A researcher at the German Center for Immunity Therapy holds a bag containing blood plasma from a recovered COVID-19 patient at the University Hospital Erlangen on April 27, 2020 in Erlangen, Germany. This plasma could be used to treat people with COVID-19. Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images A researcher at…
It started for Melanie Montano with a tightness in her chest, almost like someone was sitting on top of her. It was March 15, and she was sweating but freezing cold. And she had a strange “pins-and-needles” sensation on the back of her legs. “It was as if I woke up in a totally different…
The Covid-19 pandemic has thrown up a lot of problems that governments never expected to have to deal with, leading them to give advice they never thought they'd have to give. Imagine getting elected based on how much freedom you were going to give everybody, then a few months later telling them "remain indoors, if…
Earlier this week, a comment from Maria Van Kerkhove, technical lead of the World Health Organization’s Covid-19 response, offered yet another cautionary tale of what happens when scientific ambiguity meets political certitude. It went like this: At a press conference Monday, Van Kerkhove said that cases in which asymptomatic people spread the virus to others…
Out of the ten countries worst-hit by the coronavirus, the US recorded the biggest jump in new cases within a 72-hour period this week.The data was laid out in a leaked Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) document, obtained by Yahoo News.Between June 6 and June 9, new US cases rose 36.5% from the average…