It’s clear the virus can get very close to the brain. It’s less certain if virus can penetrate deeper and invade it. It will take years to more fully understand the way the virus afflicts the brain.
The elite pilots streaking low over New York and Philadelphia posed a striking thank you to front-line workers like Dr. Sarah Vossoughi, a clinical pathologist at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia.
The New Yorker magazine's report on the ongoing researches to find Coronavirus treatments, including the endeavor by Dr. Alejandro Chavez to identify antivirus drugs.
"Between 14 and 28 days after resolution of symptoms, we and others have found up to 30 % of individuals are still positive by the nasal swab, and they have antibodies too,” said Dr. Spitalnik.
FPC Briefing with Dr, Eldad A. Hod, MD, associate professor of pathology an cell biology, and Diana Berrent, COVID-19 survivor and founder of Survivor Corps.
Convalescent plasma has been given to a small number of patients in the U.S. hoping it might help them fight off the virus. But the research is at early stages.
Dr. Eldad Hod talks on his efforts to implement serological testing to identify patients who have recovered from COVID-19 and who may qualify as convalescent plasma donors.