COVID-19 testing in South Africa: the country is participating in the SOLIDARITY trial. The World Health Organization says it will support other African nations to join. (Alet Pretorius/Gallo Images/Getty)
Sewage might reveal true infection rate
- Sewage could reveal the true scale of the coronavirus outbreak. More than a dozen research groups worldwide have started analysing wastewater for the new coronavirus to estimate the total number of infections in a community. Wastewater testing could be an early-warning sign if the virus returns after it subsides. (Nature | 4 min read)
- The World Health Organization says it wants many more African nations to participate in its SOLIDARITY trial, a global study of four potential COVID-19 treatments. Of the more than 300 clinical trials that have launched to find a treatment for the disease, most are in China and South Korea. And more are on the way in the European Union and the United States. But very few are taking place in Africa, Latin America and south and southeast Asia — where the virus could surge next. (Nature | 5 min read)
- Nature is summarizing the must-read papers and preprints on COVID-19 from across all publications. The latest include how antibodies from llamas could be useful in neutralizing coronaviruses, and evidence that people seriously ill with COVID-19 experienced striking improvement after receiving infusions of blood from disease survivors. (Nature | Continuously updated)
Read Nature’s continuously updated selection of the must-read papers and preprints on COVID-19.
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