Medical
Ginsburg Hospitalized For Infection, Will Participate In Oral Arguments Remotely
Her health is closely watched because a Supreme Court vacancy would give President Donald Trump the opportunity to appoint a third justice to the nine-member court and shift it further to the right. In August, she was treated for a cancerous tumour on her pancreas. She has fought back cancer twice - in 1999 and 2009 - and recently announced that she is "cancer-free". [Full Article...]
Moderna Jumps on FDA Clearance for COVID Vaccine
Shares of the drug developer jumped 14 percent to $55.97 before the bell. A vaccine now in development to protect against the novel coronavirus will proceed with a second round of clinical trials, biotechnology company Moderna said Thursday. [Full Article...]
UK: Black people 4 times more likely to die of COVID-19
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Bangladeshi and Pakistani males were 1.8 times more likely to die from Covid-19 than white males, after other pre-existing factors had been accounted for, and females from those ethnic groups were 1.6 times more likely to die from the virus than their white counterparts. [Full Article...]
Covid-19 Cluster at Victoria Meat Plant Grows
The fresh cases at the facility in Melbourne's west include seven infected workers and six of their close contacts. The re-opening of the plant is planned despite Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas this morning announcing that another 11 of the state's new COVID-19 cases confirmed overnight were linked to the meatworks. [Full Article...]
Favored coronavirus model raises projected death toll to nearly 135,000
Right now, he said , "we're seeing an increase in mobility that's leading to an increase in mortality unfortunately in the United States". "The social distancing that has occurred has actually, in most settings, been quite effective", said Christopher Murray, director of IHME based in Seattle at the University of Washington. [Full Article...]
Coronavirus: Mutating, but not necessarily more virulent
This has led to the identification of close to 200 recurrent genetic mutations in the virus, which can help show how it may be adapting and evolving in human hosts. His team screened the genomes of more than 7,500 viruses from infected patients around the world. "Vaccine and drug design efforts should preferentially target the conserved regions which are harder for the virus to evade", Lucy van ... [Full Article...]
India gears up to develop key COVID-19 drug: Details here
The statement adds that the company's goal "is to make remdesivir both accessible and affordable to governments and patients around the world" and it plans to continue the production of the drug for "Europe, Asia and the developing world through at least 2022". [Full Article...]
New strain of coronavirus could be more contagious
Some medical experts believe that there are at least two strains of the novel coronavirus in the US. Washington was among the first States to be affected by the original strain of the virus in February, however by March 15, the strain had mutated to the current dominant one. [Full Article...]