Medical
Italy begins human trials of covid-19 vaccine in Rome
A few of those, who were inoculated with vaccine doses, have shown "adverse reactions" and not a single person has reported fever, a Chinese National Health Commission official was quoted as saying by state-run Global Times. An emergency use authorisation, which is based on Chinese vaccine management law, allows unapproved vaccine candidates to be used among people who are at high risk of getting ... [Full Article...]
World Health Organization laments escalating Ebola situation in DR Congo's Equateur province
This latest outbreak, the 11th in the DRC, was declared on June 1, 2020, in Equateur. Forty-three people have lost their lives. It is a city that has faced outbreaks before, but the virus has spread to rural villages throughout the greater province of Équateur. [Full Article...]
Hamas responds to Israel strikes in Gaza
Israel has bombed the coastal Palestinian strip, which is ruled by the group, nearly daily since August 6, while balloons carrying fire bombs and, less frequently, rocket fire have hit Israel from Gaza . The group also demanded the return of some United Nations relief programs to the Strip, and that Qatar increase the length of time it will provide aid money, as well as the amount of it that Hama... [Full Article...]
Twitter hides Trump tweet behind notice for potentially dissuading people from voting
They are not Covid sanitized. To assuage voters' concerns about voting by mail amid the ongoing public crisis facing the postal service, states have expanded locations that allow voters to drop off their ballots rather than sending them via USPS . [Full Article...]
Trump announces emergency authorization of ‘breakthrough’ coronavirus treatment
The move would make it easier to receive the treatment, which Trump has promoted even though studies to prove its benefits haven't been completed. "Patients are getting it". With Sunday's announcement, the USA has become one of the first to use the blood plasma on coronavirus patients. But sometimes, as with the antimalaria drug hydroxychloroquine - which Trump personally publicized as a COV... [Full Article...]
Coronavirus: No deaths in Republic & no new Galway cases reported today
Brookings County is in the "moderate" community spread category. There are 64 people hospitalized with the disease in New Mexico as of Sunday, according to the Department of Health. Bernalillo County reported 17 cases on Sunday, after seeing 86 new cases on Saturday. The total for Ireland now stands at 27,908. Further details on the weekend numbers and more details about where in the state tho... [Full Article...]
Eight new COVID-19 cases in Brookings County Sunday, Aug. 23
Santa Fe County led the state in new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, which has not been the norm for the county that houses the state capital. The counties with the highest total case counts are Minnehaha (4,896), Pennington (1,042), Lincoln (787), Beadle (614) and Brown (549). [Full Article...]
FDA Authorizes Convalescent Plasma As Emergency Treatment For COVID-19
The treatment is blood plasma from recovered COVID-19 victims. A day before the FDA's announcement, Trump tagged the agency's Commissioner Stephen Hahn in a Twitter post in which he said, "The deep state , or whoever, over at the FDA is making it very hard for drug companies to get people in order to test the vaccines and therapeutics". [Full Article...]