Science and engineering

Dexamethasone reduces mortality of patients on mechanical ventilation by 35 %, and people on oxygen treatment by 20 %.

This was reported by Ukraine News on May 26, citing data from the country’s Ministry of Healthcare.

The drug was tested by employees of the N. F. Gamaleya Federal Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology of the Ministry of Health of Russia on themselves.

People who have been infected with SARS during an outbreak in 2003 may be immune to a new type of coronavirus.

Biotechnology company Moderna informed they are positive.

Scientists managed to identify antibodies that actively attack coronavirus in the body of infected people.

This was announced by Dr. Anthony Fauci, a head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

This was announced on April 22 by the Paul Erlich Institute.

The vaccine developed in Oxford will begin to be tested in humans on April 23.

It reduced the ability of the pathogen to bind to a receptor on human cells called ACE2, which makes virus less dangerous.

SARS CoV-2 dies after heating to 92 degrees for 15 minutes.

The results of the study are published on the website of Journal of Biological Chemistry.

The discovery can be useful for vaccine development.

“We cannot allow others to want to exclusively receive the results of their researches,” German Foreign Minister stated.