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Almost everything Tucker Carlson said about Anthony Fauci this week was misleading or false
Tucker Carlson, a political commentator on Fox News, has long assailed Anthony Fauci for his role in the U.S. government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic during both former President Donald Trump’s and President Joe Biden’s administrations. But on 22 August, when Fauci announced he would be retiring from his jobs as director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and chief medical adviser to the president at the end of year, the Tucker Carlson Tonight host laid into him like never before. Carlson asserted Fauci had committed “very serious crimes” and said he “app...
Source: ScienceNOW - August 25, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news

News at a glance: Debate over classifying research, giant water lilies, and new hummingbird feather colors
ECOLOGY Scientists find new hummingbird colors The plumage of hummingbirds has more color diversity than the feathers of all other birds combined, a recent study finds. Researchers from Yale University collected feathers from specimens of 114 hummingbird species and, using a spectrometer, documented the wavelengths of light they reflected. These wavelengths were then compared with those found in a previous study of 111 other bird species, including penguins and parrots. The researchers were surprised to find new colors in the hummers, which widened the known avian color gamut by 56% and included rarely seen ...
Source: ScienceNOW - July 6, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news

Biden Plans to Share 20 Million More COVID-19 Vaccine Doses With Rest of World
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Monday that the U.S. will share an additional 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines with the world in the coming six weeks as domestic demand for shots drops and global disparities in distribution have grown more evident. The doses will come from existing production of Pfizer, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccine stocks, marking the first time that U.S.-controlled doses of vaccines authorized for use in the country will be shared overseas. It will boost the global vaccine sharing commitment from the U.S. to 80 million. “We know America will never be fully safe until the...
Source: TIME: Health - May 17, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Associated Press Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news

Why Countries Around the World Are Suspending Use of AstraZeneca ’s COVID-19 Vaccine
It’s the last thing public health officials want to see in the midst of a pandemic: more than two months after pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca and Oxford University scientists released their COVID-19 vaccine, countries in Europe and elsewhere are pausing its use amid disconcerting reports that a small number of recipients have experienced blood clots, some of them fatal. The European Medicines Agency, which oversees drugs and vaccines in Europe, is expected to issue a guidance on March 18 about whether the side effects were related to the vaccine after reviewing the reports; in the meantime, it says the benefits of ...
Source: TIME: Health - March 16, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news

mRNA Technology Gave Us the First COVID-19 Vaccines. It Could Also Upend the Drug Industry
“No!” The doctor snapped. “Look at me!” I had been staring her in the eyes, as she had ordered, but when a doctor on my other side began jabbing me with a needle, I started to turn my head. “Don’t look at it,” the first doctor said. I obeyed. This was in early August in New Orleans, where I had signed up to be a participant in the clinical trial for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. It was a blind study, which meant I was not supposed to know whether I had gotten the placebo or the real vaccine. I asked the doctor if I would really been able to tell by looking at the syringe. &...
Source: TIME: Health - January 11, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Walter Isaacson Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 feature Magazine Source Type: news

U.K. Authorizes Emergency Use of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine
Pfizer and BioNTech say they’ve won permission Wednesday for emergency use of their COVID-19 vaccine in Britain, the world’s first coronavirus shot that’s backed by rigorous science — and a major step toward eventually ending the pandemic. The move makes Britain one of the first countries to begin vaccinating its population as it tries to curb Europe’s deadliest COVID-19 outbreak. Other countries aren’t far behind: The U.S. and the European Union also are vetting the Pfizer shot along with a similar vaccine made by competitor Moderna Inc. Pfizer said it would immediately begin shipping l...
Source: TIME: Health - December 2, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lauran Neergaard / AP Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 overnight wire Source Type: news

The U.S. COVID-19 Outbreak Is Worse Than It ’s Ever Been. Why Aren’t We Acting Like It?
Nothing about the current COVID-19 explosion should come as a surprise. As the virus spread throughout summer and fall, experts repeatedly warned winter would be worse. They cautioned that a cold-weather return to indoor socializing, particularly around the holidays, could turn a steady burn into a wildfire. Throw in a lame-duck President, wildly differing approaches by the states and a pervasive sense of quarantine fatigue, and the wildfire could easily become an inferno. So it has. The U.S. is now locked in a deadly cycle of setting, then shattering, records for new cases and hospitalizations. On Nov. 13, a staggering 17...
Source: TIME: Health - November 19, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized Cover Story COVID-19 feature Magazine Source Type: news

