New Blood Test Predicts COVID-9 Recovery by Karishma Abhishek on January 17, 2021 at 6:27 PM
Developing sudden failure of organs that leads to various complications like respiratory or kidney inefficiency or requiring other intensive care remains one of the challenging aspects of COVID-19 that may cause death even in young patients.
With an aim to explore which hospitalized patients can get into such complications, involving nearly 100 patients newly admitted to the hospital with COVID-19, a simple and rapid blood test has been formulated by scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Within a day of a hospital admission, this blood test can predict the risk of patients with COVID-19 who are highly prone to develop severe complications or death, published in the journal JCI Insight.
Pregnant Women Serve as Primary Roll Out for COVID-19 Vaccination by Karishma Abhishek on December 23, 2020 at 12:00 AM
High vulnerability of pregnant women to develop severe SARS-CoV-2 infection - COVID-19 and the unknown potency of the anti-SARS-CoV-2 immune response in their offsprings, schedules the need to consider them for COVID-19 vaccination, as per a study at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), published in JAMA Network Open.
127 pregnant women in their third trimester who received care at three Boston hospitals between April 2 and June 13, 2020, were included in the study. There were 64 women who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, among which no virus in maternal or cord blood or placentas (despite detection in the women s respiratory system), were detected.