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Autoantibodies Might Affect Acute Disease Severity and Neurological Symptoms

Concentrations of autoantibodies correlate with disease severity. Why do some people get so much sicker than others with acute COVID-19? And what causes the neurological symptoms — anosmia, fatigue, encephalopathy — seen in some patients? A team from Yale employed a new technology for finding autoantibodies to 2770 extracellular and […]

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Effect of Ivermectin on Time to Resolution of Symptoms Among Adults With Mild COVID-19

Key Points Question  What is the effect of ivermectin on duration of symptoms in adults with mild COVID-19? Findings  In this randomized clinical trial that included 476 patients, the duration of symptoms was not significantly different for patients who received a 5-day course of ivermectin compared with placebo (median time to resolution […]

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Covid-19: Eight in 10 Wuhan residents with antibodies had no symptoms, finds study

More than three quarters of Wuhan residents who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies had experienced no covid-19 symptoms and just under half developed long lasting neutralising antibodies, show results from the first long term seroprevalence study from the epicentre of the outbreak in China.1 Researchers tested 9542 people from 3556 […]

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