Month: September 2020

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>> I THINK IT IS PRETTY CLEAR WHEN YOU LOOK AT KIND OF THE PEAK IN THE STATE THAT OPENING SCHOOLS IS PROBABLY CONTRIBUTED BECAUSE YOU HAVE MORE KIDS POTENTIALLY INFECTED. CHRISTINE: DR. BRATZLER SAYS HE BELIEVES THE RECENT SPIKE IN CASES AND HOSPITALIZATIONS IS A COMBINATION OF DIFFERENT FACTORS. >> KIDS GOING BACK TO SCHOOL, CORRECTIONAL FACILITY OUTBREAKS, PERHAPS SOME FROM THE LABOR DAY WEEKEND BECAUSE IT FOLLOWED IT BY ABOUT TWO WEEKS. CHRISTINE: AND THERE’S A CERTAIN AGE GROUP DR. BRATZLER SAYS IS SEEING THE LARGEST INCREASE IN CASES. >> THAT IS THE LARGEST GROUP OF NEW CASES IN OKLAHOMA SO THAT TAKES YOU FROM ESSENTIALLY ALL YOUR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS UP THROUGH COLLEGE STUDENTS, 15 TO WAS THE MOST NEW CASES IN THE 24 STATE. CHRISTINE: AND YOU CAN SEE THE...

Timothy Ray Brown, who made history as “the Berlin patient,” the first person known to be cured of HIV infection, has died. He was 54. Brown died Tuesday at his home in Palm Springs, California, according to a social media post by his partner, Tim Hoeffgen. The cause was a return of the cancer that originally prompted the unusual bone marrow and stem cell transplants Brown received in 2007 and 2008, which for years seemed to have eliminated both his leukemia and HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. “Timothy symbolized that it is possible, under special circumstances,” to rid a patient of HIV -- something that many scientists had doubted could be done, said Dr. Gero Huetter, the Berlin physician who led Brown’s historic treatment. “It’s a very sad situation” that cancer returned and took his...

Time travel is possible based on the laws of physics, according to new calculations from researchers at the University of Queensland. But time-travelers wouldn't be able to alter the past in a measurable way, they say — the future would stay the same.  Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Imagine you could hop into a time machine, press a button, and journey back to 2019, before the new coronavirus made the leap from animals to humans.   What if you could find and isolate patient zero? Theoretically, the pandemic wouldn't happen, right?  Not quite, because then future-you wouldn't have decided to time travel in the first place. For decades, physicists have been studying and debating versions of this paradox: If we could travel back in time and ch...

In media appearances and talks with investors, Pfizer’s chief executive nearly always mentions a word that is so politically perilous, most of his competitors shy away from it: October. “Right now, our model — our best case — predicts that we will have an answer by the end of October,” the chief executive, Dr. Albert Bourla, told the “Today” show earlier this month. In other interviews, he has said he expected a “conclusive readout” by then, with an application for emergency authorization that could be filed “immediately.” Dr. Bourla’s statements have put his company squarely in the sights of President Trump, who has made no secret of his desire for positive vaccine news to boost his chances on Election Day, Nov. 3. “We’re going to have a vaccine very soon. Maybe even before a very speci...