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
DECRYPTION – Recent studies tend to confirm the existence of acquired immunity against SARS-CoV-2. –A photo taken in March 2020, in Paris, shows two women wearing a protective mask walking along the empty banks of the Seine. BERTRAND GUAY / AFP In a somewhat simplistic view of immunity, it would be enough to become infected … Read more
DECRYPTION – In Italy and Spain, there are even twice as many dead men as women. How to explain this difference? –(Illustrative photo.) 206162674 / sudok1 – stock.adobe.com The latest data in France on the Covid-19 epidemic confirms observations in the rest of the world: men are much more seriously affected than women by the … Read more
DECRYPTION – What makes the coronavirus responsible for Covid-19 so formidable is its invisible circulation. Any gesture can participate in the very rapid chain of transmission of the virus. –“The good thing to do is to imagine that you are already infected, and to do everything not to transmit it”, says Professor Graham Medley, British … Read more
Another increase in the number of infections in China and the first deaths to be deplored in the United States and Australia: the coronavirus epidemic continues to spread around the world. The epidemic is approaching 3,000 dead for more than 86,000 cases in sixty countries – including nearly 80,000 cases for 2,870 deaths in China. … Read more
A 78-year-old Italian is the first European to die after being infected with the new coronavirus in Italy, where part of the north of the country has barricaded himself since Friday February 21 after several cases of contamination. Another person died on the peninsula. The first patient had been hospitalized for ten days in Veneto, … Read more
A team of Chinese researchers has dissected the records of more than 72,000 patients. Eight out of ten patients are affected by mild forms, and the elderly or weakened are the main victims. –Workers in protective gear examine specimens inside a laboratory following an outbreak of the new coronavirus in Wuhan, China in early February. … Read more
Never harmless, seasonal flu is even less so in pregnant women, immunocompromised because of their condition, for which the consequences can be dramatic. “The flu can be much more severe, breathing difficulties take on proportions that are difficult to control, and a mother’s respiratory failure can have consequences for the fetus, indicates the Pr Yves … Read more