COVID-19 is the disease caused by a new coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2. Read the most recent insights on the topic of COVID-19.
Doctors advocate for large post-COVID studyThe government should invest money in a central and long-term study of post-COVID syndrome in the Netherlands. This is what Professor of Internal Medicine Michèle van Vugt (Amsterdam UMC) and lung specialist Leon van den Toorn (Erasmus MC) are pleading for. Now they have to keep disappointing patients with long-term complaints after a COVID-19 infection.
When the total is more than the sum of its parts: a collaboration between AII and the group of Prof. WilfingsederBy combining the human in vitro 3D model of Prof. Wilfingseder’s group and the knowledge of the potent inhibitor of SARS-CoV-2 infection found by Prof. Geijtenbeek’s group the two groups were able to demonstrate that LMWH enoxaparin can be used to block the attachment of SARS-CoV-2 to nasal cells. This makes LMWH enoxaparin a suitable candidate for the prevention of SARS-CoV-2.
Corona drug for people with immune disorders elicits rapid resistanceA large proportion of patients with an immune disorder who received the drug sotrovimab because of a covid infection (Omikron variant) turned out to develop resistance to this drug very rapidly due to specific mutations in the coronavirus.
Accelerated innovation driven by COVID-19 in rheumatoid arthritis researchDr. Gertjan Wolbink and his team set up a innovative large-scale study in the early 2020s to study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on patients with an inflammatory rheumatic disease. One of their findings: after vaccination rheumatoid arthritis patients taking the drug Rituximab are less protected against a COVID-19 infection.
Do not differentiate between patients with and without corona “Corona has had preferential treatment in healthcare for too long”, argues Armand Girbes, head of intensive care VUmc at Amsterdam UMC in response to research by the RIVM. This shows that postponing non-acute operations in 2020 and 2021 has cost at least 320,000 healthy years of life.
