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Opinions If we want any vaccine to actually work, we have to prepare for it now

Fri, 2020-07-17 17:01 — mike kraft

Opinion | If we want any vaccine to actually work, we have to prepare for it now A vaccination campaign — the kind that could really make everything go back to normal — is going to take a vast, coordinated public effort. Megan McArdle Washington Post

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Hydroxychloroquine studies show drug is not effective for early treatment of mild covid-19

Fri, 2020-07-17 09:20 — mike kraft

Hydroxychloroquine studies show drug is not effective for early treatment of mild covid-19 The first randomized clinical trial of hydroxychlorquine for early treatment of patients with mild covid-19 showed the drug was not effective in treating the disease in patients who were not hospitalized.

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Fauci bullish on prospects for U.S. vaccine, not worried about China winning race

Wed, 2020-07-15 17:25 — mike kraft

Fauci bullish on prospects for U.S. vaccine, not worried about China winning race The leading U.S. expert on infectious diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, predicted on Wednesday the country will meet its goal of a coronavirus vaccine by year's end and was unmoved by the prospect that China would get there first. Julie Steenhuysen U.S.

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More than 150 countries sign up for global vaccine plan

Wed, 2020-07-15 16:25 — mike kraft

More than 150 countries sign up for global vaccine plan LONDON (AP) — More than 70 rich countries have signed up to a global coronavirus vaccine initiative intended to ensure that any effective shots are fairly distributed around the world - but which... AP NEWS

Associated Press July 15, 2020

By Masria Cheng

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Moderna coronavirus vaccine shows 'promising' safety and immune response results in published Phase 1 study, but more research is needed

Tue, 2020-07-14 18:53 — mike kraft

Moderna coronavirus vaccine shows 'promising' results in published Phase 1 study A Covid-19 vaccine developed by the biotechnology company Moderna in partnership with the National Institutes of Health has been found to induce immune responses in all of the volunteers who received it in a Phase 1 study. Jacqueline Howard and John Bonifield, CNN CNN

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Long delays in getting test results hobble coronavirus response

Mon, 2020-07-13 10:13 — mike kraft

Long delays in getting test results hobble coronavirus response It can take a week or more to learn the outcome — so long that it’s of little use in the effort to control the disease. Rachel Weiner, William Wan, Abigail Hauslohner Washington Post

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No one is safe until everyone is safe': Vaccine nationalism threatens global coronavirus effort

Sun, 2020-07-12 22:04 — mike kraft

USA Today July 12, 2020

'No one is safe until everyone is safe': Vaccine nationalism threatens global coronavirus effort Instead of collaboration, coordination and sharing, vaccine nationalism pits nation against nation to get and keep enough doses for their citizens. Elizabeth Weise USA TODAY

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This is how your world could end

Mon, 2017-09-11 21:29 — Maeryn Obley

The 2014 El Portal fire burning near Yosemite National Park, California. Scientists have warned that rising global temperatures will lead to more wildfires in Yosemite and elsewhere. Photograph: Stuart Palley/EPA theguardian.com - Peter Brannen - September 9th 2017

Image: The 2014 El Portal fire burning near Yosemite National Park, California. Scientists have warned that rising global temperatures will lead to more wildfires in Yosemite and elsewhere. Photograph: Stuart Palley/EPA

theguardian.com - Peter Brannen - September 9th 2017

Many of us share some dim apprehension that the world is flying out of control, that the centre cannot hold. Raging wildfires, once-in-1,000-years storms and lethal heatwaves have become fixtures of the evening news – and all this after the planet has warmed by less than 1C above preindustrial temperatures. But here’s where it gets really scary.

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What Happens If a Nuclear Bomb Goes Off in Manhattan?

Wed, 2017-03-15 13:12 — Maeryn Obley

Manhatten skyline. Lucas Jackson / Reuters

Image: Manhatten skyline. Lucas Jackson / Reuters

theatlantic.com - March 15th 2017 - Kaveh Waddell

On a quiet afternoon, two medium-sized nuclear blasts level portions of Manhattan.

If this were a movie, hordes of panicked New Yorkers would pour out into the streets, running around and calling out for their loved ones. But reality doesn’t usually line up with Hollywood’s vision of a disaster scene, says William Kennedy, a professor in the Center for Social Complexity at George Mason University.

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Forbidding Forecast For Lyme Disease In The Northeast

Mon, 2017-03-06 12:54 — Maeryn Obley

White-footed mice are efficient transmitters of Lyme disease in the Northeast. They infect up to 95 percent of the ticks that feed on them. But it's people who create the conditions for Lyme outbreaks by building homes in the animals' habitat. Stephen Reiss/for NPR

Image: White-footed mice are efficient transmitters of Lyme disease in the Northeast. They infect up to 95 percent of the ticks that feed on them. But it's people who create the conditions for Lyme outbreaks by building homes in the animals' habitat. Stephen Reiss/for NPR

npr.org - March 6th 2017 - Michaeleen Doucleff, Jane Greenhalgh

Last summer Felicia Keesing returned from a long trip and found that her home in upstate New York had been subjected to an invasion.

"There was evidence of mice everywhere. They had completely taken over," says Keesing, an ecologist at Bard College.

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