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Russian scientists commented in the interview with "Izvestiya" the possibility of treatment COVID-19 with radiation therapy, expressing doubts about the safety of this method.
The possibility of treatment of coronavirus infection in a similar way previously made by scientists from the US and Canada. So, according to experts from the canadian Cancer centre Jack ady, low-dose x-rays can help against pneumonia, which is often a consequence of coronavirus infection, the study was published in the journal of the European society for radiotherapy and Oncology 6 April. The research group of the cancer Institute of Emory University (USA) has tested the experimental technique on ten patients with coronavirus and pneumonia, the result of irradiated patients recovered four times faster, with side effects, the authors did not reveal.
Ill COVID-19 may have problems with immunity, is reported in the Preprint of the research scientists from the Institute of Virology of Wuhan on the portal medrxiv.
Lymphopenia, that is, temporary or persistent decrease of lymphocytes in the blood, is a typical symptom in patients with COVID-19.
In areas with poor ventilation the maximum risk of infection of the coronavirus, said virologists and immunologists, the words of which reports the newspaper "Izvestia".
It is noted that the purpose of the room itself is as significant as the work of ventilation in it.
After completion of the test vaccine created by NIC of epidemiology and Microbiology named Gamalei and testing of the defense Ministry, it will first start to introduce people who are at risk, said the head of the laboratory of genomic engineering MIPT Pavel Volchkov.
The expert noted that now the vaccine trials are primarily conducted on military personnel in middle age, which is all right with health.
The proposal of the Ministry of communications of the Russian Federation to reduce by 50% of state funding for the development of quantum computing in 2020 may adversely affect plans to create a quantum computer by 2024, as the current year is planned to purchase equipment necessary to 4.7 billion rubles, said at the disposal of RIA Novosti the opinion of Rosatom.
The opinion of Rosatom was sent to the relevant working group ANO "Digital economy" on 3 June. He refers to the proposal of the Ministry on updating passports of the Federal project "Digital technology": the Agency is particularly proposes to reduce by 50% the amount of state support direction of "Quantum computing" in 2020, with the transfer of the funds in 2022.
In the first phase of testing the vaccine COVID-19 involved a perfectly healthy military volunteers, said to RIA Novosti on Saturday, head of the laboratory of genomic engineering MIPT Pavel Volchkov.
Earlier, the volunteers who participate in clinical trials of the vaccine in the Main military clinical Burdenko hospital of the National research centre of epidemiology and Microbiology named Gamalei, said that do not feel any side effects from the vaccination.