India surges past 4 million cases after recording highest single-day rise in infections
India surges past 4 million cases after recording highest single-day rise Source link
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Former Cook Islands prime minister dies in second fatality linked to New Zealand’s Auckland cluster
Dr. Joseph Williams Pasifika Medical Association New Zealand has reported a second Covid-19 death linked to a cluster in Auckland. “The Ministry can confirm that the former Prime Minister of the Cook Islands Dr Joseph Williams QSO passed away last night in Auckland City Hospital,” the country’s Ministry of Health said in a press release … Read more
India surges past 4 million cases after recording highest single-day rise in infections
• Germany’s virus response won plaudits. But protests show it’s a victim of its own success • Analysis: Trump’s latest attack on mask-wearing may be his worst yet Source link
The major Phase 3 vaccine trials are still not enrolling enough minorities, latest data shows
Moderna Inc. headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Monday, May 25. Adam Glanzman/Bloomberg via Getty Images Moderna and Pfizer, the two major pharmaceutical companies developing coronavirus vaccines, are still not enrolling enough minorities in their clinical trials, according to their trial updates. The recommendation: Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and … Read more
Fauci is unsure what Trump means by saying the country is “rounding the corner” on the pandemic
In this image courtesy of the Henry Ford Health System, volunteers are given the Moderna mRNA-1273 Coronavirus Efficacy (COVE), on August 5, 2020, in Detroit, Michigan. The first COVID-19 vaccine trial volunteers in Michigan received their first shots August 5, in an effort to help find a safe, effective vaccine to the deadly coronavirus. Henry … Read more
Medical journal editor to CNN: Trump “simply wrong” that vaccine will be available to public by October
In this image courtesy of the Henry Ford Health System, volunteers are given the Moderna mRNA-1273 Coronavirus Efficacy (COVE), on August 5, 2020, in Detroit, Michigan. The first COVID-19 vaccine trial volunteers in Michigan received their first shots August 5, in an effort to help find a safe, effective vaccine to the deadly coronavirus. Henry … Read more
Deaths from Covid-19 are undercounted, WHO says
Nancy Killebrew checks her phone as she waits with her daughter Melody for the start of a movie at The Lot on Thursday, Sept. 3, in San Diego. Gregory Bull/AP More young people are getting infected with the coronavirus at higher numbers. Experts fear that will only grow as many colleges and schools reopen. In … Read more
Biden: Trump has “botched” the Covid-19 response badly
Speaking from the Oval Office, President Trump praised vaccine development efforts and his administration’s response to Covid-19. The President told reporters he thinks the public will hear some “very good news” on vaccines. Trump said he’s spoken to the chief of drug-maker Pfizer as the company claims it’s on track to provide data about its … Read more
Trump’s vaccine chief says he would resign if there was undue interference in Covid-19 vaccine process
A Covid-19 vaccine developed and tested in Russia generated neutralizing antibodies in dozens of study subjects, and while the vaccine often caused side effects such as fever, those side effects were mostly mild, according to data published Friday in the medical journal The Lancet. In the phase one and two studies, all 76 study participants … Read more
First clinical trial results from Russia’s Covid-19 vaccine published in The Lancet medical journal
Customers wearing face masks collect their orders as chairs and tables are stacked together as part of social distancing efforts inside a cafe in Seoul, on August 31. Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images South Korea is extending its strict social distancing measures for the greater Seoul Metropolitan area for one more week until September 13, … Read more