REALITE, NC (AP) – Six months ago, Apple Pal and Google unveiled a new smartphone tool Designed to notify people who may be exposed to coronavirus, without disclosing any personal information. But for the most part, Americans are not interested in all that. U.S. Less than half of the states …
Read More »Hungary and Iceland accept ‘immunity passports’. Why not the rest of the world?
(CNN) – With barbed wire and electric fencing on its border and the government’s hostility towards migrants, Hungary’s borders are not always friendly to foreigners. It is during normal time. Amid the epidemic, Hungary has closed its doors to almost everyone, even its European neighbors. Unless, of course, they have …
Read More »If United States Was My Patient: Science Can’t Save Us
I would say that is a very good scenario because it is so close to what we are doing, pre-epidemic, it would seem impossible: to make, test, authenticate, produce not just one, but many vaccines in a surprisingly compressed timeline. And delivering – is definitely one of our greatest recent …
Read More »New COVID-19 test uses smartphone camera and CRISPR genetic technology
The new CRISPR-based test for COVID-19, developed by researchers at the Gladstone Institute, UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco, essentially turns the smartphone camera into a microscope to provide fast and accurate results. Credit: Gladstone Institutions Imagine swabbing your nostrils, swabbing the device, and getting a readout on your phone …
Read More »Covid-19 high blood sugar tied to death risk; U.S. Overdose can be an epidemic of increased mortality
(Reuters) – The following is a roundup of some recent scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find a cure for the disease caused by the virus, Covid-19, and a vaccine. July 21, 2017, A woman puts a gauze on her finger after a blood sugar test at …
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