This week was to be a momentous occasion in the public health of the Bay Area. The International AIDS Conference, the world’s largest gathering of scientists, doctors, activists, and people living with AIDS, returned to San Francisco for the first time in 30 years. But in the shadow of a …
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The Memorial Tournament has decided to go spectatorless next week at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio. The tournament hosted by golf legend Jack Nicklaus was the first of the PGA Tour events on the reconfigured calendar to allow for a minimum number of spectators. The plan was to …
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The World Health Organization (WHO) said Saturday that it suspended studies evaluating AbbVie’s hydroxychloroquine and ABBV, + 0.56% HIV medicine Kaletra as possible treatments for COVID-19. The WHO has conducted a multiple clinical trial testing a handful of potential treatments in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 since late March. “These interim …
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One expert cautioned that relying on immunity to Covid-19 as a strategy to deal with the pandemic is not a “safe bet,” adding that mass immunity strategies “will probably never work.” Speaking to CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe” on Monday, Danny Altmann, professor of immunology at Imperial College London, said that …
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This, in Donald Milton’s opinion, is the perfect situation to spread the coronavirus. Not only could people transmit the virus directly from one to the other in the tiny droplets we all spray to one degree or another when we speak, laugh, or sing; But those little drops also rise …
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