Health

In the past week, the new coronavirus (Covid-19) has started behaving a lot like the once-in-a-century pathogen we’ve been worried about, Microsoft founder Bill Gates said in an article published on the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) on Friday.

The World Health Organization (WHO) joined TikTok on Friday to combat online false information about the new coronavirus outbreak.

Whether the new type of coronavirus is transmitted through the respiratory tract or not, this has always been a hot issue for researchers.

Today, a leading academic journal, Cell, published an online paper on the new coronavirus, revealing key proteins required for it to invade cells.

The epidemic of new coronaviruses has continued to spread, but there is currently no specific cure for this disease. However, for severe and critically ill patients, the use of convalescent plasma therapy in China has shown certain results.

Professor Huang Jinhai's team at the School of Life Sciences of Tianjin University announced that they have successfully developed a new oral vaccine for coronavirus, according to local news media TJYun.

For the new coronavirus, due to the lack of antiviral drugs, symptomatic treatment (artificial lung breathing, parenteral nutrition, etc.) does not directly affect the virus. The body really clears the virus and relies on the immune system to treat the virus. The killing is popularly called "immunity".

In recent weeks, while the outbreak of the new coronavirus pneumonia, another virus disease is raging in countries around the world, which is influenza.

For new coronavirus pneumonia, too many hopes are pinned on antibodies, but antibodies are not as simple as generally understood, that is, as long as the body has antibodies, it can clear the virus.

Early detection of people infected of the novel Coronavirus has become an imminent challenge around the world as the epidemic continues to develop. Now, a new device has significantly reduced inspection time.