Tag: COVID-19

Hospital staffs, all over the U.S., are physically and emotionally drained.

Fun watch during this pandemic time

The WHO head said that, while the coronavirus was the biggest health emergency since the early 20th century, the international scramble for a vaccine was also “unprecedented”.

There's a long history of skepticism of the American medical establishment in the Black community.

Cain had attended Trump’s infamous rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, less than two weeks before receiving his diagnosis.

Health officials were not notified of the outbreaks initially

Debates over mask mandates and school reopenings continue to rage across the country.

Wednesday’s record figures can partially be attributed to the data transfer being normalized.

The nation’s largest teachers union, the National Education Association, separately said its members will do “whatever it takes” to protect students.

After being on a near-total lockdown in the spring, Europe has increasingly opened itself to travel this summer.

President Donald Trump also retweeted multiple versions of the video on Twitter, but he did not upload a version of the video to the site.

Your family and friends may be next

“It is hard to look at this as anything but another punch in the gut,”

Pandemic-related stress holds steady; feelings of frustration, fear and anger rising as nation struggles

Our sources tell us that Donald Trump has, this week, issued an order to cancel the November presidential election. He has issued orders for the arrest of Joe Biden and other Democratic Party leaders. His announcement that the GOP convention is canceled is a step in his plan.

Our failures to address COVID-19 effectively are overwhelmingly self-inflicted.

The fear is not only that these symptoms can be dangerous in themselves, but that they can linger, and nobody knows yet for how long.

Attempting to marginalize highly respected researchers such as Dr. Fauci is a dangerous distraction at a time when we most need voices like his.

Among patients hospitalized with mild-to-moderate Covid-19, the use of hydroxychloroquine, alone or with azithromycin, did not improve clinical status at 15 days as compared with standard care.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says a second wave in New York is inevitable -- it's just a matter of how hard it hits; meanwhile, just 2 new fatalities were reported overnight across the state, with no new ones in the city

California’s case rate per 100,000 residents, about 1,046, is significantly lower than New York’s, which is just under 2,081, according to The Times’ coronavirus tracker.

This new staff testing requirement will enhance efforts to keep the virus from entering and spreading through nursing homes by identifying asymptomatic carriers.

We realized that deaths across the U.S. had been doubling every three days and that our estimate of the infection rate was consistent with three-day doubling since the first observed case was reported in Washington state on Jan. 15.

So “everyone” is training to shoot and buying new weapons, and it is even being reported that break-ins to steal guns from sporting goods shops are increasing dramatically.

The protective role of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 is unknown, but these antibodies are usually a reasonable correlate of antiviral immunity, and anti–receptor-binding domain antibody levels correspond to plasma viral neutralizing activity.

On the bright side, if these numbers are correct, then Iran's death percentages are tiny.

If universal masks were applied across the country, the projected daily case count could be reduced to about 46,495 by November 1, over 62.7 percent less than the current daily case count projected by the institute for the same date.

When COVID-19 starts circulating in a community, researchers can fingerprint the genomes of SARS-CoV-2 obtained from newly infected people.

He wore a face mask with the team's name and logo to testify alongside other members of the White House coronavirus task force at a congressional hearing last month.

The appearances abruptly ended in late April days after Trump sparked widespread backlash by suggesting scientists study whether the injection of light or disinfectants into the body could be used as a cure for the virus.

If California were a country, it would be rank fifth in the world for total cases at nearly 400,000, behind the United States, Brazil, India and Russia.

Nueces County Medical Examiner Adel Shaker told The Texas Tribune last week that a baby boy, younger than 6 months old, tested positive for COVID-19 and died.

While remdesivir was thought to be focused on coronaviruses, SNG001 has a more general effect, meaning it may also benefit patients with winter viruses such as flu.

The study of nearly 65,000 people in South Korea suggests that school reopenings will trigger more outbreaks.

The mRNA in the novel coronavirus behind COVID-19 enables a “spike protein” that pierces cells throughout the body.

Pathogens that switch to a new host species have some adapting to do. How does that affect the course of a pandemic like COVID-19?

The research team used a machine learning algorithm to analyse data from a subset of around 1,600 users in the UK and US with confirmed COVID-19 who had regularly logged their symptoms using the app in March and April.

Mosquitoes are still going to be around, and still causing diseases, no matter what sort of pandemic is going on.

Re-opening schools, with one third of children testing positive for coronavirus, is a one-way trip to crazy town.

Health Minister calls wearing masks a matter of social responsibility.

“The FDA is actively monitoring the marketplace for fraudulent products claiming to treat COVID-19.

The nation’s top public-health expert tells The Atlantic that he isn’t going anywhere, despite the Trump administration’s newest attempts to undercut him.

When you mix science and politics, you get politics.

Netanyahu’s decree that the nation’s entire school system would reopen was a political flourish to signal everything was under control

‘Trying to fight this pandemic while subverting scientific expertise is like fighting blindfolded.’

Emerging cases of Covid-19 reinfection suggest herd immunity could be wishful thinking.