By BY GINA KOLATA from NYT Health https://ift.tt/3ayzTtW
Tuesday, 18 August 2020
Federal Study of Covid Treatments Enters a New Phase
By BY GINA KOLATA from NYT Health https://ift.tt/3ayzTtW
A Novel Way to Combat Covid in Nursing Homes: Strike Teams
By BY HANNAH CRITCHFIELD from NYT Health https://ift.tt/3g4YPKH
Monday, 17 August 2020
Autopsies Show Microplastics in Major Human Organs
Researchers found evidence of plastic contamination in tissue samples taken from the lungs, liver, spleen and kidneys of donated human cadavers.
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Researchers: COVID Clinical Trials Lack Diversity
In the Adaptive COVID-19 Treatment Trial involving more than 1,000 patients testing the efficacy of the antiviral remdesivir, only 20% of participants are Black and 23% are Hispanic or Native American.
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Lasting Immunity to COVID Found in Early Studies
A slew of studies show that disease-fighting antibodies, as well as B-cells and T-cells that can recognize the virus, appear to persist months after infections have run their course, The New York Times reported.
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