Tag: health
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CureVac’s COVID-19 shot just failed in a large trial, a major setback for the Gates-backed biotech
An employee of German biopharmaceutical firm CureVac. REUTERS/Andreas Gebert CureVac's experimental COVID-19 vaccine failed in a critical clinical studythat the biotech said Wednesday. It's the first late-stage study to flop, with CureVac's medication demonstrating 47% effectiveness. The German biotech saw its stock price fall by over 50 percent in post-market trading. See more information on…
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Gavin Newsom feared a vaccine nightmare. So he outsourced California’s rollout.
OAKLAND — California’s vaccination rollout was sputtering this year when Gov. Gavin Newsom adopted a remedy favored by Republicans: outsourcing. Barely a month after the initial doses came, the Democrat — who wrote a book on administration innovation, and it has bemoaned California’s obsolete technology — filmed a no-bid deal with insurance giant Blue Shield…
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Here’s where all the COVID-19 vaccine candidates currently stand
Many candidates will fail somewhere along the vaccine development pipeline, which includes 3 rounds of clinical trials using thousands of pools of volunteers to assess its safety, efficacy, and ability to prompt a response in the immune system. (Pixabay/) There are now over 150 different COVID-19 vaccines under growth. Of them, over 50 have reached…
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Lana Del Rey’s Mesh Mask As Useful As Magic Marker On Face, Doctor Says
lanadelrey/Instagram A physician has dubbed Lana Del Rey’s net face mask as useful as ‘drawing with a magic marker’. The Video Games singer was the subject of strong backlash on Saturday, October 3, after she attended a book signing at a Los Angeles Barnes & Noble sporting a mesh mask, at a time when everyone…
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A ‘Zero-Sum Game’: Is the World Defeating Itself in the Covid Olympics?
Michael Piontek believes his native Germany is putting too much money on one vaccine. The reason is Donald Trump. In June, Germany paid a whopping sum for a large stake in German drugmaker CureVac, which was developing a Covid-19 vaccine. Piontek was shocked. “Why CureVac?” he thought. The company’s vaccine is based on promising but…
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Local health authorities say Tesla can begin to restart factory operations on May 18 if proper safety plans are in place
Business Insider/Samantha Lee Local health officials announced on Tuesday that Tesla can begin to maximize its activities at its Fremont, California, factory this week and might have the ability to restart some operations from May 18 if appropriate safety measures are in place and are enforced. At a announcement shared on Twitter on Tuesday, the…
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Whistleblower immunologist to warn of potential coronavirus rebound in the fall, making for the ‘darkest winter in modern history’ during congressional testimony
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services/Handout via REUTERS Whistleblower immunologist Dr. Rick Bright plans to testify to Congress about the threat of a coronavirus rebound in the autumn, and without proper prevention measures:”2020 will be darkest winter in modern history,” he wrote in his prepared testimony. Bright previously worked as director of the Biomedical…
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Tesla hasn’t been given the ‘green light’ to reopen Fremont factory, health official says
Tesla has not yet been awarded the “green light” to start its own factory in Fremont, Calif., Alameda County Health Officer Dr. Erica Pan stated in a videostreamed city hall meeting Friday. Tesla created plans to start as soon as Friday at defiance of this county’s prolonged order. Tesla stated in an email sent Thursday,…
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‘Not Messing Around’: Tesla CEO Files Lawsuit Against County, Local Mayor Issues Statement
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has recently filed a lawsuit against Alameda County, Californiaand after the neighborhood public health division blocked him from resuming business at the company’s production plant in Fremont this past Friday. The lawsuit claims that Alameda County, in which Tesla’s headquarters have been based, empowered itself to shut companies, under the threat…
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THEN AND NOW: Here’s how being a nurse has changed in the last 50 years
Harold Barkley/Getty Images The theme for World Health Day 2020 would be to encourage physicians and midwives, according to the World Health Organization. Fifty decades back, physicians received much less formal education than they do today. Doctors treated nurses more as caregivers and assistants than respected health professionals, based on Nurse.org. Here’s a visual look…