Tenet is finally here! Well, not over here, in the United States. Mar over here, in the wider world – a world that treats the coronavirus pandemic much more responsibly than we have and therefore deserves fun things as a reward. But this is new Christopher Nolan spy thriller good …
Read More »97,000 people received convalescent plasma. Who knows if it works?
On Wednesday, The New York Times reported that in light of the current lack of efficacy data, the FDA has put plans in place to issue an Emergency Use Authorization to treat anyone with Covid-19 with convalescent plasma, even outside the Mayo led program. (In an email, Anand Shah, Deputy …
Read More »Trump administration says FDA will no longer need premarket evaluation of certain lab tests, including some Covid-19 tests
The announcement – which one expert said was part of a “bureaucratic fight” between HHS and FDA – states that the FDA does not require a premarket evaluation of laboratory-developed tests and this move is “part of HHS’s ongoing department-wide review. of regulatory flexibility introduced since the launch of COVID-19. …
Read More »CDC principal supports re-education of schools; Pfizer draws curtain on fax data
Centers for Director Robert Redfield strongly advocates for the reopening of U.S. schools Friday, even as colleges and universities around the country are forced to close their doors too early for the fall session, to a rise in COVID-19 infections to contain. Amid an agonizing national debate over whether and …
Read More »Sea level rise is accelerating as Greenland ice sheet hits record highs
Until 2000, the Greenland ice sheet accumulated as much mass as it smelt Greenland’s major ice block saw a record net loss of 532 billion tonnes last year, raising red flags over accelerating sea level rise, according to new findings. That is equivalent to an extra three million tons of …
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