Month: July 2020

BEIJING (AP) — The head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention says he has been injected with an experimental coronavirus vaccine in an attempt to persuade the public to follow suit when one is approved. “I’m going to reveal something undercover: I am injected with one of the vaccines,” Gao Fu said in a webinar Sunday hosted by Alibaba Health, an arm of the Chinese e-commerce giant, and Cell Press, an American publisher of scientific journals. “I hope it will work.” The Associated Press reported earlier this month that a state-owned Chinese company injected employees with experimental shots in March, even before the government-approved testing in people — a move that raised ethical concerns among some experts. Gao did not say when or how he took the vaccine candidate, l...

WASHINGTON — Democrats, nonwhites and elderly Americans are all significantly more likely to say they wear protective masks every time they leave home, new polling data show, as measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus continue to be polarized and case counts in the U.S. reach new heights. The new NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Tracking Poll found that 97 percent of Democrats and those who lean Democratic say they wear masks at least most of the time when they leave their homes and might be in contact with others (86 percent say they wear masks "every time," while 11 percent say they do so "most of the time"). Seventy percent of Republicans and those who lean Republican say the same (48 percent say "every time" and 22 percent say "most of the time"). Among independents, 71 percen...

People wait in line outside a testing site in Florida. The state has seen unprecedented surges in coronavirus cases in recent weeks. Lynne Sladky/AP hide caption toggle caption Lynne Sladky/AP People wait in line outside a testing site in Florida. The state has seen unprecedented surges in coronavirus cases in recent weeks. Lynne Sladky/AP When the coronavirus pandemic bega...

FOX Business’ Edward Lawrence reports on the Trump administration’s deal with companies like Fujifilm for the development of a coronavirus vaccine. Then, The Wall Street Journal editorial page deputy editor Dan Henninger discusses investing in biotech companies and the upcoming presidential election. Can you get the coronavirus twice? Scientists don’t know for sure yet, but they believe it’s unlikely. GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HERE Health experts think people who had COVID-19 will have some immunity against a repeat infection. But they don’t know how much protection or how long it would last. There have been reports of people testing positive for the virus weeks after they were believed to have recovered, leading some to think they may have been reinfected. More li...

Vaccines are “remarkably safe,” a new study by researchers from Tel Aviv University and Sourasky Medical Center has shown. The group, led by Dr. Daniel Shepshelovich of TAU’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine, studied 57 vaccines that were approved by the US Food and Drug Administration between 1996 and 2015 that yielded 58 safety-related issues associated with 25 of them. A large proportion of safety issues were identified through the FDA’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), and those which were identified were of limited clinical significance, rare and not life-threatening, the study found. It said this indicates that the initial approval process is solid and proves “the robustness of the vaccine approval system and post-marketing surveillance,” as well as its relia...

Mahoning and Trumbull counties are seeing some upticks, while the numbers are down in Columbiana and Mercer counties by: Stan Boney Posted: Jul 27, 2020 / 09:10 PM EDT / Updated: Jul 27, 2020 / 10:51 PM EDT (WKBN) – The number of new COVID-19 cases in Ohio fell last week compared to the week before — but not by much. Mahoning and Trumbull counties are seeing some upticks, while the numbers are down in Columbiana and Mercer counties. Latest local county-by-county COVID-19 numbers The state of Ohio started the month with 6,900 new cases but since then, the number has risen substantially. New cases in Ohio July 6: 6,910 July 13: 8,897 July 20: 9,315 July 27: 9,009 Deaths in Ohio, like cases, went way up ...

In a test of antiviral effectiveness against the virus that causes COVID-19, an extract from edible seaweeds substantially outperformed remdesivir, the current standard antiviral used to combat the disease. Credit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Heparin, a common anitcoagulent, could also form basis of a viral trap for SARS-CoV-2. In a test of antiviral effectiveness against the virus that causes COVID-19, an extract from edible seaweeds substantially outperformed remdesivir, the current standard antiviral used to combat the disease. Heparin, a common blood thinner, and a heparin variant stripped of its anticoagulant properties, performed on par with remdesivir in inhibiting SARS-CoV-2 infection in mammalian cells. Published online on July 24, 2020, in Cell Discovery1, the res...