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COVID-19 will end up resembling common cold: Oxford vaccine creator Sarah

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COVID-19 will end up resembling common cold: Oxford vaccine creator Sarah

A leading scientist behind the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine said that Covid-19 is unlikely to become a more deadly form that can escape the vaccine because “the virus does not have much to go” and will eventually cause the common cold. Mrs. Sarah Gilbert spoke at the Royal Society of Medicine webinar, refuting concerns about new, more deadly variants. According to the British “Times” report, she said: “We usually see that the easier the virus is to spread, the lower the virulence, so there is no reason to think that we will have a more toxic version of Sars-CoV-2.” “There are not many places where viruses can escape immunity but are still truly infectious.” She said the virus “becomes less virulent” through the population, adding: “There is no reason to think that we will have a more virulent version of Sars-CoV-2.” “We have coexisted with four different human coronaviruses. We have never really considered these coronaviruses. Eventually, Sars-CoV-2 will become one.” These other coronaviruses can cause the common cold, and Mrs. Gilbert said: “Ultimately, Sars-CoV-2 will be one of them.” “It’s just a question, how long will it take to get there, and what measures must we take to manage it.” The 59-year-old man led a team at the Jenner Institute of Oxford University to develop the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, which is the most widely distributed vaccine in the world. The above remarks came as the Chief Medical Officer of England, Professor Chris Whitty, warned that almost all uninfected children will be infected with Covid-19 sometime in the future, and nearly half of young people are already infected with the virus. .

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Covid infection linked to more type 1 diabetes in kids and teens: Study

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Covid infection linked to more type 1 diabetes in kids and teens: Study

Two studies that did not definitively resolve the question of whether the coronavirus can cause the chronic disease of diabetes found that Covid-19 in children and adolescents appeared to increase the chance of acquiring diabetes. Over two years after the pandemic’s commencement, researchers from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health looked at new type 1 diabetes diagnoses using national health registries. They discovered that type 1 diabetes was roughly 60% more likely to develop in children who had tested positive for the coronavirus.

The risk within 30 days of a Covid infection confirmed by a PCR test was examined by the researchers. Young adults were also included in a Scottish study that was presented at the European Link for the Study of Diabetes meeting. This study indicated an increased risk one month following the viral sickness, but the researchers said they discovered no association after that point.

The authors of both studies emphasised that their findings do not necessarily imply a causal link between diabetes and the coronavirus. Other potential causes were emphasised, such as delays in seeking medical attention during the epidemic, the introduction of other diseases, and alterations in way of life brought on by lockdowns.

Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, an associate professor at the Nuffield department of primary care health sciences at the University of Oxford, stated: “There are a lot of plausible reasons that Covid-19 might lead to development of type 1 diabetes, but this remains in no way proved.”
According to a paper earlier this week in the medical journal The Lancet, the number of people with type 1 diabetes, in which the pancreas fails to generate the hormone insulin, may increase from 8.4 million to 17.4 million by the year 2040.

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The illness, which has no known treatment and is most frequently diagnosed in children, is thought to be caused by a combination of genetics and exposure to particular pathogens, including SARS-Cov-2 as well as a larger family of viruses known as enteroviruses. Type 2 diabetes, which is more prevalent, typically appears later in life as sedentary habits and weight increase mess with the body’s ability to manage sugar.

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