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62 persons had COVID-related stroke in Bengaluru from June to August
While 34 (77.4%) were male patients, 26 % (16/62) of patients did not have any conventional risk factors for stroke. This would mean Covid-19 patients experiencing strokes are around 66 and 72, respectively, and hospitalised Covid-19 patients not experiencing strokes are around 61 and 67. [Full Article...]
Lilly confident in remediating troubled COVID mAb plant
Lilly says its antibody treatment was developed after it was identified from a blood sample taken from one of the first U.S. patients who recovered from COVID-19. The U.S. government will pay $375 million for that first delivery. According to Lilly, the firm has promised to supply the 300,000 vials over the course of two months and the USA government had secured an option to buy another 650,000 ... [Full Article...]
675 new cases of Covid-19 & six additional deaths
Galway had the third highest number of cases in the country today, but still fell far behind the top two, Dublin (228) and Cork (130), which make up nearly half of today's cases between them. According to the National Public Health Emergency Team, 605 cases of Covid-19 have been reported in Limerick over the past fortnight giving an incidence rate of 310.4. [Full Article...]
Boston releases coronavirus safety guidelines for trick-or-treating this Halloween
The Welsh Government is "strongly advising" against trick or treating. What is trick-or-treating? While it was decided that Durham doesn't need to do that, trick-or-treaters still need to remain vigilant. There is a potential risk in transferring the virus from household to household by handling candies as you go door-to-door. "You go with a lot of friends and go in a big huge block", said s... [Full Article...]
Canada's coronavirus death toll surpasses 10000
Long-term care deaths accounted for almost 80 per cent of COVID-19 cases in Canada during the first wave of the pandemic, but the country's chief public health officer thinks a repeat can be avoided amid a new spike in cases. The statistics agency said the number of deaths dipped to normal levels in July but has surged again during the first 10 days of October, surpassing monthly totals for August... [Full Article...]
Vampire bats socially distance themselves when sick
The study's lead author, Simon Ripperger , from the department of ecology, evolution, and organismal biology, at the Ohio State University, said: "The sensors gave us an awesome new window into how the social behaviour of these bats changed from hour to hour and even minute to minute during the course of the day and night, even while they are hidden in the darkness of a hollow tree". [Full Article...]
Takeda, Moderna partner up to bring 50M coronavirus shots to Japan
The changes arrive at a time when coronavirus infections are rising in much of the country, signaling a third wave that could eclipse the number of cases seen earlier this year. "This will eliminate financial disincentives that hospitals may face for furnishing potentially life-saving treatments to America's seniors", she said. [Full Article...]
More People Say They Are Wearing Masks — CDC
People wearing protective face masks walk along King St. on July 18, 2020 in Charleston, South Carolina. And as temperatures fall, social activities move indoors and families gather for the holidays (against the advice of many public health officials), the odds that younger Americans expose their more vulnerable elders to the virus will go up. [Full Article...]