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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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RNA Vaccine Development progresses.

February 22, 2025 Paul Taylor 0

RNA Vaccine development progresses quite rapidly now and we might well be moving towards the end game for the coronavirus and it’s associated disease COVID-19. What is becoming pretty clear is that for a full economic recovery people need to be in close proximity to each other without fear of contracting Covid-19. Any current discussions […]

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Viral load, coronavirus and Covid-19

February 22, 2025 Paul Taylor 0

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 […]

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Decline of Covid-19 Cases? DOCC theory.

February 22, 2025 Paul Taylor 0

Decline of Covid-19 Cases (DOCC theory) Follows on from our previous discussion about T-cells Do Some Of Us Have Better Defences Against Covid-19 Than We Thought? There are two significant factors that affect the final outcome of a Covid-19 infection. We know that the severity of the infection is affected by the amount of virus infecting […]

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