Brookings Institution: The #US could have avoided nearly 400,000 deaths with a more effective health strategy. As of March 25, US #COVID19 cases has reached 30 million.
NEW Research—First human trial of #COVID19 vaccine finds it is safe and induces rapid immune response: finding from a dose-escalation, single-centre, open-label, non-randomised, phase 1 trial https://t.co/Cy9odHv5eF
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Vaccine candidate was well tolerated at all doses with no serious adverse events reported within 28 days. Most adverse events were mild or moderate; 83% of those receiving low & middle doses & 75% in the high dose group reporting at least 1 adverse reaction within 7 days (2/3)
Study of 108 adults finds vaccine produced neutralising antibodies and T-cell response against SARS-CoV-2, but further research is needed to confirm whether the vaccine protects against #SARSCoV2 infection (3/3)
Statement on False Allegations in @derspiegel: Reports of a 21 Jan phone call between @DrTedros & 🇨🇳 President Xi are unfounded & untrue. They didn’t speak on 21 Jan & have never spoken by 📞
Such inaccurate reports distract & detract from WHO's & the 🌍’s efforts to end #COVID19
I was super excited to join @VirusesImmunity and @RDasLab for this video by @novapbs, talking about #SARSCoV2#HCoV19#COVID19#coronavirus mRNA vaccines! I particularly loved Dr. Das's description of RNA as the Snapchat messages of molecular biology.
https://t.co/5vvUehhiVO
China & ASEAN held another video conference on #COVID19. China is willing to continue to share its experience in prevention & control, & provide assistance to ASEAN. ASEAN said it highly valued China's success in preventing & controlling #COVID19, & thanked China for assistance.
Please watch this #shortvideo! It's the exciting moment of the Chinese #medicalteam and #medicalsupplies arriving at Watty Int'l Airport of Vientiane yesterday. Thank you Ambassador Ekkaphab Phanthavong, PR of the #LaoPDR to #ASEAN, for sharing the video with me! #COVID19#China
SARS-CoV-2: A Storm is Raging: Our Preview/Perspective for Chen on JCI: by day 8 after infection, it's cytokine storm and CD4/CD8 decrease that causes respiratory failure, not viral load. Agree w/ Stanley Perlman & @VirusesImmunity
https://t.co/y3sFb12hKI https://t.co/gkhIqhh6rv
#COVID19 epidemic once again proves that mankind is a community with a shared future. In the face of #COVID19, how terrible the virus is, and how fragile the life is. We should unite to deal with the epidemic and carry out international cooperation to save more lives.
The CDC-provided COVID-19 primers have potential issues with hairpins and dimerization, writes @tomeraltman.
In his new blog post, he designs better candidate primers to help develop better diagnostic kits.
Please RT.
#COVID19#COVID_19#Coronavirus
https://t.co/SjNG16qDVG
CDC has discontinued reporting the number of “persons under investigation” and negative test results for #COVID19. With more testing done by states, these numbers would not be representative of national testing.
@DrTedros "As of 6am GVA time this morning, #China has reported a total of 77,362 cases of #COVID19 to WHO, including 2618 deaths.
In the past 24 hours, 🇨🇳 has reported 416 new confirmed cases & 150 deaths.
We’re encouraged by the continued decline in cases in 🇨🇳"-@DrTedros#coronavirus
@DrTedros "As of 6am GVA time this morning, #China has reported 72,528 #COVID19 cases to WHO, incl. 1870 deaths.
In the past 24h, 🇨🇳 has reported 1,891 new cases, including both clinically- & lab-confirmed cases.
Outside 🇨🇳, there are now 804 cases in 25 countries, with 3 deaths"-@DrTedros