SAN ANTONIO – A COVID-19 vaccine trial is getting ready to begin in San Antonio, and starting Thursday, researchers will start screening possible participants.The trial is taking place at Clinical Trials of Texas, which is located in the Medical Center area.You must be 18 or older and not have had COVID-19 before to participate. Also,…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers from the Penn Institute of Immunology discovered three distinct immune responses to the SARS-CoV2 infection that could help predict the trajectory of disease in severe COVID-19 patients and may ultimately inform how to best treat them. The findings were published in Science. "For patients who are hospitalized with COVID-19, there…
Updated 7/10, 5:45 pm to reflect funding from the City of Dallas and Tarrant County.An ambitious new study will track the prevalence of COVID-19 in Dallas and Tarrant counties and answer pressing questions about how the disease is spreading through North Texas.The study, being launched Monday by experts at UT Southwestern Medical Center and Texas…
A massive coronavirus Oxford study provides the same tips as previous work on the matter when it comes to the risk factors that can lead to COVID-19 complications and death. The study looked at records belonging to 17 million Britons, including more than ten thousand COVID-19 fatalities, and identified the same risk factors are previous…
The historic effort to get a vaccine for COVID-19 is coming to Oklahoma City.The Lynn Health Science Institute in Oklahoma City is looking for hundreds of people in the area to participate in a study of a possible vaccine. The company Moderna chose the institute to be the only place in Oklahoma to do this.“I…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…