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During a round of press he did on Tuesday, White House health advisor Anthony Fauci referred to COVID-19 as his “worst nightmare,” and warned that the world’s fight against the pandemic is not nearly a wrap. As Fauci put it, the virus is “something that’s highly transmissible. … In a period—if you just think about it—in a […]
Antibody tests for COVID-19 could be inaccurate up to half the time, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The agency, as spotted by CNN on Tuesday, makes note of this in a new guidance message posted to the Interim Guidelines for COVID-19 Antibody Testing section of its official site. The CDC—following similar cautionary assessments […]
A black light experiment depicted in a viral video from Japan‘s NHK public broadcasting organization shows just how widely and quickly germs can spread, particularly during the COVID-19 era. The video marks a collaboration between NHK and regional health experts and shows 10 people, one of whom represents an “infected” individual, entering a buffet-style restaurant. […]
Bill Oakley, former producer and writer for The Simpsons, is admitting to something we knew all along. The long-running animated series predicted practically everything that has happened in 2020. In the 1993 episode titled “Marge in Chains,” which Oakley is credited as a co-writer, an outbreak of the flu occurs in Springfield after a sick factory worker in […]
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the country has “currently” eliminated the coronavirus. During a briefing on COVID-19 in Wellington on Monday, Ardern confirmed that the country would be easing the lockdown over the coming days and weeks. “There is no widespread undetected community transmission in New Zealand. We have won that battle,” Ardern […]
World Health Organization spokeswoman Fadela Chaib said in a news briefing on Tuesday that the science suggests the coronavirus more than likely came from an animal, dispelling a conspiracy theory that the virus originated in a lab in China. “It’s probable, likely, that the virus is of animal origin,” Chaib said, per USA Today. In a […]
A newly published report has offered a glimmer hope in the ongoing fight against coronavirus. According to STAT News, COVID-19 patients at a Chicago hospital have experienced “rapid recoveries in fever and respiratory symptoms,” after receiving treatments of remdesivir—an antiviral medicine developed by Gilead Sciences Inc. The outlet cites data from the University of Chicago Medicine, where 125 coronavirus patients were […]
The U.S. may have to endure another two years of social distancing. According to a modeling study published in the journal Science, Harvard researchers found these precautionary measures could be necessary until 2022 to prevent another coronavirus outbreak. Epidemiologists used computer models that created a range of possible scenarios of the pandemic’s course over the next five years. These simulations included variables like the […]
The New England Patriots team plane is set to deliver over a million N95 masks from China to the United States, the Wall Street Journal reports. Patriots owner Robert Kraft spent $2 million of his own money to purchase the masks, and after jumping through loads of red tape, the masks are set to land in Boston on Thursday […]
Perhaps tapping into an idea first used by the state of New York (I think, I don’t monitor these), California mined their well of more senior celebrities for the sake of making a PSA telling you to self-quarantine for an indeterminate amount of time. Probably forever. The celebrity they’re hoping gets through to those who […]
