Coronavirus Disease Weekly News 14February 2021
The news posted last week for the coronavirus 2019-nCoV (aka SARS-CoV-2), which produces COVID-19 disease, has been surveyed and some important articles are summarized here. The articles are more or less organized with general virus news and anecdotes first, then stories from around the US, followed by an increased number of items from other countries around the globe. Economic news related to COVID-19 is found here.
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Summary:
All the important US Covid demographic metrics are falling, and in some cases quite dramatically. This week s new cases were down 19.4% from last week s, and down 62.3% from the second week of January; the 7 day average of new cases is now the lowest since November 4th, but it s also higher than every 7 day period before that date. Illustrative of the decline in new cases was a Thursday headline that new cases had to
Cancer drug shows strong activity against SARS-CoV-2 in lab studies
Updated Jan 29, 2021;
Posted Jan 29, 2021
FILE - This 2020 electron microscope image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - Rocky Mountain Laboratories shows SARS-CoV-2 virus particles which cause COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the U.S., emerging from the surface of cells cultured in a lab. Viruses are constantly mutating, with coronavirus variants circulating around the globe. (NIAID-RML via AP)AP
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A report released on Jan. 25 by the University of California San Francisco, revealed that scientists at UC San Francisco’s Quantitative Bioscience Institute (QBI) and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai (ISMMS) in New York, have found that “a drug approved by the Australian Regulatory Agency for the treatment of multiple myeloma, has potent antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2 - the virus that causes COVID-19.”
A cancer drug based on a compound found in a rare sea creature is 30 to 100 times more powerful against the virus that causes COVID-19 than remdesivir, according to a new set of experiments reported in Science.
Drug extracted from sea squirts fights coronavirus better than remdesivir, study finds
A cancer drug based on a compound found in a rare sea creature is 30 to 100 times more powerful against the virus that causes COVID-19 than remdesivir, according to a new set of experiments reported in Science.
By: KGTV Staff
and last updated 2021-01-27 16:36:45-05
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) A cancer drug based on a compound found in a rare sea creature is 30 to 100 times more powerful against the virus that causes COVID-19 than remdesivir, according to a new set of experiments reported in
In lab tests in petri dishes and mice, the drug Aplidin showed the ability to significantly slow replication of the virus and reduce lung inflammation, according to a team led by scientists at the University of California San Francisco.
In two preclinical models of COVID-19, plitidepsin showed a 100-fold reduction in viral replication in the lungs and demonstrated an ability to reduce lung inflammation.