People keep asking me when I think a vaccine against coronavirus will be available. It’s the one breakthrough we’re waiting for to get life back to normal. It’s the magic word that puts us in control of the spread of Covid-19, giving us immunity and ensuring the R value would always be under 1. Then… Read More »
As to why, Price said the jury is still out. “Our patients were not healthier. They had the same co-morbidities as everywhere else in the country. But I think it’s because we developed a totally unbiased protocol. We based our judgment calls on who and when to give the drug based on specific threshold criteria,… Read More »
The number of new coronavirus cases and hospitalizations has increased in Texas and several states in the South and West, leading governors to eye more aggressive responses. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Monday that increased rates in hospitalizations and record daily highs of new coronavirus cases show that “COVID-19 is now spreading at an unacceptable… Read More »
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 authors call clade 2 was introduced into Chicago in mid-January 2020 by a… Read More »