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Coronavirus is not the flu. Its worse.

February 22, 2025 Paul Taylor 0

Measles is one of the most contagious diseases we know. Just one person is likely to infect between 12 and 18 people. That number is called a disease’s “basic reproduction number,” or R0. Scientists use it to describe how contagious a disease is. Zika? It has an R0 of up to 6.6. Super contagious but the seasonal […]

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Drug treatments a Summary

February 22, 2025 Paul Taylor 0

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 […]

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Blood Clots and Vaccinations

February 22, 2025 Paul Taylor 0

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 […]

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Coronavirus Variants are Rising.

February 22, 2025 Paul Taylor 0

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 […]

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Understanding how antiviral drugs work

February 22, 2025 Paul Taylor 0

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 […]

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Major Vaccine Types and Their Manufacturers

February 22, 2025 Paul Taylor 0

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 […]

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

February 22, 2025 Paul Taylor 0

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 […]

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T-cells – Unappreciated Coronavirus warriors.

February 22, 2025 Paul Taylor 0

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 […]

How many coronavirus vaccines do we need

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Multiple coronavirus vaccines do we need them?

February 22, 2025 Paul Taylor 0

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 […]

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

February 22, 2025 Paul Taylor 0

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 […]

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