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Analysis: Human rights that protect the enviiornment --some legal facets

Mon, 2021-03-22 11:44 — mike kraft
The human right that benefits nature More than 100 constitutions across the world have adopted a human right to a healthy environment, often serving as a powerful tool to protect the natural world. Katarina Zimmer BBC_Future
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OPINION: How can we get people to trust the AstraZeneca and other vaccines?

Mon, 2021-03-22 10:29 — mike kraft

News Update: A U.S. trial found that AstraZeneca’s vaccine was 79 percent effective with no serious side effects, according to results released on Monday.

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Myths and Facts about coronavirus vaccines -Washington Post

Mon, 2021-03-22 10:07 — mike kraft
Perspective | Five myths about coronavirus vaccines No, the mRNA vaccines don’t change your DNA Peter Hotez, Maria Elena Bottazzi Washington Post
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ANALYSIS: How Europe Went Wrong in Its Vaccine Rollout

Sat, 2021-03-20 19:54 — mike kraft

BRUSSELS — The calls began in December, as the United States prepared to administer its first batches of Covid-19 vaccine. Even then, it was clear that the European Union was a few weeks behind, and its leaders wanted to know what they could learn from their American counterparts.

The questions were the same, from President Emmanuel Macron of France, President Ursula von der Leyen of the European Commission, and Alexander De Croo, the prime minister of Belgium.

“How did you do it?” Dr. Moncef Slaoui, the United States vaccine czar, recalled them asking on the calls. “And what do you think we missed?”

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ANALYSIS: Five reasons why COVID herd immunity is probably impossible

Fri, 2021-03-19 20:40 — mike kraft

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00728-2

As COVID-19 vaccination rates pick up around the world, people have reasonably begun to ask: how much longer will this pandemic last? It’s an issue surrounded with uncertainties. But the once-popular idea that enough people will eventually gain immunity to SARS-CoV-2 to block most transmission — a ‘herd-immunity threshold’ — is starting to look unlikely.

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ANALYIS: Misinterpretations of Covid come from boths ides of the political aisle

Fri, 2021-03-19 12:58 — mike kraft

Americans on the right half of the political spectrum have tended to underplay the risk of Covid-19. They have been less willing to wear masks or avoid indoor gatherings and have been more hesitant to get vaccinated.

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OPINION: Suggestions for countering disinformation about COVID vaccines and masks

Fri, 2021-03-19 12:26 — mike kraft
How to Debunk Misinformation about COVID, Vaccines and Masks We each have more power to be a science communicator than we realize Kathleen Hall Jamieson Scientific American
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ANALYSIS: The first big study of COVID reinfection

Fri, 2021-03-19 12:02 — mike kraft
The First Big Study On COVID Reinfection Is Here. Here's What It Means. Can you get the coronavirus twice? How long do you have immunity? This new report provides a lot of insight. Catherine Pearson HuffPost
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Study finds children have surprisingly high rate of COVID-19 antibodies

Fri, 2021-03-19 11:39 — mike kraft
High rate of COVID-19 antibodies found in children, study shows A study out of Northern Virginia shows children had a surprisingly high rate of COVID-19 antibodies. Lindsay Watts FOX 5 DC

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (FOX 5 DC) - A study out of Northern Virginia shows children had a surprisingly high rate of COVID-19 antibodies.

Inova Health System partnered with Virginia Department of Health and George Mason University to look at the rate of COVID-19 in children. It was done in the Fall.

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Low-dose aspirin is useful against Covid --researchers

Thu, 2021-03-18 18:16 — mike kraft
Low-dose aspirin can reduce the risk of ICU admission and death of Covid-19, researchers say The cheap, over-the-counter drug may help protect the lungs and reduce the need to put patients on ventilators. Ryan Prior, CNN CNN

(CNN) Low-dose aspirin may help protect the lungs and reduce the need to put patients on ventilators, researchers reported Wednesday.

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