Some Recent Scientific Reports and Global Updates on COVID-19

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A comparative analysis examining the differences in the spread of the disease in China and other parts of the world:

https://www.kaggle.com/michau96/coronav ... d/notebook

China records over 14,800 new coronavirus infections overnight:

https://www.kron4.com/health/coronaviru ... n-one-day/

Bat Coronaviruses in China - a manuscript:

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus as an Agent of Emerging and Reemerging Infection

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Confirmed Cases and Deaths by Country, Territory, or Conveyance:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

COVID-19 Global visualization:

http://covidvisualizer.com/

COVID-19 confirmed as airborne:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/16/who-con ... n-air.html

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Analyses from single-cell sequencing (scRNA-seq) datasets support the idea that COVID-19 is not just a respiratory disease but an illness that can affect multiple organs.

When the SARS-CoV-2 virus enters the human body, it breaks into cells with the help of two proteins that it finds there, ACE2 and TMPRSS2. While there has been much discussion of viral infection in gut and lung cells, researchers have dug into massive gene expression datasets to show that other potential target cells also producing ACE2 and TMPRSS2 are scattered throughout the body—including in the heart, bladder, pancreas, kidney, and nose. There are even some in the eye and brain. Read more:

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opin ... ells-67496

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Biomath Covid-19 Research Communications series. See attachment for more details:

http://www.biomathforum.org/biomath/ind ... math/index

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The coronavirus disease COVID-19 could be transmitted through sexual intercourse, a new study has concluded, prompting fears of a new way the disease could be spread.

The virus was found in the semen of a small number of men who had tested positive for COVID-19 at a hospital in China. Doctors at China’s Shangqiu municipal hospital analyzed the sperm of 38 men and found SARS-CoV-2 in some of their semen. Source: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/coron ... 2020-05-08

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Coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa identified in Britain