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In world first, UK approves Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine

Wed, 2020-12-02 08:34 — mike kraft

In world first, UK approves Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine Britain approved Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, jumping ahead of the United States and Europe to become the West's first country to formally endorse a jab it said should reach the most vulnerable people early next week. Guy Faulconbridge, Paul Sandle U.S.

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Rapid Testing for Children Barrels Ahead, Despite a Lack of Data

Tue, 2020-12-01 18:40 — mike kraft

As Covid-19 tears across the country, health experts have been calling for increased access to testing that will help track and contain the virus’s swift and often silent spread.

But some of the cheapest and most convenient diagnostic tools on the market might not perform as promised in a crucial contingent of the population, in which they were already being used: children, whose pint-size bodies might make the coronavirus more difficult to detect.

A small but growing body of evidence, some of which has not yet been published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, suggests that some rapid tests for the coronavirus may falter in very young people, letting low-level infections slip by unnoticed.

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Health-care workers and nursing home residents should be the first to get coronavirus vaccines, CDC advisory group says

Tue, 2020-12-01 18:18 — mike kraft

Health-care workers and nursing home residents should be the first to get coronavirus vaccines, CDC advisory group says States are likely to put health-care workers first, as debates over the place of older Americans and front-line workers intensify. Lena H. Sun, Isaac Stanley-Becker Washington Post

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Coronavirus Was In U.S. Weeks Earlier Than Previously Known, Study Says

Tue, 2020-12-01 14:04 — mike kraft

Coronavirus Was In U.S. Weeks Earlier Than Previously Known, Study Says The discovery, uncovered after analyzing blood donations from nine states, strengthens evidence that the coronavirus was quietly spreading around the world before health officials were aware. NPR.org

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Leaked documents reveal China's mishandling of the early stages of Covid-19

Tue, 2020-12-01 12:54 — mike kraft

Leaked documents reveal China's mishandling of the early stages of Covid-19 pandemic Misleading public data, a three-week lag in diagnosing new virus cases, and a previously undeclared regional spike in influenza cases: 117 pages of internal documents show a chaotic and underfunded provincial health care system struggling to confront a mysterious viral outbreak. Exclusive by Nick Paton Walsh, CNN CNN

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WHO calls for reinvigorated action to fight malaria - Global malaria gains threatened by access gaps, COVID-19 and funding shortfalls

Tue, 2020-12-01 12:14 — mike kraft

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The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling on countries and global health partners to step up the fight against malaria, a preventable and treatable disease that continues to claim hundreds of thousands of lives each year. A better targeting of interventions, new tools and increased funding are needed to change the global trajectory of the disease and reach internationally-agreed targets.

According to WHO‘s latest World malaria report, progress against malaria continues to plateau, particularly in high burden countries in Africa. Gaps in access to life-saving tools are undermining global efforts to curb the disease, and the COVID-19 pandemic is expected to set back the fight even further.

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Pandemic has increased poverty and starvation in many countries--UN and OECD studies

Tue, 2020-12-01 12:03 — mike kraft

Pandemic fills ranks of extreme poverty worldwide The coronavirus pandemic is pushing the number of people worldwide who need humanitarian assistance to survive to new highs, the United Nations said on Tuesday, dramatically increasing the ranks of extreme poverty in just one year. Matthew Lavietes U.S.

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European regulator could OK 1st COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 29

Tue, 2020-12-01 11:02 — mike kraft

European regulator could OK 1st COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 29 BERLIN (AP) — European regulators may approve a coronavirus vaccine developed by drugmakers Pfizer and BioNTech within four weeks, the EU’s drug agency said Tuesday, a time frame that could mean... AP NEWS

BERLIN (AP) — European regulators may approve a coronavirus vaccine developed by drugmakers Pfizer and BioNTech within four weeks, the EU’s drug agency said Tuesday, a time frame that could mean the shot is rolled out first in the United States and Britain.

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Vaccines may be ready for Christmas as U.S. braces for post-Thanksgiving virus surge

Mon, 2020-11-30 19:33 — mike kraft

Vaccines may be ready for Christmas as U.S. braces for post-Thanksgiving virus surge After a Thanksgiving weekend when the number of people traveling through U.S. airports reached its highest since mid-March, a top government official said on Monday some Americans could begin receiving coronavirus vaccinations before Christmas. Doina Chiacu, Steve Gorman U.S.

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Should Isolation Periods Be Shorter for People With Covid-19?Should Isolation Periods Be Shorter for People With Covid-19?

Mon, 2020-11-30 12:17 — mike kraft

People with Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, are most infectious about two days before symptoms begin and for five days afterward, according to a new analysis of previous research.

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