DECRYPTION – The presumed protective effect of the anti-malarial does not seem strong enough to prevent the onset of the disease in populations suffering from autoimmune diseases who take it every day. –Hydroxychloroquine pills. LOUAI BESHARA / AFP The promises of hydroxychloroquine, whose antiviral effect in vitro against Sars-CoV-2 had raised many hopes, are far … Read more
Some 15 children have been hospitalized in recent days in New York because they suffered from an inflammatory disease that could be linked to the coronavirus and of which dozens of cases have already been reported elsewhere. The patients, who were hospitalized between April 17 and May 1, aged 2 to 15, all had fever, … Read more
Will France be able to carry out each week, as is the aim, the 700,000 PCR tests considered essential to test all patients and their contacts at the end of confinement? Nothing is less sure. Thursday evening on LCI, the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, said that France was doing a lot more tests than … Read more
The first elements of the military convoy transporting the field hospital which must help to unclog the Mulhouse hospital, whose resuscitation service is saturated by coronavirus patients, arrived on Saturday morning March 21 at their destination. See also – Coronavirus: a field hospital is being organized in Mulhouse Of the 16 army logistics command trucks … Read more
The performance of future commercial serological tests has been compared to that of the best laboratory tests designed by the Institut Pasteur. –More than 100 serological tests are listed worldwide, estimates a specialist in diagnostics, of which around fifty have received a “CE marking”. 211045328 / angellodeco – stock.adobe.com During the weekend, the list of … Read more
WIDE ANGLE – The stages of replication of Sars-CoV-2 are all potential pharmacological targets. It remains to take a giant step: go from the test tube to the man … –Let’s follow step by step the path of our intruder, aka Sars-CoV-2, to better understand how pharmacology can hinder him. MAXIM SHEMETOV / REUTERS Like … Read more
DECRYPTION – The role of children in the spread of the epidemic was raised very early, by analogy with what happens every winter in other epidemics such as the flu. –“We no longer have the impression that children are dead ends.”r Arnaud Fontanet, director of the global health department at the Institut Pasteur Family Veldman … Read more
INFOGRAPHY – The scientific community is wondering about the neutralizing capacities of the antibodies developed by people cured of the coronavirus. By Delphine Chayet and Vincent Bordenave– –This electron microscope image shows Sars-CoV-2 (in blue) emerging from cells grown in the laboratory. Handout ./via REUTERS Can we get sick again after a first infection with … Read more
All key indicators are down. If we forgot that France had been living for more than a confined month, we could almost believe that the epidemic was about to end. In the last epidemiological point published on Friday by Public Health France, the number of cases reported by the Sentinelles network, which collects data from … Read more
DECRYPTION – At this stage, this “immune passport” is likely to be not only ineffective, but even dangerous. –For France, at the current stage of the epidemic, the problem does not come from the test, however precise it may be. THOMAS SAMSON / AFP The idea of testing the whole population with inexpensive serological tests … Read more