During the holiday season, many Americans are likely to travel using mass transportation, which inevitably puts them at the risk of getting infected by the coronavirus. Many transit companies have established frequent cleaning routines, but studies have shown that airborne transmission poses a!-->…
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The Food and Drug Administration recently granted emergency use authorization for the experimental antibody treatment given to President Trump when he tested positive for COVID-19. The treatment is made by the biotech company Regeneron; it is a combination of two antibodies that have had promising!-->…
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President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris say that they will move the pandemic response in an entirely different direction than President Trump. Biden is expected to announce the leaders that will serve on his coronavirus task force. The number one promise on Biden’s plan is!-->…
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The Alzheimer’s drug, aducanumab, made by Biogen, would have been the first new Alzheimer’s drug in two decades, but a panel from the Food and Drug Administration recently rejected its effectiveness, suggesting that the evidence was not persuasive enough, and did not show enough effectiveness in!-->…
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In early September, President Trump predicted that there would be a coronavirus vaccine available before the election on November 3rd. Although new drugs typically go through lengthy and rigorous trials before approval, vaccines for COVID-19 are expected to be released under emergency use!-->…
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A new study by the World Health Organization showed that the antiviral drug Remdesivir, which was previously granted emergency authorization by the Food and Drug Administration, fails to prevent death among COVID-19 patients. The study’s manuscripts suggest that the results of Remdesivir were!-->…
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China is making bold promises in the race of developing a coronavirus vaccine. Chinese health officials state that the vaccine will be ready by the end of the year; China has also committed to sharing the vaccine with other countries, particularly low-income countries that it has ties with. Under!-->…
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Public health officials now warn that even moderately overweight people, not only obese people, are at higher risk of developing severe symptoms when infected with COVID-19. Forty percent of adult Americans are obese, while an additional 32 percent are overweight. As a result, nearly three-quarters!-->…
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The Trump administration's bungled response to the coronavirus pandemic has been "a refusal to properly utilize scientific expertise." When the cases just started surfacing, the White House ignored advice from China and the CDC, despite them both warning the United States needed to be better!-->…
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Facebook's Cheif Executive Mark Zuckerberg announced that they will permanently embrace remote work even after the coronavirus lockdown restrictions have been lifted. Zuckerberg said that Facebook will eventually have half of its employees working from home in the next five to ten years.!-->…
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The number of COVID-19 cases has reached one million as of April 2, 2020, just four months after the virus was discovered in Wuhan, China. As a highly contagious virus that shows little to no early symptoms, COVID-19 has rapidly surpassed all recent outbreaks in size and scale. The United States!-->…
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved a new test for Coronavirus antibodies. This new test, unlike current tests that test for fragments of viral genes present in the nose and throat, looks for protective antibodies in a finger prick of blood. The test delivers its results in 15!-->…
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There are rising concerns as to how long the novel coronavirus can survive on a surface – so much so that China’s central bank is thoroughly disinfecting their cash, and even destroying it, to minimize the contamination. It is unknown how long the novel coronavirus can linger on a surface, but!-->…
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Researchers at Google and Northwestern University along with three British medical institutions have developed an artificial intelligence model that predicts breast cancer in mammograms more accurately than human experts. A study on this AI model reported that the AI detected cases of breast cancer!-->…
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