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25 August 2020
• In an interview, Dr Tom Friedan, former US CDC director, describes the FDA’s EUA for convalescent plasma “…politically driven…”...
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24 August 2020
• In Hong Kong, researchers report the first confirmed case of SARS-Co-V-2 reinfection after sequencing two significantly different viruses in...
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23 August 2020
• India surpasses 3 million cases of coronavirus. • Despite the lack of evidence from randomized controlled trials, and under...
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22 August 2020
• The global death toll from COVID-19 surpasses 800,000. Source • High death rates reported in Central and South America...
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21 August 2020
• Coronavirus is increasing across Europe; the proportion of cases among people age 15 to 24 has tripled. Source •...
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20 August 2020
• The US FDA grants emergency use authorization for a coronavirus antigen test to be used in people with COVID-19...
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19 August 2020
• According to a US intelligence report, local officials in Wuhan, China initially concealed the potential severity of the coronavirus...
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18 August 2020
The US ACTT trial announces the launch of a 1,000-person, placebo-controlled trial of remdesivir with or without beta interferon (which...
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17 August 2020
• Nature Medicine publishes a paper on an “immune signature” linked with poor prognosis for COVID-19, suggesting the strong role...
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16 August 2020
Pre-print studies report robust B-cell and T-cell responses to coronavirus, even in people with mild symptoms; although this suggests immunity,...
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15 August 2020
The open-source SalivaDirect test for COVID-19, which was developed at the Yale School of Public Health, with funding from the...
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14 August 2020
• The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) updated its guidance to suggest that people who have recovered from COVID-19...