BREAKING: Trump says getting COVID-19 was a ‘blessing from God’ because he got Regeneron’s coronavirus antibody cocktail which he falsely calls ‘a cure,’ as he claims it will soon get emergency FDA approval and be FREE for all Americans President Trump said that he thinks the antibody cocktail he received to treat coronavirus is a ‘cure’ … Read more
UK buys a million DIY coronavirus antibody tests that produce results in just 20 MINUTES – six months after they were first promised by officials At-home fingerprick tests described as ‘game changers’ by officials in March Officials have rejected all of those commercially available until now Tests will be used by people at home to … Read more
A potential new coronavirus antibody treatment made by a British pharmaceutical giant has moved into late stage trials. Brentford-based GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) said its treatment – known as Vir-7831 – could be rolled out by 2021 if its proven to be effective and safe. The drug uses antibodies – proteins found in people who have survived Covid-19 … Read more
Most accurate coronavirus antibody testing kits revealed: Three finger-prick tests ‘are as accurate as sophisticated lab analysis’ with 98% accuracy Finger prick antibody tests can be used to tell if someone has already had Covid Researchers compared the top commercial testing kits available to hospitals They found all of them had a 95 per cent … Read more
Doctors in the UK will trial an experimental ‘antibody cocktail’ medicine on patients in hospital with Covid-19. The Oxford University team behind the pioneering RECOVERY trial in Britain, which discovered that the steroid dexamethasone can save patients’ lives, have announced the newest addition to their study. It is a therapy called REGN-COV2 made by the … Read more
Britain may be closer to herd immunity against Covid-19 than previously thought because surveillance studies are inherently flawed, top scientists said today. According to research looking at antibody test results, just seven per cent of Britons and 17 per cent of Londoners have been infected and recovered from the disease. Experts made these estimates by testing … Read more
Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca is now injecting volunteers with its new antibody treatment for Covid-19 in a bid to see if it will protect people and also help patients who are already ill. The British company, which is also manufacturing an experimental jab developed by experts at Oxford University, hope the monoclonal antibody therapy will prove … Read more
Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca is now injecting volunteers with its new antibody treatment for Covid-19 in a bid to see if it will protect people and also help patients who are already ill. The company, which is also manufacturing a vaccine hopeful made by scientists at Oxford University, hope the treatment will be a coronavirus breakthrough. … Read more
‘I had no idea’: Denise Van Outen says she had coronavirus but DIDN’T realise after receiving the surprise diagnosis during antibody test By Roxy Simons and Bev Lyons For Mailonline Published: 21:55 BST, 21 August 2020 | Updated: 21:55 BST, 21 August 2020 Denise Van Outen has revealed she had COVID-19 but never realised she was … Read more
New experimental coronavirus vaccine prevented severe disease in mice after two doses of the jab boosted their antibody levels 90-fold Researchers genetically modified vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), which causes a mild illness in livestock, to become a vaccine The team took out a gene from VSV and inserted the spike protein from the coronavirus, which … Read more