COVID-19

How Did Sweden Flatten Its Curve Without a Lockdown?

Fri, 2020-07-31 16:37 — mike kraft

How Did Sweden Flatten Its Curve Without a Lockdown? One expert credits a 'good-enough strategy'; others worry that it won't last Kristina Fiore medpagetoday

Despite never implementing a full-scale lockdown, Sweden has managed to flatten its curve, prompting its health leadership to claim victory -- but others question the cost of the strategy, as the country has a far higher death toll than its Scandinavian neighbors.

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Fauci tesifies he is cautiously optimistic COVID-19 vaccine will be widely available

Fri, 2020-07-31 11:43 — mike kraft

Fauci optimistic COVID-19 vaccine will be widely available Once a coronavirus vaccine is approved as safe and effective, Americans should have widespread access within a reasonable time, Dr. Anthony Fauci assured lawmakers Friday. Appearing before a House panel investigating the nation's response to the pandemic, Fauci expressed “cautious” optimism that YahooNews

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Virus wipes out 5 years of U.S economic growth

Fri, 2020-07-31 09:53 — mike kraft

The coronavirus pandemic’s toll on the nation’s economy became emphatically clearer Thursday as the government detailed the most devastating three-month collapse on record, which wiped away nearly five years of growth.

Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of goods and services produced, fell 9.5 percent in the second quarter of the year as consumers cut back spending, businesses pared investments and global trade dried up, the Commerce Department said.

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European drugmakers Sanofi and GSK strike $2.1 billion deal with U.S. for a coronavirus vaccine

Fri, 2020-07-31 09:15 — mike kraft

European drugmakers Sanofi and GSK strike $2.1 billion deal with U.S. for a coronavirus vaccine The contract is the largest yet from the U.S. government. Carolyn Y. Johnson Washington Post

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XPrize to give $5 million to creator of cheap, fast COVID-19 testing

Thu, 2020-07-30 21:28 — mike kraft

XPrize to give $5 million to creator of cheap, fast COVID-19 testing Google and Amazon are backing it, among others. Shannon Connellan Mashable

Tech giants including Google and Amazon pledged support for a $5 million competition to accelerate cheap and fast COVID-19 testing in the U.S.

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Children may carry coronavirus at high levels, study finds

Thu, 2020-07-30 21:06 — mike kraft

Children may carry coronavirus at high levels, study finds Infected children have at least as much of the coronavirus in their noses and throats as infected adults, according to the research. Indeed, children younger than age 5 may host up to 100 times as much of the virus in the upper respiratory tract as adults, the authors found. Apoorva Mandavilli chicagotribune.com

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Birx and Fauci recommend face masks or googles

Thu, 2020-07-30 16:18 — mike kraft

Birx recommends face shields in addition to masks Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, is recommending the use of face shields along with masks to protect against COVID-19 infection. Jessie Hellmann TheHill

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These 13 states need to lock down now, according to Harvard coronavirus experts

Thu, 2020-07-30 13:57 — mike kraft

A report released this week by the Trump administration’s coronavirus task force warns that 21 states are now in the “red zone” and need to take aggressive steps to slow the spread of COVID-19.

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Old Vaccines May Stop the Coronavirus, Study Hints. Scientists Are Skeptical.

Thu, 2020-07-30 13:16 — mike kraft

Billions of dollars are being invested in the development of vaccines against the coronavirus. Until one arrives, many scientists have turned to tried-and-true vaccines to see whether they may confer broad protection, and may reduce the risk of coronavirus infection, as well.

Old standbys like the Bacille Calmette-Guerin tuberculosis vaccine and the polio vaccine appear to help train the immune system to respond to a broad variety of infections, including from bacteria, viruses and parasites, experts say.

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Understanding the mechanism of virus transmission

Thu, 2020-07-30 12:29 — mike kraft

The Devastating Impact of Infectious Disease Outbreaks - ISSA The impact of having a simple conversation with another person is enough to spread diseases. Eleni Sakas ISSA

By Dr. Gavin Macgregor-Skinner | July 29, 2020

As an epidemiologist or “disease detective,” a question I am frequently asked regarding SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19 disease) is: “How does someone become infected?”

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