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Australia's national science agency has said that it has commenced the first stage of testing potential vaccines for Covid-19, as it joins a global race to halt the coronavirus pandemic.
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Researchers in a handful of countries are testing a century-old tuberculosis vaccine to see if it can give a boost to the immune system to help it fight off the novel coronavirus now causing the COVID-19 pandemic.
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"...without the Wuhan travel ban and the national emergency response there would have been more than 700,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases outside of Wuhan..."...
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As we see with COVID-19, the darkest periods in history expose the best — and worst — of humanity. Some people become virulently racist.Others spend hours caring for the most afflicted…...
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A team has developed an automated bag valve mask ventilator to help patients in treatment for COVID-19."This is as simple as it can get, with all readily available parts."...
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Pregnant in the time of COVID-19?An expert in maternal-fetal medicine weighs in: "Expecting parents should prepare to be home for several months."...
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The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to place hospitals in a unprecedented ethical dilemma: Who gets ventilators and ICU beds? New guidelines can help.
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A new artificial intelligence tool predicts which patients will develop severe respiratory disease due to COVID-19. It could help fight the spread.
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TOKYO -- Members of the Group of Seven are considering a plan to invest up to several billion dollars in a research organization to develop a vaccine...
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Culture is key in the spread of COVID-19. It also explains why choosing to head to the beach right now isn't a simple decision, a health scientist says.
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Even as the numbers of cases and deaths rise, some COVID-19 deniers are sticking to their belief that the pandemic is overblown or even fake. An expert explains why.
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VIDO-InterVac said it has isolated the coronavirus in its lab and generated a vaccine that it's now testing on ferrets.
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The maker of Camel, Lucky Strike and Pall Mall cigarettes is trying its hand at a new product: a coronavirus vaccine.
Ed Rybicki's insight:
Sigh...they say BAT, and then they show KBP's sign! They were making drugs / candidate vaccines in plants LONG before BAT / RJ Reynolds bought them.
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The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 has resulted in >90,000 infections and >3,000 deaths.Coronavirus spike (S) glycoproteins promote entry into cells and are…...
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Researchers have found a new use for phage in the fight against seasonal influenza and avian flu and is being looked at to uses against coronavirus.
Ed Rybicki's insight:
Sigh...it's hype, of course, and I don't see widespread use of this ever becoming a Thing, but it IS cool B-)
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Three days ago, I asked our community to predict when the FDA would approve the first COVID-19 vaccine. What did the crowd say?
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A Former Foreign Minister of parody nation Pakistan has now come up with some wild conspiracy theories accusing the US of 'inventing' the virus in lab and giving a clean chit to China which has actually perpetrated the virus on all of humanity.
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Despite what some say about introverts and social distancing, staying home alone isn't easier for them. In fact, in some ways, extroverts may have the edge.
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Two environmental engineers describe potential transmission pathways of COVID-19 and their implications, including the need for more quantitative virus research.
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By Nancy Frazier O'Brien Catholic News Service BALTIMORE (CNS) -- Catholic nuns emerged as the unexpected heroes in the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic that killed hundreds of thousands in the United States and millions worldwide.
Ed Rybicki's insight:
Penguins. it's always penguins B-)
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COVID-19 reveals the gaps in access to health care and in the health of Americans from marginalized groups. But it's a chance to work towards health equity, too.
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The EU is fighting back. It is supporting research into a coronavirus vaccine as well as ways to slow the pandemic and develop better diagnostics.
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Dr.Anthony Fauci co-authored an article in the New England Journal of Medicine predicting the fatality rate for the coronavirus will turn out to be no worse than that of a "severe seasonal influenza."...
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