Tag: COVID-19

In addition to nursing home residents, many SNF employees have also been diagnosed with COVID-19.

“Most other viruses interfere with some aspect of both the call to arms and the call for reinforcements,” tenOever said.

Herd immunity is reached when the majority of a given population -- 70 to 90% -- becomes immune to an infectious disease, either because they have become infected and recovered, or through vaccination.

The way deaths are counted, like so much else in the U.S., differs among (and even within) states.

More than $1bn US BARDA investment to support development and production of the vaccine

People should avoid using the malaria medicine hydroxychloroquine to treat or prevent coronavirus infection, except as part of a clinical trial to study it.

Published: May 20, 2020. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.9670

George Galloway goes there!

Phil Giraldi - The hidden story behind the “war on the coronavirus” is that Israel is itself one of the most advanced states in developing and testing biological weapons at its lab at Nes Tziona.

Sweden has 6.08 deaths per million inhabitants, higher than the UK, USA and Italy

At least 100 million people are moving around again. Public health officials warn that a deadly surge may follow.

“The allegations leveled against WHO in President Trump’s letter are serious and damaging to efforts to strengthen international cooperation to control this pandemic,”

By 1984, Annie was delivering speeches across the US on behalf of John’s short-lived presidential candidacy as she devoted herself to helping other people with disabilities.

Jim W. Dean - The prison guards and staff were an under the radar sacrifice, different but similar to the nursing home staffs across much of the world.

The study seeks to establish the risk of pregnant women with COVID-19 infection transmitting the virus to their fetus.

The engineered nanobody bound strongly to SARS-CoV-2 and was able to stop the virus from entering cells in laboratory experiments

Medical examiners and coroners are the last stop for investigating unexpected deaths, including those who may have died of COVID-19

This analysis included 35 children (ages 2 to 16; median age of 10 years).

"The science behind these executive orders hasn't changed one bit.

The U.S. needs to step up testing.

The Navy said the sailors were removed from the ship and placed in isolation, and are receiving medical care.

The U.S. has the highest number of COVID-19-related deaths, based on the Johns Hopkins database.

Everlywell’s kit is authorized to be used by individuals at home who have been screened using an online questionnaire that is reviewed by a health care provider.

Moderna Announces Positive Interim Phase 1 Data for its mRNA Vaccine (mRNA-1273) Against Novel Coronavirus Moderna Press Release: CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 2020-- Moderna, Inc., (Nasdaq: MRNA)...

There has never has a public-private biomedical research effort of this scope and scale come together with such speed and determination.

The United States has been involved in assassinating perceived enemies since the beginning of time.

On Feb. 13, a full two weeks before New Zealand’s first confirmed coronavirus case, Ardern and her finance minister, Grant Robertson, were hungry for statistics.

Pandemic 2020 exposed a gangrenous limb, the stench of which has only been hidden through and equally exposes gangrenous strangling of truth

The test has a 90% accuracy rate.

The vaccine was developed at the University of Oxford Jenner Institute.

People have been encouraged to stay in place and self-isolate again.

The FDA, jointly with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), previously issued a warning letter to Xephyr about its colloidal silver products. 

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A handful of other veterinary labs across the country are running human tests, adding diagnostic capacity to a patchwork national testing effort beset by several woes.

We’ve seen a growing list of disturbing statistics about how blacks, Hispanics, tribal communities, and some other racial, ethnic, and disadvantaged socioeconomic groups are bearing the brunt of COVID-19.

In addition to its COVID-19 lab test launched early in March, LabCorp offers an antibody blood test that can confirm whether the person has ever been infected with the virus.

Some hospitals say the legal uncertainty is making them wary of resuming long-stalled elective procedures.

Over half of cases and deaths are in Moscow

A new model projects that 147,000 Americans could die from the coronavirus by August – a sharp increase over a total predicted as recently as Sunday.

Three therapies are promising, but all three require human blood plasma

Fauci’s warning stands in contrast to President Donald Trump’s eagerness to reopen the U.S. economy.

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The authors emphasize that developing COVID-19 vaccines will require unprecedented cooperation from governments, academic institutions, industry, and global philanthropic partners

Payment level represents a payment rate of 98.1 percent compared to May 1-6, 2019

The head of the Food and Drug Administration will also self-quarantine; all three are on the coronavirus task force.

“We now have solid data showing that remdesivir diminishes to a modest degree the time to recovery for people hospitalized with COVID-19,” said NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.