Financial Inclusion for Universal Health Coverage Summit 2022
ACCESS Health International Southeast Asia co-hosted the Financial Inclusion for Universal Health Coverage Summit on October 18, 2022 with the Institute of Insurance and Risk Management, Hyderabad. The summit was attended by start-up founders, central and state government representatives, insurance companies, industry, …
SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease Suppresses Innate Immunity By Cleaving Proteins Required For Interferon Induction And Inflammation
Many viruses rely on proteases to process polypeptides into smaller proteins required for replication and virus production. SARS-CoV-2 is no exception. It contains two proteases in the long open reading frame of ORF1A1B that encode for 15 proteins which need proteolytic processing. …
Molecular Jujitsu: SARS-CoV-2 Co-Opts Host Defense
Host defenses and the viruses countermeasures are critical to understanding infectious disease. To survive a host must be able to ward off the pathogen. In turn the pathogen must be able to counter the host defenses. In the midst of the Covid …
Five Days Is Too Short! Study Says To End Covid-19 Isolation Based On Rapid Tests Results Instead
The party on Friday was a blast except for one thing: you think you caught Covid. Saturday you felt fine, but you realize that the runny nose and cough you developed Sunday afternoon may not be so innocent. One of your roommates …
The Heavy Lifting Of T Cells In Immunocompromised Covid-19 Patients
When invaded by a virus such as SARS-CoV-2, the body engages multiple layers of defense to ward off the intruder, just as a moat and various defensive walls serve to protect a castle. The first line of defense is innate immunity, followed …
Will Covid-19 Vaccines Continue To Protect Us From Hospitalization And Death??
Vaccines are integral to our control of Covid-19—if not for preventing infection, at least for preventing severe illness and death. But what if vaccine-induced immunity lost its efficacy against new variants on all accounts? Along with earlier work published by MIT, a …
Loss Of Smell Linked To Long Term Covid Cognitive Impairment
Very little is known about the long term effects of Covid-19, especially in relation to the brain. Who gets what symptoms may feel like a mystery. And with the current seven day average of new cases hovering around 1,000,000 cases worldwide, the …
Covid-19, Gender And Immune Response: What’s The Relationship? (Part Two)
Covid-19 disease severity and mortality differ between men and women, but the reasons for such differences are not well understood. Part one of this series delves into sex differences in response to SARS-CoV-2 infection and notes how stronger immune responses seen in …
Covid-19, Gender And Immune Response: What’s The Relationship?
This is the first installment in a two part series which analyzes biological sex differences in immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection. This article focuses primarily on Covid-19 related viral entry as well as innate and adaptive immune responses Covid-19 and their correlation …
Mild Covid Inflicts Paradoxical Brain Damage: Detected By Imaging But Not By Neuropsychological Assessment
Brain fog—or difficulty thinking or concentrating—plagues many who recover from Covid-19. Along with fatigue, lightheadedness when standing, and trouble sleeping, Covid-caused neurological symptoms may linger for weeks to months at a time. These ailments can develop even after asymptomatic and mild cases …
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