaccine development, the trimeric […]
Samrat Sarkar, Amity University Kolkata On this point when the entire world is on its way to find a way out to find a solution of the CORONA virus, scientists came up with an idea of ‘Herd Immunity’ theory which according to them would have been a big hit but on the other way WHO’s […]
Srilagna Sarkar, Amity University Kolkata Severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2) and related to the Coronavirus disease as seen has led to a novel degree of disturbance globally. Whether oncology stakeholders, its patients, families or clinicians are adjusting and conforming with the challenges caused by the convergence of the two-life threatening diseases. Two studies by […]
Prama Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata After the recovery of President Donald Trump from Covid-19 using a similar therapy as of the antibody medicine from AstraZeneca Plc, the company has started its late-stage trials for the same against COVID-19. The medicine will undergo two trials on more than 60000 people starting soon. Astra has also planned […]
