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Drug treatments a Summary

Drug treatments have some more encouraging news. A bit technical, but the scale is encouraging: Bayer, Mylan and Teva (and others): generic chloroquine We start with the most talked-about drug, which has been around for 70 years and treats malaria: now generic chloroquine, which has been used increasingly in Asia and now in Europe to […]

Blood Clots and Vaccinations

Blood Clots, after vaccination the vaccine instructs the body to produce spike proteins. It is the spike protein that the body reacts to and over a period of 14-21 days instructing it to produce antibodies that protect us from the coronavirus SARS Cov-2. Typically these spike proteins are produced in the liver. It takes a […]

Coronavirus Variants are Rising.

Coronavirus variants of the original coronavirus causing Covid-19 are rising in number, SARS Cov-2 has caused concern following a study of blood samples from people who have recovered from the disease. It found that the antibodies generated by previous infection or as a result of vaccination were  unable to ‘neutralise’ this particular variant in laboratory […]

Understanding how antiviral drugs work

Understanding how antiviral drugs work is extremely frustrating and not easy to understand, for an existing antiviral its not so bad as the pathways to synthesise the drug are already in place. However, new drugs are a bit different. These drugs are very complex molecules. This is basically how drugs work. The drug shown here […]

Major Vaccine Types and Their Manufacturers

Major Vaccine Types and their manufacturers include a least seven teams are developing vaccines using the virus itself, in a weakened or inactivated form. Many existing vaccines are made in this way, such as those against measles and polio, but they require extensive safety testing. Sinovac Biotech in Beijing has started to test an inactivated […]

Immunity, T-cells, Antibodies and the numbers game.

Immunity, so what do we know about immunity? Basically it is provided by both T-cells and Antibodies combined. It revolves around the T helper cells (CD4) and their ability to recognise viruses, some recognise viruses in general some corona viruses and some virus specific T cells recognise a particular virus. (VST). These are used in […]

T-cells – Unappreciated Coronavirus warriors.

T-cells, it is now becoming clear that the issue of immunity from Covid-19, the disease that is caused by coronavirus infection, is not only conferred by antibodies arising from infection but also by other components of the immune system specifically T cells. Checking for the presence of antibodies currently is both easy and quick. Deriving […]

Multiple coronavirus vaccines do we need them?

Multiple coronavirus vaccines do we need them all? There is a great deal we don’t yet fully understand about how the coronavirus attacks the human body but we have established that the quest for a vaccine is a high priority. In recent times that development and trials of the vaccine in the UK led by […]

Did you have Covid-19 before the main outbreak in February 2020?

Did you have Covid-19 before? If you think you may have had Covid-19 earlier than most it is of course entirely possible, even going back to January of this year, prior to that though you may well have encountered a different virus but of the same coronavirus family. Given the evidence that even if we […]

Viral load, coronavirus and Covid-19

Viral load means that if you physically acquire 10–1,000 active particles of coronavirus, low viral load, your chances of catching Covid-19 are almost zero. In fact you can probably pick up more than that as a lot of the viral particles will be inactive so effectively harmless. Now if you somehow come into contact with […]