Update on research here as elsewhere: care, treatment, vaccines, etc.

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The University of Pittsburgh laboratory is working on a covid-19 candida, March 28, 2020. UPMC / REUTERS

By: Caroline Lachowsky

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, researchers around the world are mobilizing to produce more knowledge about this disease and the associated virus.

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What treatments are envisaged in the North as in the South? Where are the searches? What avenues for a potential vaccine?

  • Eric Delaporte , professor of infectious diseases. Director of the “HIV / AIDS and associated diseases” unit at IRD (Institute for Research for Development) , INSERM and at the University of Montpellier
  • Pr Bruno Lina, researcher at the International Center for Research in Infectious Disease at Claude-Bernard-Lyon-1 University
  • Dr Amadou Sall, director of the Dakar Pasteur Institute , virologist and specialist in emerging diseases

In our silent and depolluted confined cities, other animals are heard ... lighting by researcher Jérôme Sueur of the National Museum of Natural History.

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