She said she feels uneasy about sending them back amid a climb in COVID-19 cases in Calgary. But while Premier Jason Kenney said the decision on wider mandatory use of masks is being left up to municipalities, he insisted the reopening of schools is be undertaken in a measured and safe manner. [Full Article...]
Amigo Creech, an irresistible sickness expert at Vanderbilt University who was not associated with the investigation. Scientists have developed a rapid test to detect antibodies in COVID-19 patients that specifically block the novel coronavirus, an advance that may lead to faster methods for estimating the population level infection rate of the disease. [Full Article...]
Henry said. Bonnie Henry said 70 cases have been linked to events and parties in Kelowna over the past several weeks. "Everyone deserves to have a fun summer and I think we need it...but it needs to be a safe summer as well."-Dr". "We know this is not just an issue in the Okanagan, this is an issue that has affected vacation and rental places across B.C.", she said. One additional fatality re... [Full Article...]
This is down from last week's rate of between 1.2 and 1.8 when there was a spike in new cases being reported. In Northern Ireland, it is the eighth day in a row there have been no coronavirus deaths reported by the Government, raising hopes that the six northern counties are well on the way to eliminating the virus. [Full Article...]
Neutralizing antibodies could be a potent therapy or prophylaxis against COVID-19 and are of interest for vaccine and therapy development. Sequencing 427 of these SARS-CoV-2 genomes, the researchers identified more than 100 internationally-sourced virus introductions into Brazil, estimating that more than 75% of Brazilian SARS-CoV-2 strains fell under three clades introduced from Europe between Fe... [Full Article...]
Teresa Frankovich called this an unfortunate but foreseeable milestone as case counts climb across the state and nation. For more information from Livingston County, go to www.lchd.us . For COVID-19 testing, individuals may visit the Bloomington drive-thru COVID-19 testing site located at the McLean County Fairgrounds, 1106 Interstate Dr., Bloomington, daily from 9 a.m.to 5 p.m. [Full Article...]
PanSeer, a non-invasive technique that costs less than £80 a patient, is more than 90 percent accurate and could lead to screening for tumours of the lung, bowel, gullet, liver and stomach. There are a few cancer-specific blood biomarkers now helping doctors diagnose new patients but the majority of cancer types lack any early-stage screening tool. [Full Article...]
California finds itself back where it started in March when the pandemic gripped the United States. That's just below the record, set on Wednesday, Newsom which was 12,807 new cases. Newsom said the state is looking at getting competitive bigs from California-based manufacturers. Los Angeles County , the nation's most populous with 10 million residents, reported that younger people were drivi... [Full Article...]