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Trump Adds Similar Minded Advisor to Task Force as Death Toll Rivals Fatality Rate of 1918 Flu and Clinical Trials are Taking Longer Than Expected
Early this week, President Trump appointed a new advisor, Dr. Scott Atlas, to the White House’s Coronavirus Task Force. Dr. Atlas is a radiologist, senior fellow at conservative Hoover Institution of Stanford University, and a commentator on Fox News. Before these...
New Type of COVID-19 Test Being Used in UK and Patients Trying New Breathing Technique While Researchers Hope Monoclonal Antibodies Will Help
Scientists at the Department of Health in the United Kingdom announced that they’re releasing new tests for COVID-19 that can provide results in under 90 minutes. Two separate tests are going to be used to identify the coronavirus and several other common viruses. The...
Birx Warns Virus is in a ‘New Phase’ and Fauci Backs Her While New Data Shows 42% of US Cases Occurred in July
Dr. Deborah Birx, the Coordinator of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, made a statement yesterday that the United States is entering a “new phase” of the pandemic. She said that it’s much more extensive than the outbreaks that occurred earlier this year in New...
Contact Tracing Isn’t Working as Scientists Say Children Carry High Levels of the Virus and We Don’t Know Yet the Full Impact on the Brain
One thing that we’ve heard about for a while is the importance of contact tracing. It’s usually a key element in public health as a means of reducing the spread of a pathogen. It’s been used for diseases like tuberculosis, yellow fever, and Ebola. Other countries...
Issues with MLB and COVID Leave Many Wondering How to Reopen. Also, A Look at The New Relief Package and How Young People are Infecting Family Members as Top Official Says Government Didn’t Recognize Threat from Europe Soon Enough
The big question on everyone’s mind is how to reopen? Major League Baseball (MLB) tried starting their season this week, but the number of players and support staff testing positive for COVID-19 exploded. This has led many to question that if pro sports teams and...
Promising Vaccine Enter New Phase of Trials, But How Long Will Protection Last as Officials Say It’s Taking Too Long to Get Testing Results and Are Looking for a Better Option
This morning, two large-scale clinical trials for vaccines against COVID-19 began. The first is from Moderna in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health. It has 30,000 participants throughout our country. Pfizer is conducting the other with 30,000 members...
Children and Coronavirus – So Much We Still Don’t Know
As we’re getting ever closer to the start of school, there is still so much that we don’t know about how the coronavirus impacts children. There has been much debate about the best way to handle the situation, but some new information from a study in South Korea might...
Trump Shifts on Masks and Indicates Virus Will Get Worse While Study Shows Americans are Still Lacking Widespread Immunity, CDC Updates Guidelines and Rate of Hospitalizations Almost to Level Seen in April
Yesterday, in a press conference, President Trump recognized that the coronavirus pandemic is becoming worse and would like to continue to do so. “It will probably, unfortunately, get worse before it gets better,” he said. He also endorsed the use of masks, which is a...
Some US Leaders Still Avoiding Mask Mandates as Trump Administration Tries to Prevent Funding for Testing and Tracing
Cases of COVID-19 are surging and this has prompted many areas to issue mask mandates. However, some leaders across the country are still refusing to make them mandatory in public places. This is worrisome since there is mounting evidence showing that they benefit...
Unpublished White House Report Indicates Stricter Rules are Needed as Mask Mandates Increase But Growing Wait Times for Test Results are Delaying Response and We’re Failing to Stop the Virus
In an unpublished report from the White House Coronavirus Task Force, the officials recommend that at least the 18 hardest-hit states, such as California, Florida, Georgia, Oklahoma and Texas, should be putting into place tougher measures, like mask mandates, and...