The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on Sunday that it had issued an emergency use authorization for a convalescent blood plasma as experimental treatment for COVID-19. The treatment, which relies on injecting COVID-19 survivors’ antibodies into other patients to increase their body’s defenses against the virus, has been used …
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Coronavirus will be “forever” and people will probably need regular vaccinations against it, said a former chief scientific adviser to the UK government. Prof Mark Walport, a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), compared the virus to influenza, saying that repeated inoculations on a global scale would …
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FLORIDA – Following lengthy federal and state proceedings, the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District this week approved a plan to release more than 750 million genetically modified mosquitoes in the Keys region to combat an invasive, disease-carrying species of the insect. The genetically modified mosquitoes, named OX5034 by Oxitec, the …
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South Korea’s daily new virus cases rose to 397 peaks on Sunday – the highest since March 7 when infections were reported in all major cities and provinces across the country. More than 23.1 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with COVID-19, and more than 14.83 million have been recovered. …
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DENVER – Police arrested Elijah McClain on a street in downtown Denver last year after she suspected the young Black man. He was thrown into a chokehold, threatened with a dog and stun gun, and then subjected to another tool for enforcement before he died: a drug called ketamine. Paramedics …
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