Numerous workers come from Mexico, the Caribbean and Guatemala and when they arrived this year they were required to self-isolate for 14 days. Scott Biddle, president and chief executive of Scotlynn Group, said the company spent almost $700,000 to house the workers who range in age from 20 to 71 at the hotel. [Full Article...]
Speaking to Sveriges Radio today (3 June), Mr Tegnell said: "Should we encounter the same disease, with exactly what we know about it today, I think we would land in doing midway between what Sweden did and what the rest of the world did". [Full Article...]
That's phase three of the clinical-development process - the final trial stage before a vaccine can gain approval from the US Food and Drug Administration. The University of Oxford and AstraZeneca vaccine trial underway in the United Kingdom will follow a similar schedule. Recovery shows that there is an immune response that can clear the CCP virus . [Full Article...]
It was not clear if the trial had also been temporarily stopped. The experts who wrote The Lancet also criticized the study methodology and the authors' refusal to identify any of the hospitals that provided patient data, or name the countries where they were located. [Full Article...]
The curfew , barring people from streets citywide and nonessential vehicles from part of Manhattan from 8 p.m.to 5 a.m., was imposed to prevent the nighttime chaos that followed peaceful protests for several days in a row. But City Councilman Mark Treyger noted the bricks in the video Shea tweeted were from a construction project far from where any protests or violence had occurred. [Full Article...]
Of those who received hydroxychloroquine , investigators said 49 developed the disease compared with 58 in the placebo group, a difference that could simply be random. The study is finished and results are being analyzed now. AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria said WHO's decision about resuming the HCQ arm of the clinical trial was "a step in the right direction towards larger public interest"... [Full Article...]
Can it be helpful? Mitul Mehta, professor of neuroimaging and psychopharmacology and director of Centre for Innovative Therapeutics at Kings College London, told the PA news agency: "It's a trial for patients with Covid-19 disease to see if giving them an anti-inflammatory drug - a specific form of ibuprofen - will reduce the respiratory problems they have". [Full Article...]
On May 26, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued interim guidelines for COVID-19 antibody testing in clinical and public health laboratories. "Again, assuming these are similar, and hoping they are, if someone has antibodies to COVID-19, the antibodies would stay around for a while and offer some protection", Hammel shared. [Full Article...]