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Dr. Fauci set to speak in front of the Senate
Fauci has sometimes attended White House briefings that have gone on for up to two hours, even speaking to the nation about the virus through early morning television interviews. Anthony Fauci on its list of people to speak on the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus-but it looks at the moment like that appearance won't be happening. [Full Article...]
Harvard Kept Ties With Jeffrey Epstein After '08 Conviction, Report Shows
The report documented more extensive ties than had been previously known between Mr. Epstein and the university, which was one of a number of powerful institutions that he used to help burnish his image. A message seeking comment was left with Nowak. Harvard's report also found that in applying for a foundation grant, Nowak falsely stated that an Epstein nonprofit had given his group money. [Full Article...]
Japanese government to implement a Coronavirus tracing app
In a letter released April 27, a former federal health official called on Congress to find $12 billion to help expand the contact tracing workforce, estimating that the USA will need up to 180,000 before a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine is available. [Full Article...]
Bill Gates says coronavirus vaccine can take up to 2 years
We need to make billions of doses, we need to get them out to every part of the world, and we need all of this happen as quickly as possible. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories . But implementing them could be challenging because they need to be stored at -80 ° C (-112 ° F), compared to just 4 ° C (39 ° F) for more traditional vaccines . [Full Article...]
Coronavirus: Ministry of Health updates Covid-19 case count
Ottawa Public Health and the City of Ottawa are asking for feedback on their pandemic response and want to know how residents would like to see local COVID-19 restrictions eased. "His family tell us that George will be remembered as a real Kiwi bloke, a rough diamond, who loved his deer stalking". Hollings' family, in a statement to health officials, said: "We can't speak highly enough of th... [Full Article...]
US authorises Ebola drug Remdesivir for coronavirus treatment
But hydroxychloroquine also hits a particular protein in the heart tissue, which could explain the drug's effect on heart rhythms - a side effect recently flagged by US and European Union health regulators. The drug may also help avert deaths, but that effect is not yet significant enough for scientists to know for sure. Among the information that would be important to have about the NIH stud... [Full Article...]
Pune-based SII starts production of Covid-19 vaccines
The timeline is to have the vaccines ready to be sent out into the world by September, with a big focus on low- to middle-income countries, starting with India. "There's lots of challenges". Scientists at the National Institutes of Health's Rocky Mountain Laboratory in Montana last month inoculated six rhesus macaque monkeys with single doses of the Oxford vaccine. [Full Article...]
World Health Organization aware of reports of inflammatory syndrome in children
In fact, the sudden rise in multi-system inflammations in children might not necessarily even be linked to one particular cause at all, the pediatricians believe . But these findings couldn't be replicated in other groups of children with Kawasaki disease . We're not 100% sure because some of the people who got it hadn't tested positive. [Full Article...]