SWEDEN - Swedish professor quits COVID-19 research amid hostility over his findings [New York Post, 2021]

Title:

Swedish professor quits COVID-19 research amid hostility over his findings

 

Author:

Yaron Steinbuch

 

Published:

New York Post, 2 March 2021

https://nypost.com/2021/03/02/professor-quits-covid-19-research-amid-hostility-over-his-findings/

From the article:

A Swedish professor of epidemiology has quit researching COVID-19 after facing fierce backlash over his findings that the illness poses a low threat to children — undermining the political argument that schools can’t reopen.

COVID research updates: Uninfected children have antibodies to the coronavirus - Interesting articles on SARS-CoV-2 research

Title:

COVID research updates: Uninfected children have antibodies to the coronavirus  

 

Published:

Nature, 9 November 2020

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00502-w

 

From the article:

* Nature wades through the literature on the new coronavirus — and summarizes key papers as they appear.

 

* Scientists have found antibodies that recognize SARS-CoV-2 in the blood of people who have never caught the virus. Children are particularly likely to harbour such antibodies, which might explain why most infected children have either mild illness or none at all.

Research at Israel’s Hebrew University of Jerusalem & New York’s Mount Sinai Medical Center - Drug could eradicate COVID-19 from lungs in days

Title:
Hebrew U. scientist: Drug could eradicate COVID-19 from lungs in days

Author:
Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman

Published:
The Jerusalem Post, 15 July 2020
https://www.jpost.com/health-science/hebrew-u-scientist-drug-could-eradicate-covid-19-from-lungs-in-days-635028

From the article:
Researchers at Israel’s Hebrew University of Jerusalem and New York’s Mount Sinai Medical Center believe they could potentially downgrade COVID-19’s severity into nothing worse than a common cold.

New research by Hebrew University Prof. Ya’acov Nahmias and Sinai’s Dr. Benjamin tenOever revealed that the FDA-approved drug Fenofibrate (Tricor) could reduce SARS-CoV-2’s ability to reproduce or even make it disappear.

Times Higher Education, 1 May 2020 - Huge cash injection for Hong Kong universities’ Covid-19 research

Title:
Huge cash injection for Hong Kong universities’ Covid-19 research

Author:
Joyce Lau

Published:
Times Higher Education, 1 May 2020

From the article:
"Hong Kong’s two medical schools, which have been important critical voices in global public health policy, have received significant government support for 26 studies related to Covid-19 after the Health and Medical Research Fund approved HK$111 million (£11.5 million) for the University of Hong Kong Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine (HKU Med) and the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Medicine (CU Medicine)."

To read this article:
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/huge-cash-injection-hong-kong-universities-covid-19-research