Tag: Variant of coronavirus
Bennifosbuvir: the molecule of all hopes against Covid-19
Available orally, non-mutagenic and devoid of toxicity, the antiviral bemnifosbuvir has many advantages. A French team has just discovered its ability to neutralize the replication of SARS-CoV-2, regardless of the…
And after ? Scientists talk about the future of Covid-19
What will happen now? Are we going to live with Covid-19 indefinitely? Can a new variant still arise? And herd immunity in all this? Scientists speak at the National Assembly.…
Omicron: when we got it, can we still catch it?
We hoped to put an end to the pandemic and the Omicron variant. While half of Europeans should have been infected by mid-March, bad news has just fallen. It is…
The BA.2 variant is even more contagious than Omicron!
Omicron’s BA.2 sub-variant, still a minority in France, became the majority in Denmark in a few weeks. A recently published study confirms that it is even more contagious than the…
What we know about NeoCoV, the new coronavirus close to MERS-CoV
Scientists in Wuhan, the city where SARS-CoV-2 was discovered, are raising the alarm about the new NeoCoV coronavirus. If it has never infected humans yet, this dangerous virus present in…
Omicron: what we know about the symptoms of the variant
With more than 300,000 new cases diagnosed per day, and certainly many more in reality, the virus is everywhere. Cases with strong suspicion of contamination by the Omicron variant now…
Covid-19 and bronchitis: how to differentiate the symptoms?
It was already sometimes difficult to distinguish bronchitis from Covid-19 disease. Symptoms caused by the Omicron variant further complicate the diagnosis. If certain symptoms linked to the original strain of…
Omicron: more virions, more contagions?
According to a preprint, the Omicron variant induces a lower viral load than the Delta variant. So what is its contagiousness due to? You will also be interested [EN VIDÉO]…
A marker to differentiate Covid-19 infections from reinfections
The emergence of new variants of SARS-CoV-2 increases the risk of reinfection. MIT researchers have identified several immunological markers to differentiate an infection from a reinfection after a simple blood…
Super immunity and Covid-19: when antibodies are much more powerful in fighting the virus
Being vaccinated and then contaminated would offer an exceptional level of immunity, called “super immunity”. What is it exactly? Does it also work the other way around, i.e. getting infected…