Frozen Food Packages in China Keep Testing Positive For Coronavirus. Here ’s Why Health Experts Aren’t Worried
They’ve reportedly found it on packages of Ecuadorian shrimp, squid from Russia and Norwegian seafood. Since June, Chinese health authorities have been detecting genetic traces of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, on refrigerated and frozen foods from around the world. Then, on Oct. 17, the Chinese Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced it had isolated active SARS-CoV-2 on packs of imported fish. The agency says this world-first discovery, made while tracing a recent outbreak in Qingdao to two dock workers, shows contaminated food packaging can cause infections. While it remains unclear if the dock wo...
Source: TIME: Health - November 3, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Amy Gunia Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Explainer overnight Source Type: news

The Great Vaccine Race: Inside the Unprecedented Scramble to Immunize the World Against COVID-19
The cleverest of enemies thrive on surprise attacks. Viruses—and coronaviruses in particular—know this well. Remaining hidden in animal hosts for decades, they mutate steadily, sometimes serendipitously morphing into more effective and efficient infectious agents. When a strain with just the right combination of genetic codes that spell trouble for people makes the leap from animal to human, the ambush begins. Such was the case with SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus behind COVID-19, and the attack was mostly silent and insidious at first. Many people infected with SARS-CoV-2 remained oblivious as they served as the v...
Source: TIME: Health - September 10, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Magazine Source Type: news

Decades-Old Soviet Studies Hint at Coronavirus Strategy
A married pair of virologists in Moscow tested a vaccine on their own children in the 1950s. Now, a side effect they found is sparking new hope for a defense against the coronavirus.
Source: NYT Health - June 24, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Andrew E. Kramer Tags: Vaccination and Immunization Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Poliomyelitis Immune System Food and Drug Administration Institute of Human Virology Russian Academy of Sciences Science (Journal) Gallo, Robert C Moscow (Russia) Source Type: news

Can Artificial Intelligence effectively and ethically detect COVID-19?
Is Artificial Intelligence (AI) a viable solution to the COVID-19 testing crisis? This has been a major question buzzing in the minds of healthcare leaders as they scramble to come up with solutions to the short-supply of the conventional tests. Some researchers believe that it ’s possible to develop a specialized method to detect specific markers of the virus via AI. However, COVID-19-detecting algorithms are based on data from only dozens or hundreds of patients, whereas a fully effective and functional algorithm requires thousands of patient scans. Recently written algorithms were developed using scans of infected C...
Source: radRounds - April 19, 2020 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs

A Drug Developed to Fight Ebola Could Hold Hope for Coronavirus Treatment
Last year, when I visited the town of Beni, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), people did not shake hands. Bottles of disinfectant and buckets of chlorinated water were at the entrance of every business. Misinformation spread across social networks and on news-sites, and treatment centers in the northeastern province of North Kivu were being attacked by armed militias. At the time, Beni was one of the centers of a devastating Ebola outbreak, the second most deadly in world history. According to the World Health Organization, almost 3,500 people were sickened by the virus, and more than 2,000 died, a case fatali...
Source: TIME: Health - April 1, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Nicolas Niarchos Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news

Can Face Masks Prevent Coronavirus? Experts Say That Depends
A new coronavirus outbreak, which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan and has spread throughout Asia and globally, has prompted people around the world to buy medical face masks in hopes of preventing infection. Retailers in the U.S. and across the Internet are running out of antiviral face masks as the number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus (2019-nCoV) now exceeds 9,700 globally. More than 200 people have died from the virus in China, where the majority of the 2019-nCoV cases have been detected. The World Health Organization declared a global health emergency on Thursday as the outbreak continues to spread. As o...
Source: TIME: Health - January 31, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mahita Gajanan Tags: Uncategorized 2019-nCoV Infectious Disease onetime Source Type: news