Yes, racial diversity is another good reason for going to the UAE.
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Yes, racial diversity is another good reason for going to the UAE.
Incidentally, the Serum Instituted has -- never mind Phase III. As there is no guarantee that India's generic production process would yield the same vaccine as Oxford's, the latter's early Phase III trial may not be relevant. If the Serum Institute is indeed before even going through Phase II, they are taking a big risk.
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Not a great idea safety-wise to suddenly vaccinate hundreds of millions of people with a new vaccine that has had its safety trial sped through.
Better to start vaccinating people at the pace of the capacity of the vaccine production and take it as some sort of a Phase IV trial (with a lot more people) to like compensate for the shortcut taken through its safety trial.
This is unbelievable, it would be so funny if it wasn't so serious.
vesicles
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Apparently I was wrong about not able to find an effective antiviral drug soon. And I am glad about that. The Methodist hospital at the Texas Medical Center now shows that an existing drug, Aviptadil, is highly effective on COVID-19. Aviptadil is a peptide drug, has been around for about 20 years and has originally been used to treat ED. Patients with Critical COVID-19 were seen to have a rapid clearing of classic pneumonitis findings on x-ray, within 4 days. Although very promising, the study is still on-going. Don't start popping Aviptadil just yet!
manqiangrexue
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California virus cases underreported, health official says
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Figures showing California has slowed the rate of coronavirus infections may be in doubt because a technical problem has delayed reporting of test results, the state's top health official said.
For days, California hasn't received full counts on the number of tests conducted nor the number that come back positive for COVID-19, Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said Tuesday.
He blamed an unspecified technical problem affecting the state's database that provides test results to local health departments. Ghaly said it's unclear when the issue would be fixed, adding that the state is relaying information manually to county health officials.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Figures showing California has slowed the rate of coronavirus infections may be in doubt because a technical problem has delayed reporting of test results, the state's top health official said.
For days, California hasn't received full counts on the number of tests conducted nor the number that come back positive for COVID-19, Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said Tuesday.
He blamed an unspecified technical problem affecting the state's database that provides test results to local health departments. Ghaly said it's unclear when the issue would be fixed, adding that the state is relaying information manually to county health officials.