Steroids used in Covid treatmet leading to fungal infections in few patients

The cases of fungal infection emerging now are mostly due to the excessive use of steroids

The rat race for COVID vaccine

The search to develop the COVID-19 vaccine is at its peak, with several companies desperate to claim the first spot. In

The Pune-based company has collaborated with Oxford University and pharmaceutical company Astra Zeneca for making the vaccine

The technique, approved by ICMR, involves taking nasal swabs in dry state and putting them in a tube which can be sent for RT-PCR testing

There were 23,000 participants being assessed, who among them would be following two regimes of half dose and full dose

Older individuals are at disproportionate risk of severe COVID-19 and so any vaccine adopted for use must be effective in older adults

To find out whether experimental Covid-19 vaccines are effective, researchers design clinical trials involving thousands of volunteers

That potentially rules out the 3 vaccine candidates that have shown over 90% efficiency over the last week - Pfizer, Sputnik V and Moderna

Moderna's announcement comes just a week after Pfizer said their COVID-19 vaccine candidate was more than 90 per cent effective

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