Published January 02. 2021 8:05PM Get the weekly rundown Email Submit
An inmate of the state prison system died Saturday morning of complications from COVID-19, the Department of Correction said in a news release.
It was the system’s 14th death associated with the disease.
Citing medical privacy laws, the department did not release the identity of the 69-year-old man but said he had been serving a 20-year sentence for first-degree sexual assault and last entered the prison system in June 2006. He’d been transferred to the MacDougall-Walker Medical Isolation unit for treatment before being transferred to an outside hospital on Dec. 21, 2020, where he died. The department did not specify from which facility he originally was transferred.
Experts from South China's Guangdong province have found the B.1.1.7 mutation from an imported confirmed case on Saturday, according to a statement released by the Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Prevention and Control on Sunday.
Certain gene variants linked to severe Covid-19 infection, study finds
January 02, 2021
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Studying the role of genetic makeup will boost the response against Covid-19 and accelerate drug development According to a study conducted by a team of researchers in Europe, certain gene variants are related to severe coronavirus infections.
For the study, published in the journal Nature, the researchers carried out an analysis of 2,200 severely ill coronavirus patients. Their examination buttresses the fact that genetic makeup plays a pivotal role in the potentially fatal illness witnessed by some Covid-19 people.
The researchers believe that studying the role of genetic makeup will boost the response against Covid-19 and accelerate drug development.