Friday, 27 November 2020

PRO/AH/EDR> COVID-19 update (509): oral shedding, South Korea prisons, WHO, global

COVID-19 -- South Korea
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Limited knowledge about the contagiosity and case fatality rate of COVID-19 as well as the still enigmatic route of transmission have led to strict limitations of non-emergency health care especially in head and neck medicine and dentistry. There are theories that the oral cavity provides a favorable environment for SARS-CoV-2 entry and persistence which may be a risk for prolonged virus shedding. However, intraoral innate immune mechanisms provide antiviral effects against

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