COVID-19 Archives - Life Science Review

13 April 202029 January 2022

Researchers recommend that individuals at risk of influenza and/or COVID-19 consider taking 10,000 IU/d of vitamin D3 for a few weeks to rapidly raise their vitamin D levels, followed by 5000 IU/d in order to raise their vitamin D levels above 40-60 ng/mL (100-150 nmol/L) in order to reduce the risk of infection

In April 2020 researchers from the USA published their review on the role of vitamin D in reducing the risk of respiratory tract infection, epidemiology of influenza and COVID-19, and … Read more

21 March 202021 March 2020

SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, is detectable in aerosols for up to three hours, up to four hours on copper, up to 24 hours on cardboard and up to two to three days on plastic and stainless steel

In March 2020 researchers from the USA published the results of their study which looked at how the environment affected SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19 disease, and SARS-CoV-1. SARS-CoV-1 was responsible … Read more

17 March 202017 March 2020

Individual response to COVID-19 is ‘as important’ as government action

In March 2020 researchers from Imperial College and University of Oxford in the UK and Utrecht University and the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in The Netherlands … Read more

17 March 202017 March 2020

Researchers in The Netherlands discover an antibody which can prevent the coronavirus from being able to infect and can also help in the detection of the virus

On 12 March 2020 a research paper from a team of researchers in The Netherlands was posted online on BioRxiv – a website where biologists can publish their research paper … Read more

14 March 202017 March 2020

Coronavirus – “Children react, in part, on what they see from the adults around them. When parents and caregivers deal with the COVID-19 calmly and confidently, they can provide the best support for their children.” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, March 2020)

As usual there is a lot of false information currently circulating on the internet about the current coronavirus pandemic. A recent example is the information which is purported to have … Read more