Source: CBS News Researchers at DARPA and the Pentagon have developed a microchip that can detect Covid-19 when inserted under the skin. Bill Whitaker talks with Matt Hepburn. An army infectious disease physician, that spent years with the secretive defense advanced research projects agency or DARPA. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, operates under the [ »» ]
Source: Global Times The so-called open letter written by 24 researchers from Europe, US, Australia and Japan on a new probe into COVID-19 origins is merely aimed at pressuring the World Health Organization and members of its expert team, and the COVID-19 origins-tracing work is indeed being hindered by politics, not from China, but [ »» ]
Source: Global Times by Chen Qingqing, Zhao Yusha and Cao Siqi If WHO scientists cannot find the answer in China regarding coronavirus origins, maybe it’s time for scientists to dig somewhere else and test more hypotheses to solve the mystery, Chinese scientists from the WHO-China virus tracing team suggested, after a joint WHO-China report on tracing the [ »» ]
Source: Bloomberg by Andreas Kluth With coronavirus mutations pitted against vaccinations in a global arms race, we may never go back to normal. For the past year, an assumption — sometimes explicit, often tacit — has informed almost all our thinking about the pandemic: At some point, it will be over, and then we’ll [ »» ]
Source: Global Times by Liu Caiyu and Leng Shumei WHO experts who recently visited Wuhan slammed the New York Times for twisting their words and casting shadows over the efforts to uncover the origins of the virus, after the newspaper accused China of refusing to hand over sensitive data to WHO experts. Chinese observers said [ »» ]
Source: Rule of Law Society & Foundation, New York by Li-Meng Yan (MD, PhD), Shu Kang (PhD), Jie Guan (PhD), Shanchang Hu (PhD) The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has led to over 910,000 deaths worldwide and unprecedented decimation of the global economy. Despite its tremendous impact, the origin of SARS-CoV-2 [ »» ]
Source: The Telegraph by Georgina Hayes Mask wearing might also be reducing the severity of the virus and ensuring that a greater proportion of new infections are asymptomatic Face masks may be inadvertently giving people Covid-19 immunity and making them get less sick from the virus, academics have suggested in one of the most [ »» ]
Source: Washington Post by Chico Harlan and Stefano Pitrelli BERGAMO, Italy — The first wave is over, thousands have been buried, and in a city that was once the world’s coronavirus epicenter, the hospital is calling back the survivors. It is drawing their blood, examining their hearts, scanning their lungs, asking them about their [ »» ]
Source: Strategic Culture by Eric Zuesse There are basically two different policy-approaches to the coronavirus problem: One is the passive approach, waiting for ‘herd immunity’ to develop naturally. And the other is the active approach, in which the Government does take action — not just wait while the most-vulnerable individuals die off from the [ »» ]
Source: Business Insider by John Haltiwanger Trump knew far more about the threat of COVID-19 than he publicly acknowledged in the early months of the outbreak, newly released recordings revealed. Recordings of interviews between President Donald Trump and veteran journalist Bob Woodward show that the commander in chief knew far more about the deadly [ »» ]
Source: Reuters af Daniel Trotta U.S. deaths from the coronavirus will reach 410,000 by the end of the year, more than double the current death toll, and deaths could soar to 3,000 per day in December, the University of Washington’s health institute forecast on Friday. Deaths could be reduced by 30% if more Americans [ »» ]
Source: Medium-Elemental by Thomas Smith A closer look at the Bradykinin hypothesis Earlier this summer, the Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee set about crunching data on more than 40,000 genes from 17,000 genetic samples in an effort to better understand Covid-19. Summit is the second-fastest computer in the world, but [ »» ]
Kilde: Sputnik News On 12 August, Russia become the first country in the world to register a vaccine against the new coronavirus. The fact that the vaccine was approved before large-scale safety trials prompted disbelief on both sides of the Atlantic – but now health authorities there say they might do the same. A [ »» ]
Source: Sputnik News A recent analysis by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that 94% of American patients who have died from COVID-19 had other underlying health conditions. According to the data released on August 26, only 9,683 deaths (6%) had COVID-19 listed as the only cause, which means that [ »» ]
Source: The Moscow Times by Jake Cordell Analysis of excess fatalities show regions may be underreporting deaths from Covid-19. The death toll from the coronavirus across many Russian regions could be many times higher than official statistics show, analysis of new data by The Moscow Times suggests. Experts pointed to systemic underreporting of deaths, [ »» ]
“Our findings revealed possible disruption to micro-structural and functional brain integrity in the recovery stages of COVID-19, suggesting neuro-invasion potential of SARS-CoV-2. This requires attention since even if the patients recover well from the pneumonia condition, the neurological changes may cause a great burden. More research in the mechanism and route of neuro-invasion of [ »» ]
Kilde: RFE/RL Governments in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan are adding pneumonia cases most likely caused by the coronavirus to their overall pandemic totals even though they were undetected at the time. The move, which will cause a jump in virus-related deaths, comes as many Central Asian nations struggle to curb the spread of the virus [ »» ]
Source: Verity Base by Ole Dupont How many cases with ‘Suspicion of COVID-19’, have there been through the emergency departments and the Danish doctor and hospital system since the pandemic broke out? What are the figures for the last twelve months? Measured on the same parameters in relation to 2019-nCoV-like symptoms and measured across [ »» ]
Source: Forbes by William A. Haseltine Two new studies, though from different parts of the world, have arrived at the same conclusion: that young children not only transmit SARS-CoV-2 efficiently, but may be major drivers of the pandemic as well. The first, which was published in JAMA yesterday, reports findings from a pediatric hospital [ »» ]
Source: Cell Therapy Institute (Wuhan, China) by Peter K. Law Abstract This is a succinct and current review of pertinent literature to guide developing serum therapy as an emergent treatment to save human lives at times of natural or genetically engineered viral/bacterial pandemics. The origin of 2019-nCoV and implications of COVID-19 are discussed using direct quotes [ »» ]
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