n early April, about four months after a new, highly infectious coronavirus was first identified in China, an international group of scientists reported encouraging results from a study of an experimental drug for treating the viral disease known as COVID-19. It was a small study, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, but showed that remdesivir, an unapproved […]
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Public health experts and elected officials have emphasized again and again that social distancing is the best tool we have to slow the coronavirus outbreak. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention encourages people to stay home. If you must venture out, you should stay at least six feet away from others. The World Health Organization recommends a […]
In light of the novel coronavirus pandemic ravaging the world, the famous saying “not all heroes wear capes” applies to more and more people every day. The doctors and the rest of the medical staff fighting the virus on the frontlines, all the people who can’t stay home and are going to work every day, […]
Their number and location are a matter of national security. Their purpose is to make vaccines. These are America’s hidden chickens. Across the United States, there are potentially millions of chickens laying eggs every day, year-round, for flu vaccines. According to CNN, during the most recent flu season alone (to the end of February), 140 million […]
A team at Texas A&M University’s College of Engineering have developed a method to construct personal protection masks out of air conditioning filters in preparation for face mask supply shortages. The do-it-yourself masks are designed to provide protection similar to that of an N-95 respirator, which blocks 95 percent of virus-sized airborne particles, unlike traditional […]
TORONTO — With COVID-19 cases soaring, health care officials are trying to get ahead of the worst by looking at who is most at risk of ending up in the ICU and on ventilators if they catch the virus. High on that list is smokers. There are already so many reasons not to smoke: increased […]
A tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York City has tested positive for the virus that causes COVID-19, and six other big cats are exhibiting symptoms consistent with the illness, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Sunday afternoon. “It’s the first time, to our knowledge, that a [wild] animal has gotten sick from COVID-19 […]
The World Health Organization is facing a mounting backlash over its handling of China’s cover-up of the novel coronavirus. WHO leaders, including Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, have run interference for China’s propaganda war meant to absolve the communist nation of responsibility for the global spread of COVID-19. The WHO is now under increasing pressure from experts and Republican senators. […]
New Delhi: India has once again shown itself to the whole world. When the whole world including China and America is failing to fight the coronavirus, the country has prepared its vaccine. All vaccine studies are nearing completion. Soon this vaccine will prove to be helpful in saving the lives of people all over the world […]
In February, the Mongolian government issued a plea to the country’s private sector: Help us find masks. Neighboring China had provided an early front-row seat to how the spread of the coronavirus could leave health care workers desperately in need of personal protective equipment. Zorig Tumensaan, who owns several clinics in the Mongolian capital of […]
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