From immunity to the role of genetics, Nature looks at five pressing questions about COVID-19 that researchers are tackling.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01989-z
"In late December 2019, reports emerged of a mysterious pneumonia in Wuhan, China, a city of 11 million people in the southeastern province of Hubei. The cause, Chinese scientists quickly determined, was a new coronavirus distantly related to the SARS virus that had emerged in China in 2003, before spreading globally and killing nearly 800 people.
Six months and more than ten million confirmed cases later, the COVID-19 pandemic has become the worst public-health crisis in a century. More than 500,000 people have died worldwide. It has also catalysed a research revolution, as scientists, doctors and other scholars have worked at breakneck speed to understand COVID-19 and the virus that causes it: SARS-CoV-2.
They have learnt how the virus enters and hijacks cells, how some people fight it off and how it eventually kills others. They have identified drugs that benefit the sickest patients, and many more potential treatments are in the works. They have developed nearly 200 potential vaccines — the first of which could be proved effective by the end of the year.
But for every insight into COVID-19, more questions emerge and others linger. That is how science works. To mark six months since the world first learnt about the disease responsible for the pandemic, Nature runs through some of the key questions that researchers still don’t have answers to."
From immunity to the role of genetics, Nature looks at five pressing questions about COVID-19 that researchers are tackling.
n late December 2019, reports emerged of a mysterious pneumonia in Wuhan, China, a city of 11 million people in the southeastern province of Hubei. The cause, Chinese scientists quickly determined, was a new coronavirus distantly related to the SARS virus that had emerged in China in 2003, before spreading globally and killing nearly 800 people.
Six months and more than ten million confirmed cases later, the COVID-19 pandemic has become the worst public-health crisis in a century. More than 500,000 people have died worldwide. It has also catalysed a research revolution, as scientists, doctors and other scholars have worked at breakneck speed to understand COVID-19 and the virus that causes it: SARS-CoV-2.
They have learnt how the virus enters and hijacks cells, how some people fight it off and how it eventually kills others. They have identified drugs that benefit the sickest patients, and many more potential treatments are in the works. They have developed nearly 200 potential vaccines — the first of which could be proved effective by the end of the year.
But for every insight into COVID-19, more questions emerge and others linger. That is how science works. To mark six months since the world first learnt about the disease responsible for the pandemic, Nature runs through some of the key questions that researchers still don’t have answers to.
I think we have learned that 99. something % of young kids are not subject to harm if they get it and frequently did not show symptoms either? If that is true why the debate over schools other than the school unions the lawyer unions trying leverage the virus into money or the political realty of trying to hurt Trump?
and today I found out if you go get an antibody test and it comes up positive ut automatically goes into the positive covid column...some state officials are trying to deny this but the hospitals and testing centers say absolutely true....more bad data going into the numbers? do we really know anything that is solid? Other than hurt Trump at any cost to society?
I actually know a person with inside knowledge which is indisputable that suggests some(very low number) of the COVID numbers are messed up.
Some people in Indiana that died in retirement homes that went down as COVID deaths...........were not COVID deaths.
This looks like its not being done on a large scale but they do get more money for a COVID death.
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We rate the claim that hospitals are falsely tagging patients with COVID-19 to make money as false.
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