A new cluster of COVID-19 cases in northeastern China has prompted authorities to impose a lockdown on over 100 million Chinese citizens in the cities of Shulan, Jilin city and Shengyang, with health officials reporting that this resurgence of the coronavirus appears to act differently than the original outbreak inread more
Ongoing antibody studies are revealing that SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, is far more virulent than previously assumed, with preliminary data from these serological studies showing that the infection rate of the coronavirus may be up to ten times higher than the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases. Although thisread more
In the race to provide effective treatments for patients stricken with COVID-19, hydroxychloroquine—an already available, albeit now controversial, drug—is considered to be amongst the front-running candidates in the fight against the coronavirus that’s behind the pandemic. But despite promising in vitro study results (and a premature endorsement by President Donaldread more