In any crisis, leaders have two equally important responsibilities: solve the immediate problem and keep it from happening again. The Covid-19 pandemic is a case in point. We need to save lives now while also improving the way we respond to outbreaks in general. The first point is more pressing, but the second has crucial
WHO Director-General’s opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 – 28 February 2020 In the past 24 hours, China reported 329 cases – the lowest in more than a month. As of 6am Geneva time this morning, China has reported a total of 78,959 cases of COVID-19 to WHO, including 2791 deaths. Outside China,
A patient in the US with no history of travel to outbreak hot spots or exposure to someone with coronavirus has been diagnosed with the disease, likely marking the first case of “community spread” inside the country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced. Source MIT Technology Review The case: The patient was admitted to
New outbreaks in Asia, Europe and the Middle East are renewing fears of a coming global pandemic. Americans should brace for the likelihood that the coronavirus will spread to communities in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Tuesday. “It’s not so much of a question of if this will happen
APN01, developed based on the work of UBC’s Josef Penninger, already shown to block viral spread in SARS A University of British Columbia researcher is part of an international team working with a biotechnology company on a pilot clinical trial of a potential new treatment for patients with severe coronavirus infections in Guangzhou, China. Dr.
n Monday, when China reported 409 new cases of COVID-19 infection and 150 more deaths, Massachusetts-based biotechnology company Moderna, Inc. delivered the first batch of its rapidly developed coronavirus vaccine to the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). As of early Tuesday afternoon, Hong Kong time, there are 80,147 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 2,699 deaths. In
Researchers look to messenger RNA encased in nanoparticles, DNA plasmids, molecular clamps and other approaches as they rush to design a vaccine against the new coronavirus. The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported on February 20 that the novel coronavirus illness known as COVID-19 has now infected nearly 75,000 people and that the number of fatalities in
A new report from a WHO infectious disease modeling team based at Imperial College London is estimating about two-thirds of Covid-19 cases worldwide have gone undetected. The analysis suggests the global spread of the novel coronavirus is significantly greater than the current volume of confirmed cases. Source: Imperial College London “We are starting to see more
A 20-year-old Chinese woman from Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, traveled 400 miles(675 km) north to Anyang where she infected five relatives, without ever showing signs of infection, Chinese scientists reported on Friday, offering new evidence that the virus can be spread asymptomatically. The case study, published in the Journal of the American
Source Reuters A 70-year-old man in China’s Hubei Province was infected with coronavirus but did not show symptoms until 27 days later, the local government said on Saturday, meaning the virus’ incubation period could be much longer than the presumed 14 days. A longer incubation period could complicate efforts to contain spread of the epidemic
