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OPINON Essay: As Pandemic Rages on, Some Optimism --NYT science writer srter

Wed, 2020-10-14 15:27 — mike kraft

....Clearly, the pandemic has not ended. So far some 215,000 Americans have lost their lives to the coronavirus, and reliable estimates suggest that the number could reach 400,000. Health experts agree that, with stronger leadership, the death toll would have been far lower.

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Coronavirus Reinfections Are Real but Very, Very Rare

Wed, 2020-10-14 12:57 — mike kraft

Reports of reinfection with the coronavirus evoke a nightmarish future: Repeat bouts of illness, impotent vaccines, unrelenting lockdowns — a pandemic without an end.

A case study published Monday, about a 25-year-old man in Nevada, has stoked those fears anew. The man, who was not named, became sicker the second time that he was infected with the virus, a pattern the immune system is supposed to prevent.

But these cases make the news precisely because they are rare, experts said: More than 38 million people worldwide have been infected with the coronavirus, and as of Monday, fewer than five of those cases have been confirmed by scientists to be reinfections.

“That’s tiny — it’s like a microliter-sized drop in the bucket, compared to the number of cases that have happened all over the world,” said Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at Columbia University in New York.

In most cases, a second bout with the virus produced milder symptoms or none at all. But for at least three people, including one patient in Ecuador, the illness was more severe the second time around than during the first infection. An 89-year-old woman in the Netherlands died during her second illness.

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A 25-year-old man becomes first in the U.S. to contract coronavirus twice, with second infection ‘more severe’

Tue, 2020-10-13 10:26 — mike kraft

A 25-year-old man becomes first in the U.S. to contract coronavirus twice, with second infection 'more severe' It is the first confirmed case of a U.S. patient becoming re-infected with Covid-19, and the fifth known case reported worldwide. Sam Meredith CNBC

It is the first confirmed case of a U.S. patient becoming re-infected with Covid-19, and the fifth known case reported worldwide.

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So frustrating': Doctors and nurses battle virus skeptics

Mon, 2020-10-12 11:28 — mike kraft

'So frustrating': Doctors and nurses battle virus skeptics MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Treating the sick and dying isn't even the toughest part for nurse Amelia Montgomery as the coronavirus surges in her corner of red America. It's dealing with patients... AP NEWS

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Abbott wins U.S. emergency use authorization for new COVID-19 antibody test

Mon, 2020-10-12 10:54 — mike kraft

Abbott wins U.S. emergency use authorization for new COVID-19 antibody test Abbott Laboratories <ABT.N> said on Monday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued an emergency use authorization for its lab-based COVID-19 antibody blood test. Reuters Staff U.S.

(Reuters) - Abbott Laboratories ABT.N said on Monday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued an emergency use authorization for its lab-based COVID-19 antibody blood test.

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Regeneron CEO: Trump ‘is a case of one’ and ‘weakest evidence’ for Covid-19 treatment

Sun, 2020-10-11 17:33 — mike kraft

Regeneron CEO: Trump ‘is a case of one’ and ‘weakest evidence’ for Covid-19 treatment He says “large clinical trials” are still needed. Connor O’Brien POLITICO

Regeneron chief executive Leonard Schleifer on Sunday said President Donald Trump's treatment with the company's experimental antibody cocktail is "a case of one," but stressed ongoing clinical trials still need to show its efficacy.

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Coronavirus cases set new single-day records in six U.S. states and worldwide

Sun, 2020-10-11 10:23 — mike kraft

Coronavirus cases set new single-day records in 6 U.S. states Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio said, "We're sick of wearing masks, we're sick of all of this, and I get it, but we've got to hang in there for our kids. We've got to hang in there for ourselves." NBC News

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Antibody drugs are no cure but seem promising for COVID-19

Fri, 2020-10-09 18:02 — mike kraft

Antibody drugs are no cure but seem promising for COVID-19 WASHINGTON (AP) — They’re not cures and it’s not likely that everyone will be able to get them as President Donald Trump has suggested. But experimental antibody drugs like the one Trump was given... AP NEWS

WASHINGTON (AP) — They’re not cures and it’s not likely that everyone will be able to get them as President Donald Trump has suggested. But experimental antibody drugs like the one Trump was given are among the most promising therapies being tested for treating and preventing coronavirus infections.

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Trump pushes FDA to quickly clear coronavirus antibody treatments, erroneously calling them a ‘cure’

Fri, 2020-10-09 12:46 — mike kraft

Trump pushes FDA to quickly clear coronavirus antibody treatments, erroneously calling them a ‘cure’ He vows the drug will soon be broadly available to Americans — even as the company says it would have enough this fall to treat only the number of Americans sickened in the past week. Carolyn Y. Johnson, Laurie McGinley, Josh Dawsey Washington Post

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New Zealand Stamps Out the Virus. For a Second Time.

Wed, 2020-10-07 20:20 — mike kraft

The first time New Zealand thought it had eliminated the coronavirus from its isolated shores, a mysterious outbreak in its largest city shattered any sense of victory over a tenacious foe.

Now, after a second round of strict lockdown, the country believes — if a bit more tentatively this time — that it has effectively stamped out the virus once again.

On Wednesday, New Zealand moved to lift the last of its restrictions in Auckland after 10 days with no new cases linked to a cluster that first surfaced in August. The government will now allow unrestricted gatherings, and trips on public transit without social distancing or masks, in the city of 1.6 million people.

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