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November 2020
THE ECONOMIST | A vaccine against the virus
Source: The Economist THIS WEEK the world had something to celebrate. On November 9th Pfizer and BioNTech, two pharmaceutical companies, reported that their covid-19 vaccine had been 90% effective in trials. The news also [...]
IATA Travel Pass
To re-open borders without quarantine and restart aviation governments need to be confident that they are effectively mitigating the risk of importing COVID-19. This means having accurate information on passengers’ [...]
SCIENCE | Important Discoveries | COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2
From +23,000 scientific reports on COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 we have curated a handful: Additional references on ECAM Twitter Nov 24. Epidemiology; Transmission Transmission heterogeneities, kinetics, and controllability of SARS-CoV-2 - [...]
MEET THE PRESS | Full Operation Warp Speed Chief: ‘Within 24 hours’ of approval, vaccine will be available to states
Moncef Slaoui, Chief Adviser, Operation Warp Speed, talks to Meet the Press about the safety and efficacy of the coronavirus vaccines. Nov. 22, 2020 Source: NBC News Reprinted for educational [...]
ABC NEWS | Operation Warp Speed adviser concerned about vaccine skepticism ‘exacerbated’ by ‘political context’
In a poll, over 40% of Americans unwilling to receive FDA-approved COVID vaccine Source: ABC News Reprinted for educational purposes and social benefit, not for profit. The chief science adviser [...]
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN | The Denialist Playbook | On vaccines, evolution, and more, rejection of science has followed a familiar pattern
Science denial goes back at least as far as the polio vaccine in the 1950s. Credit: Getty Images Source: Scientific American By Sean B. Carroll on November 8, 2020 Reprinted [...]
THE SUN | VACCINE ROLL OUT | Everyone in Britain will have Covid vaccine by April, leaked docs reveal
EVERY adult will be vaccinated against Covid by April under radical NHS plans to bring an end to the pandemic, leaked documents reveal. Health Secretary Matt Hancock tonight said the [...]
THE TELEGRAPH | Life may be back to normal by next summer, one of world’s leading vaccine experts says
Dr Richard Hatchett of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations tells The Telegraph breakthroughs are 'tremendously exciting' Source: The Telegraph By Anne Gulland 20 November 2020 • 5:03pm Reprinted for [...]
Washington Post | A traveler tested negative for covid-19 before a flight. He had the virus and infected 4 passengers.
The study details an outbreak linked to one passenger on an 18-hour flight from Dubai to New Zealand in September. Source: Washington Post Reprinted for educational purposes and social benefit, [...]
SCIENCE | Test sensitivity is secondary to frequency and turnaround time for COVID-19 screening
Test sensitivity is secondary to frequency and turnaround time for COVID-19 screening Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has created a public health crisis. Because SARS-CoV-2 can spread from individuals with pre-symptomatic, [...]
INTERACTIVE MAP | Human Infection Studies Sites
Source: Google Maps Reprinted for educational purposes and social benefit, not for profit. SITE LOCATIONS Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine St George's, University of London University of York, Centre for [...]
DAILY MAIL | Deadly spread of anti-vaxx fanatics: Covid vaccines contain tiny microchips. The jabs can turn you into a monkey… Wild conspiracies, yes – but medical and security experts say the cultists behind them are a major threat to global health
Some experts say ‘anti-vaxxers’ pose a bigger threat than the coronavirus itself Andrew Wakefield is at the forefront of fuelling paranoia about Covid vaccines But the discredited former doctor has acquired [...]
BBC NEWS | YouTube, Facebook and Twitter align to fight Covid vaccine conspiracies [coordinated by Full Fact]
Three of the largest social networks have said they will join forces with fact-checkers, governments and researchers to try to come up with a new way of tackling misinformation. Reprinted [...]
