Featured Headlines Health Experts Urge A Shutdown Do-Over As COVID-19 Cases Surge – NPR 4 min audio at the link – In an open letter to “decision makers,” a group of doctors, scientists, teachers and nurses says leaders need to “shut it…
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Tulane Outbreak Daily – July 29, 2020
Featured Headlines How covid-19 conspiracy videos keep getting millions of views – MIT Technology Review The ongoing battle between social-media companies and covid-19 misinformation pushers—including US president Donald Trump—stepped up again this week thanks to a new viral video. No…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – July 28, 2020
Featured Headlines Bloomberg Podcast: Why a Vaccine Won’t Create Instant Immunity An effective vaccine is seen as the world’s greatest hope for achieving some kind of return to normal, and the timeline for developing one has been sped up dramatically.…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – July 27, 2020
Non-COVID Headlines CDC investigating salmonella outbreak in 23 states – The Hill As of July 23, a total of 212 people have been infected with the salmonella strain, and 38 of the infections stemmed from new states: Arizona, Florida, Idaho,…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – July 24, 2020
Featured Headlines Virus Can Travel 26 Feet at Cold Meat Plants With Stale Air – Bloomberg Cold and stale air conditions allowed coronavirus particles to travel more than 8 meters (26 feet) at a German slaughterhouse, a study showed, giving…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – July 22, 2020
Featured Headlines How Deadly Is COVID-19? – MedPageToday Most studies put the rate between 0.5% and 1%, which translates to about 10 people dying out of every 1,000 who are infected, the Journal reports. That’s in line with an estimate of “around 1%…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – July 21, 2020
Non COVID Headlines Germany reports ‘swine flu’ case in child – Outbreak News Today The WHO was told of one human case of infection with a swine influenza A(H1N1)v virus from Germany on 3 July. Details include the infection was…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – July 20, 2020
Featured Headlines Studies provide glimpse at efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines from Oxford-AstraZeneca and CanSino – Stat Covid-19 vaccine being developed by Oxford University and the drug giant AstraZeneca generated an immune response in a study of roughly 1,000 patients, according…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – July 16, 2020
Featured Headlines Over 224,000 COVID-19 deaths forecast in U.S. by November 1, says University of Washington’s IHME – Retuers A newly revised University of Washington model projects the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 will climb to just above 224,000 by…
Tulane Outbreak Daily – July 15, 2020
Featured Headlines First Coronavirus Vaccine Tested in Humans Shows Early Promise – New York Times The vaccine, developed by government scientists and Moderna, a biotech company, appeared safe and provoked an immune response in 45 people in a study. [Another…