Drug makers associated with the United States government are on track to begin actively manufacturing a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the summer, a senior administration official said Monday. “If you say exactly when the vaccine materials will literally be in production and manufacturing, it will likely be four …
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The sad reality of end-stage lung disease is that there are simply far more patients than donor lungs available. This is not only due to the low number of donors, which would be a sufficient problem, but many donor lungs are significantly damaged, rendering them unusable. However, by using a …
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A new study involving more than 92,000 COVID-19 patients in Brazil shows that the odds of serious illness, ventilatory support requirement, and death are reduced with a trivalent recent flu shot. This seems to indicate that these vaccines should be used as widely as possible to reduce the risk of …
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Let’s go back the hands of time. Before the extinction knocked dinosaurs off their pillar, before the extinction “Great Death” wiped out 95 percent of all organisms, we had the Paleozoic Era. During this age in Earth’s history, between 541 million and 252 million years ago, arthropods (animals with exoskeletons …
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As the coronavirus pandemic continues worldwide, there has been a fight to release a safe and effective vaccine. More than 140 candidate vaccines have been developed globally, and 18 of them are currently in human trials. Vaccine trials generally undergo three rounds of testing: phase 1, phase 2, and phase …
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