THE NEW YORK TIMES | Immunity to the Coronavirus May Last Years
New Data Hint Blood samples from recovered patients suggest a powerful, long-lasting immune response, researchers reported. By Apoorva Mandavilli Source: The New York Times Reprinted for educational purposes and social [...]
CNN | SeaDream cancels remaining 2020 cruises following Covid outbreak
(CNN) — SeaDream Yacht Club is canceling the rest of its 2020 cruises in the wake of a Covid-19 outbreak on board one of its ships last week. "Multiple negative [...]
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON | Long Covid | COVID-19 lung damage caused by persistence of ‘abnormal cells’ | Investigations of deceased COVID-19 patients have shed light on possible lung damage caused by the virus.
Persistence of viral RNA, pneumocyte syncytia and thrombosis are hallmarks of advanced COVID-19 pathology - The Lancet EBioMedicine Download PDF Source: Kings College London Reprinted for educational purposes and social [...]
CBS 60 Minutes | Inside the Operation Warp Speed effort to get Americans a COVID-19 vaccine (video)
David Martin reports on the military efforts underway to inoculate 300 million Americans with an anticipated COVID-19 vaccine. https://cbsn.ws/3kb3DjG Reprinted for educational purposes and social benefit, not for profit.
MEET THE PRESS | Dr. Michael Osterholm: ‘Our future’s in our hands’ on virus spread
Michael Osterholm, Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota; Member, Biden Transition Covid-19 Advisory Board, talks about the record-breaking covid cases, during an [...]
THE GUARDIAN | Damage to multiple organs recorded in ‘long Covid’ cases
Multi-organ impairment in low-risk individuals with long COVID - medRxiv Exclusive: study of low-risk individuals finds impairments four months after infection. Young and previously healthy people with ongoing symptoms of [...]
BBC NEWS | Covid-19: Stop anti-vaccination fake news online with new law says Labour
Emergency laws to "stamp out dangerous" anti-vaccine content online should be introduced, Labour has said. The party is calling for financial and criminal penalties for social media firms that do [...]
KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET | Baricitinib treatment linked to reduced mortality in COVID-19 patients | JAK inhibition reduces SARS-CoV-2 liver infectivity and modulates inflammatory responses to reduce morbidity and mortality
JAK inhibition reduces SARS-CoV-2 liver infectivity and modulates inflammatory responses to reduce morbidity and mortality ABSTRACT. Using AI we identified baricitinib as possessing anti-viral and anti-cytokine efficacy. We now show [...]
IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON | UK researchers to explore human challenge studies for COVID-19 | RFL | Royal Free London joins world-leading COVID-19 study partnership
Researchers are set to explore a human challenge study with the virus that causes COVID-19, the first such study anywhere in the world. The Human Challenge Programme is a partnership [...]
REUTERS | One in five COVID-19 patients develop mental illness within 90 days | THE LANCET | Bidirectional associations between COVID-19 and psychiatric disorder: retrospective cohort studies of 62 354 COVID-19 cases in the USA
Bidirectional associations between COVID-19 and psychiatric disorder: retrospective cohort studies of 62 354 COVID-19 cases in the USA - THE LANCET LONDON (Reuters) - Many COVID-19 survivors are likely to be [...]
HARVARD LAW | COVID-19 Vaccine Advance Purchases Explained
Source: Harvard Law August 11, 2020 The Petrie-Flom Center Staff Contributors, FDA, Health Law Policy, Human Subjects Research, Intellectual Property, Jacob Sherkow, Nicholson Price, Patient Care, Pharmaceuticals, Public Health, Rachel Sachs, Scientific Evidence, Vaccines Cross-posted from Written Description, where it originally appeared on August 5, [...]
THE ECONOMIST | Rich countries grab half of projected covid-19 vaccine supply | Less-well-off countries may have to wait years to inoculate their people
Source: The Economist AS A SECOND wave of coronavirus infections sweeps through Europe, and America continues to break daily records for new covid-19 cases, the need for a vaccine is [...]
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