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By Serge-Paul Carrasco on April 12, 2020

Covid-19 – Day 137: Why Japan has so many few Cases of Covid-19?

(E) Several hypotheses discussed by Professors Akiko Iwasaki and Nathan Grubaugh from the Yale School of Medicine and Yale School of Public Health Department of Epidemiology about why japan has […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on April 12, 2020

Covid-19 – Day 137: Correlation between BCG Vaccinations and Covid-19

(E) There have been many articles recently, such as this one from ScienceMag, that have reported the correlation between the BCG and the propagation of Covid-19:  Can a century-old tuberculose […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on April 10, 2020

Covid-19 – Day 135: Coronavirus Antiviral Research Database

(E) Stanford University has created an antiviral research database for the coronavirus. In particular, it includes the ongoing and planned clinical trials of antiviral compounds. Note: The picture above is […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on April 8, 2020

Covid-19 – Day 133: The Profile of Covid-19 Patients Admitted to an ICU

(E) Professor Matthieu Schmidt ,from the Service of Réanimation Médicale (Intensive Care Unit) of the Hôpital La Pitié Salpêtrière in Paris, described the characteristics of the Covid-19 patients that are […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on April 5, 2020

Covid-19 – Day 130: The Cytokine Storm or the Last Response of the Immune System against the SARS-CoV-2

(E) Another great article from the New York Times that explained the cytokine storm of the immune system in its fight against the SARS-CoV-2: The Coronavirus Patients Betrayed by Their […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on April 4, 2020

Covid-19 – Day 129: Inside the Coronavirus Genome

(E) A great article from the New York Times that explained the genome of SARS-CoV-2: Bad News Wrapped in Protein: Inside the Coronavirus Genome. Note: The picture above is wild […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on April 3, 2020

Covid-19 – Day 128: Simulating Covid-19 Pandemic with SIR and SEIR Models

(E) Another great video from 3blue1brown’s YouTube channel about understanding and experimenting SIR models. A SIR model is an epidemiological model, more exactly a compartmental model, that computes the theoretical […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on April 2, 2020

Covid-19 – Day 126: How did Taiwan Control the Covid-19 Pandemic?

(E) Stanford University’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) organized today a virtual conference on Covid-19 and AI. Following are a few slides from Professor Jason Wang at The Lucile Salter Packard […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on April 2, 2020

Covid-19 – Day 126: How did Singapore and South Korea Control the Covid-19 Pandemic?

(E) Stanford University’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) organized today a virtual conference on Covid-19 and AI. Following are a few slides from Professor Barry, from the Center for Innovation in […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on April 1, 2020

Covid-19 – Day 126: Yale School of Medicine Initial Treatment for Hospitalized Patients with Non–Severe COVID-19

(E) Yale School of Medicine just released its initial treatment algorithm for hospitalized patients with non–severe COVID-19 which is very similar to the one from Professor Raoult at the IHU […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 31, 2020

Covid-19 – Day 125: Giving Oxygene to Covid-19 Patients

(E) The arenicola marina (or lugworm or sandworm) has a blood structure that is comparable to human hemoglobin but according to Hemarina, a French biotech start-up, it differs in three […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 31, 2020

Covid-19 – Day 125: 2020 Covid-19 Recession = No Cash Flows + Furlough + Layoffs

(E) The 2020 Covid-19 Recession = No Cash Flows + Furlough + Layoffs. Companies, and in particular small businesses, that have no cash on their balance sheets are suffering, and […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 31, 2020

Covid-19 – Day 135: Johnson & Johnson Vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2

(E) Johnson & Johnson has just announced, that in partnership with the US federal government, it will invest more than $1 billion in a potential vaccine, developed at the Beth […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 30, 2020

Covid-19 – Day 134: The Evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 and Why it is so Destructive to the Human Body?

(E) Two excellent articles, well detailed and can be understood by everyone.  In the New Yorker: “From Bats to Human Lungs, the Evolution of a Coronavirus” , and in the […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 29, 2020

Covid-19 – Day 133: Visualizing the Pandemic

(E) While everyone is familiar with the excellent Johns Hopkins University’s visualization too of worldwide and per country Covid-19 cases, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) part of […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 25, 2020

Covid-19 – Day 129: Comparing the 1918 Spanish Flu to the Coronavirus of 2020

(E) The New Yorker interviewed John Barry, the author of “The Great Influenza” and an expert on the Spanish flu pandemic. He explains, in the following video, the parallel between […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 24, 2020

Covid-19 – Day 128: A Simple Explanation of why the Soap Kills the SARS CoV-2

(E) Easy, fast, and useful to read, published in Le Monde: Comment le savon permet de détruire le coronavirus? Note: The picture above is un savon de Marseilles. Copyright © […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 24, 2020

Covid-19 – Day 128: Mount Sinai to Begin the Transfer of COVID-19 Antibodies into Critically Ill Patients

(E) We know for sure that transferring antibodies from health patients to critically ill ones should work. Mount Sinai Hospital, based in New York, is working on it: Mount Sinai […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 23, 2020

Covid-19 – Day 127: Modeling the Exponential Covid-19 Epidemic Growth Rate

(E) Modeling the epidemy – from understanding the basic math of what is exponential growth…     which says, that from the data outside China as March 6th, the number […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 22, 2020

Covid-19 – Day 126: Worldwide Clinical Trials of the Most Promising Treatments for Covid-19

(E) We just need one to work well, and asap! Reported in ScienceMag: “WHO launches global mega trial of the four most promising coronavirus treatments“. Treatments include: Remdesivir (antiviral – […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 22, 2020

COVID-19 – Day 126: How Professor Raoult at Mediterannee Infection will Treat COVID-19 Patients?

(E) Professor Didier Raoult and the Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire (IHU) de Marseille, who conducted early successful tests with the hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment to Covid-19, have announced how they […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 21, 2020

COVID-19 – Day 125: FDA Approves Cepheid 45 mns SARS-Cov2 Test for Hospitals

(E) Cepheid, a  company which provides automated molecular diagnostics through its GeneXpert® System for hospitals has announced a new test approved by the FDA for Covid-19 that can be performed […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 21, 2020

COVID-19 – Day 125: The Tip of the Iceberg from David Ho HIV Virologist Pioneer

(E) Caltech published a complete, clear, and concise summary of the conoravirus pandemic in a Q&A with David Ho, whose research has been key for the understanding of the HIV […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 20, 2020

COVID-19 – Day 124: Goldman Sachs 2nd Quater GDP Contracting by 24%

(E)  CNBC reported the latest economic forecast of Goldman Sachs. Economists, at the financial firm, are forecasting a historically sharp and swift recession, with second-quarter GDP sinking a stunning 24% […]

By Serge-Paul Carrasco on March 20, 2020

COVID-19 – Day 123: Why Country is Flattening the Curve?

(E) The New York Times has published today which countries have been successful to flatten the curve? So far Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, and China. Italy, Spain, Iran, France, […]

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