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07.07.2021 / 21:57

‘Too good to be true’: Doubts swirl around trial that saw 77% reduction in COVID-19 mortality

Robert F. ServiceScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation.It would be the best news by far in COVID-19 treatment: According to a preprint published on 22 June, an experimental prostate cancer drug named proxalutamide reduced deaths in hospitalized COVID-19 patients by 77% in a clinical trial in Brazil.

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Researchers race to develop antiviral weapons to fight the pandemic coronavirus

Robert F. ServiceScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation.In March 2020, as the scope of the COVID-19 pandemic was coming into view, Jen Nwankwo and colleagues turned a pair of artificial intelligence (AI) tools against SARS-CoV-2.

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Saliva could hold clues to how sick you will get from COVID-19

Robert F. ServiceScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.To the known risk factors for developing severe COVID-19—age, male sex, or any of a series of underlying conditions—a new study adds one more: high levels of the virus in your saliva.

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New test detects coronavirus in just 5 minutes

Robert F. ServiceScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.Researchers have used CRISPR gene-editing technology to come up with a test that detects the pandemic coronavirus in just 5 minutes.

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One number could help reveal how infectious a COVID-19 patient is. Should test results include it?

Robert F. ServiceScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.Ever since the coronavirus pandemic began, battles have raged over testing: Which tests should be given, to whom, and how often? Now, epidemiologists and public health experts are opening a new debate.

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In ‘milestone,’ FDA OKs simple, accurate coronavirus test that could cost just $5

Robert F. ServiceScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.Coronavirus testing is set to get faster.

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New drool-based tests are replacing the dreaded coronavirus nasal swab

Robert F. ServiceScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.First, a technician pushes a pencil-length swab to the very back of your nasal passages.

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AI invents new ‘recipes’ for potential COVID-19 drugs

Robert F. ServiceScience's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.As scientists uncover drugs that can treat coronavirus infections, demand will almost certainly outstrip supplies—as is already happening with the antiviral remdesivir.

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Radical shift in testing strategy needed to reopen schools and businesses, researchers say

Robert F. ServiceScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.Even as the United States ramped up coronavirus testing from about 100,000 per week in mid-March to more than 5 million per week in late July, the country fell further behind in stemming the spread of the virus.

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Coronavirus antigen tests: quick and cheap, but too often wrong?

Cheap and easy antigen tests that detect proteins of the new coronavirus (yellow) in samples from a person are coming, but they aren’t perfect.

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NIH launches competition to speed COVID-19 diagnostics

Today’s testing for the novel coronavirus requires nasal swabs, but a $1.5 billion National Institutes of Health initiative could develop easier-to-use tests.

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Would-be coronavirus drugs are cheap to make

Most drugs in clinical trials against COVID-19, such as chloroquine phosphate, can be made cheaply.

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You may be able to spread coronavirus just by breathing, new report finds

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