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This special coronavirus section shares Weizmann Institute of Science research, expert opinion, education resources, and news. Our scientists are already conducting investigations that could improve testing and diagnosis techniques and provide new strategies for prevention and treatment. We are committed to advancing research to protect and preserve the health and well-being of everyone, everywhere.

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“Emotional COVID-19”: How the Global Pandemic Affected the Mental Well-Being of Israelis
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—August 9, 2021—During the six weeks between the end of the first Covid-19 outbreak in Israel and the beginning of the second one (late April to early June of 2020), researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science initiated a study that sought to assess and understand the mental toll of the pandemic on the country’s adult population. The study included more than 12,000 responses from nearly 5,000 respondents to digital questionnaires.

August 09, 2021
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How Much Does All the SARS-CoV-2 in the World Weigh?
Live Science
Prof. Ron Milo calculated the weight of coronavirus, finding, as Live Science reports, that it’s between that of an apple and a young toddler.

June 10, 2021
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The Triple Threat of Coronavirus
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—May 12, 2021—Severe symptoms of COVID-19, leading often to death, are thought to result from the patient’s own acute immune response rather than from damage inflicted directly by the virus. Intensive research efforts are therefore seeking to determine how the SARS-CoV-2 virus manages to mount an effective invasion while throwing the immune system off course. A new study, published in Nature, reveals a multipronged strategy that the virus employs to ensure its quick and efficient replication, while avoiding detection by the immune system. The study, conducted jointly by the research groups of Dr. Noam Stern-Ginossar at the Weizmann Institute of Science and Dr. Nir Paran and Dr. Tomer Israely of the Israel Institute for Biological, Chemical and Environmental Sciences, focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms at work during infection by SARS-CoV-2 at the cellular level.

May 12, 2021
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Why Does COVID Make People So Sick, So Quickly? Israeli Geneticist Has an Answer
The Times of Israel
COVID-19 is so dangerous because the virus uses a three-pronged attack mechanism to stop cells from quickly triggering the immune system, Israeli scientists have concluded.
They offer a portrait of how exactly the SARS-CoV-2 virus behaves once inside human cells — they say it’s the most detailed to date — in an article published on Wednesday in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.
After hundreds of hours in their labs monitoring the virus interacting with cells, they have concluded that the virus mounts a hostile takeover on the cell’s protein-making machinery, and stops it from making proteins needed to galvanize the immune system.

May 12, 2021
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What Can Covid-19 Teach Us About the Mysteries of Smell?
The New York Times Magazine
The New York Times Magazine’s cover story about the sense of smell – loss of which can be a Covid symptom – cites Prof. Noam Sobel and his research.

January 28, 2021
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Can SARS-CoV-2 Become Even More Troublesome Than The U.K. And South African Variants?
Forbes
In an experiment that mimicked nature, Weizmann scientists produced a coronavirus variant that bound 600 times more tightly than the original, Forbes reports, thus indicating that COVID could become even more dangerous.

January 16, 2021
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72nd Annual Meeting of the International Board: Confronting Coronavirus and Beyond
Prof. Roee Ozeri, Vice President for Resource Development, hosts this session of the Institute’s 72nd board meeting. He presents the state of the research on the coronavirus – and what’s next, including stopping future pandemics.

January 12, 2021
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Inoculation Nation: Insight on the COVID-19 Vaccine From Israeli Experts
This webinar, hosted by the Latin American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science features Prof. Gabi Barbash, Director Emeritus-General of Israel’s Ministry of Health and Director of Weizmann’s Bench-to-Bedside Program, and Prof. Igor Ulitsky of the Department of Biological Regulation.

January 12, 2021
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Around 10 SARS-Cov-2 Virions Per Cell in Human Body, Study Finds
News Medical
In a soon-to-be-released study, Weizmann and University of California scientists have approximated the number of coronavirus particles in each cell in an infected person. News Medical shares the finding.

November 18, 2020
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