The debate has become highly politicised, and many scientists have voiced concern. Recently, almost 150 doctors signed an open letter to the Lancet calling its article's conclusions into question and asking to make public the peer review comments that preceded publication. [Full Article...]
It is worth noting that the EEOC has issued guidance (discussed in more detail in our blog here) confirming that, for the duration of the direct threat posed by the coronavirus pandemic, employers may administer COVID-19 diagnostic tests to employees before they are permitted to enter the workplace. [Full Article...]
Both the New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet have published Expressions of Concern over data quality in two recently published studies of drugs used to treat COVID-19 . The company said it has information about almost 100,000 Covid-19 patients from 1,200 hospitals and other health facilities on six continents. While The Lancet corrected a discrepancy in data from Australi... [Full Article...]
A top Republican official said the party is moving forward with considering other cities and states for its key summer convention while expressing hope that Charlotte, North Carolina, the GOP's first choice, would still materialize. "We had appreciated your earlier acknowledgments that a successful and safe convention would need to be scaled back to protect the health of participants as well as No... [Full Article...]
The pandemic has killed more than 380,600 people worldwide, with total infections reaching almost 6.4 million, while more than 2.74 million have recovered from the disease, according to figures compiled by the US-based Johns Hopkins University. [Full Article...]
A further 497 restaurants that will be operating as drive-thrus re-opened from 11am and 43 will begin offering McDelivery. Last week the company said that it would reveal the locations of the restaurants that were to open their doors on the day of each reopening to help manage demand. [Full Article...]
Incidences of these cases are spread across 21 counties. The local numbers have remained steady on 504 after a weekend spike of 11 cases in Carlow. Of the 75 cases, 53 cases are female (70%) and 23 cases are male (30%) with an average age of 52. [Full Article...]
Lilly is developing the treatment in collaboration with AbCellera , which used its proprietary drug discovery technology to analyze antibodies from patients that recovered from COVID-19. Lilly also plans to study the drug in a preventative setting, focusing on vulnerable patient populations who historically are not optimal candidates for vaccines. [Full Article...]