The COVID Commentaries: A Chronicle of a Plague —Volume II
In early 2020, rumors of a new pneumonia-like illness coming from Wuhan, China were just beginning to emerge. COVID-19 has gone on to infect at least thirty five million people worldwide and has killed more than one million. The COVID Commentaries is …
The COVID Commentaries: A Chronicle of a Plague —Volume I
In early 2020, rumors of a new pneumonia-like illness coming from Wuhan, China were just beginning to emerge. COVID-19 has gone on to infect at least thirty five million people worldwide and has killed more than one million. After a lifetime spent …
A Tale Of Four Cities: Wuhan, Seattle, New York, Chicago
A new study from Northwestern University in Chicago, available as an unreviewed pre-print, identifies three distinct strains of SARS-CoV-2 currently circulating in Chicago. The three strains, called clades, can be distinguished from one another by the sequence of viral RNA. The variant the …
More Publication By Press Release, This Time From Sinovac On A Covid Vaccine
Spreading almost as fast as Covid-19 itself are “publications by press release”. The latest comes from Sinovac, the same company that previously withheld comment on animal studies of its candidate Covid vaccine until the supporting data was available for review. Not so this …
Dexamethasone Reduces Mortality In Seriously Ill Covid-19 Patients—And So Do Other Treatments
Each day doctors are battling to save lives with the limited resources they have. They hope, as do we, that medical science will soon lend them a strong helping hand. A group of doctors announced today they had completed a controlled study …
The Role Of Blood Type In Covid-19 Infection And Respiratory Failure
Does having a certain blood type put you at higher risk of developing a severe case of Covid-19? A recent report doesn’t have all the answers, but it does offer some clues. The report, which analyzes the data of almost 2,000 patients hospitalized for …
Two Weeks And Ten Million Covid Tests In Wuhan
Over the last two weeks of May, all residents over the age of 5 in Wuhan, China were tested for the presence of active SARS-CoV-2 virus replication. The tests identified 300 people with active infection. None of those tested show any signs …
Bloomberg Features William A. Haseltine on the Covid-19 Vaccine Race
The U.S. threw its weight behind one of the fastest-moving experimental solutions to the coronavirus pandemic, pledging as much as $1.2 billion to AstraZeneca Plc to help make the University of Oxford’s Covid vaccine. Beset by criticism of his response to the outbreak, President Donald Trump is …
The Guardian Features William A. Haseltine on Covid-19 Vaccines
A top US scientist has said that people should not count on a Covid-19 vaccine being developed any time soon, as global infections passed 5 million after surges in Latin America, including Brazil, which has recorded nearly 20,000 new cases. William Haseltine, the groundbreaking cancer, …
Reuters Newsmaker Features William A. Haseltine on COVID-19: Vaccines and Public Health
On Wednesday, May 20, Reuters hosted a virtual Newsmaker event featuring scientist, businessman and philanthropist Dr. William A. Haseltine. As nations around the world begin to wind down restrictions imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus outbreak, Reuters Global Managing Editor …