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Why resistance is common in antibiotics, but rare in vaccines

• Antibiotic resistance is a worldwide problem to the extent that there is a grave risk that common infections will soon become untreatable.
• Meanwhile, vaccines developed nearly a century ago still protect us from deadly diseases. What might explain this difference?
• Resistance against vaccines has only happened rarely.
• A previous study proposed two convincing arguments to explain this phenomenon, by highlighting crucial differences between the mechanisms of drugs and vaccines.

Source: The Conversation

Does vitamin D combat Covid?

• In March, as coronavirus deaths in the UK began to mount, two hospitals in northeast England began taking vitamin D readings from patients and prescribing them with extremely high doses of the nutrient.
• Studies had suggested that having sufficient levels of vitamin D, which is created in the skin’s lower layers through the absorption of sunlight, plays a central role in immune and metabolic function and reduces the risk of certain community-acquired respiratory illnesses.

Source: The Guardian

Covid-19 Vaccine — Frequently Asked Questions

• A collection of resources on Covid-19 vaccines, including frequently asked questions, continuing medical education, published research, and commentary.
• How does each of the available Covid-19 vaccines work?
• What do we know about each vaccine’s efficacy?
• How long will the vaccines work? Are booster doses required?
• Do the vaccines prevent transmission of the virus to others?
• What do we know about each of the vaccines’ short-term safety?
• How should early side effects be managed?
• What do we know about the vaccines’ long-term safety?
• How and when are the vaccines being made available?

Source: NEJM

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) _ Important Updates

• Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious acute respiratory disease caused by a novel coronavirus.
• This article illustrates the following regarding to COVID-19:
  • Key diagnostic factors
  • Other diagnostic factors
  • Risk factors
  • Diagnostic investigations
  • Treatment algorithm

Source: BMJ Best Practice

Predicting mortality risk in patients with COVID-19 using machine learning to help medical decision-making

• In the wake of COVID-19 disease, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, they designed and developed a predictive model based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning algorithms to determine the health risk and predict the mortality risk of patients with COVID-19.
• In this study, they used a dataset of more than 2,670,000 laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 patients from 146 countries around the world including 307,382 labeled samples.
• This study proposes an AI model to help hospitals and medical facilities decide who needs to get attention first.

Source: ScienceDirect

Epidemiological and clinical features of COVID-19 patients in Saudi Arabia

• The aim of this study is to describe the clinical and demographic characteristics of COVID-19 patients, and the risk factors associated with death in Saudi Arabia to serve as a reference to further understand this pandemic and to help in the future decisions and control of this global crisis.
• The total number of positive COVID-19 cases detected constitute 0.7% of the Saudi population to date.
• Older age, non-Saudi nationalities, being male, travelling outside Saudi Arabia, and the presence of symptoms, as opposed to being asymptomatic were considered risk factors and found to be significantly more associated with death in patients with COVID-19.

Source: ScienceDirect

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