June 30, 2021 ~ Bloomberg News ~ By Michelle Fay Cortez A Wuhan Scientist Speaks Out One of the enduring questions around the coronavirus pandemic is what triggered it, an issue now mired in geopolitical intrigue and scientific speculation. Finding an answer is...
Coordinating care among different specialties could help patients with many problems and no proved therapies By Melba Newsome Since testing positive for COVID on December 10, 2020, 47-year-old Sherry Flynn of Goldsboro, N.C., has been plagued by a long list of...
Are you vaccinated or not? There’s subtle and not so subtle pressure building across America and, depending on where one lives, that tension mounts at an accelerated pace as two Americas emerge from the pandemic, one that just got the two jabs, no questions asked, and...
Health Canada said late on Tuesday it has recommended that people with a history of capillary leak syndrome not be inoculated with drugmaker AstraZeneca's (AZN.L) COVID-19 vaccine. "Health Canada is updating the product monograph - or label - for the AstraZeneca and...
From Kaiser Family Foundation: The KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor is an ongoing research project tracking the public’s attitudes and experiences with COVID-19 vaccinations. Using a combination of surveys and qualitative research, this project tracks the dynamic nature...
Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) conducted its 14th meeting of the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD), held virtually from June 22 to June 24, 2021. Known as STAG (Strategic and Technical Advisory Group), the...
June 30, 2021 by Donnie Yance The mRNA vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna have been heavily promoted for ending the Covid-19 pandemic. With claims that they are ‘extraordinary’ and ‘revolutionary,’ these vaccines have occupied center stage for more than a year. The...
June 29, 2021 ~ TrialSite News ~ Swedish-Anglo Study in Turkey Reveals Metabolic Activators Reduce COVID-19 Duration by 3.5 Days—Now Submission for Approval in Turkey A group of Swedish, English and Turkish researchers found that the use of metabolic activators can...
— Here's the latest on transmissibility, virulence, vaccine efficacy, and more by Kristina Fiore, MedPage Today With reports about the more transmissible Delta variant, and now "Delta plus," taking the media by storm, here are the essential facts when it comes to the...
June 29, 2021 ~ The New York Times ~ by Carl Zimmer Mixing Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines provides strong protection, according to a preliminary study. Early results from a British vaccine study suggest that mixing different brands of vaccines can provoke a...
June 29, 2021 ~ The New York Times ~ by Apoorva Mandavilli A study finds that the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines could offer protection for years. The vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna set off a persistent immune reaction in the body that may protect against...
June 29, 2021 ~ New York Times ~ by Roni Caryn Rabin W.H.O. Urges Masking for the Vaccinated, in Split With C.D.C Another city in Australia enters a lockdown as the Delta variant spreads. Mixing vaccines from Pfizer and AstraZeneca provides strong immunity,...
June 27, 2021 ~ TrialSite News ~ Andrew Bannister Conflict of Interest in WHO Recommendation Against Ivermectin All dangerous diseases are best treated early. A major failure of the global COVID-19 strategy has been to wait a week for the disease to become dangerous,...
June 27, 2021 ~ The Guardian ~ by Natalie Grover Delta Covid variant may be edging race against vaccines Analysis: research suggests ‘scarily fleeting’ contact could infect, and that places with high jab rates are susceptible The transmission advantage of the Delta...
June 25, 2021 ~ TK News ~ Matt Taibbi Ivermectin: Can a Drug Be "Right-Wing"? A potential Covid-19 treatment has become hostage to a larger global fight between populists and anti-populists On December 31st of last year, an 80 year-old Buffalo-area woman named Judith...