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COVID-19 vaccine rollout unlikely before fall 2021, experts say
“Experts in our survey offered forecasts on vaccine development that were generally less optimistic than the timeline of early 2021 offered by US public officials,” Jonathan Kimmelman, a professor at McGill University, said in a statement.
“In general they seem to believe that a publicly available vaccine next summer is the best-case scenario with the possibility that it may take until 2022,” said Kimmelman, the senior author on the paper published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
Scientists identify unique patterns in COVID-19 transmission in India
According to the scientists, including Ramanan Laxminarayan from the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics, and Policy in New Delhi, the findings offer a peek into the pandemic’s trajectory in a low- and middle-income country, where most COVID-19 cases have occurred
New global lab network will compare COVID-19 vaccines head-to-head
Speaking to Reuters ahead of announcing the labs involved, Melanie Saville, director of vaccine R&D at the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), said the idea was to “compare apples with apples” as drugmakers race to develop an effective shot to help control the COVID-19 pandemic.
The faces of India’s coronavirus pandemic as deaths hit 100,000
In what is still a conservative and developing country, some of the relatives said they faced ostracism after their loved ones caught the virus. Others said they have suffered from depression and money troubles. All said more could have been done to save the people who died
Covid-sniffing robots offer testing alternative
“Our goal is to have a device that merges synthetic biology with silicon and maps all of the smells of human life on a global scale,” said Oshiorenoya Agabi, the San Rafael, California-based company’s chief executive officer and co-founder. “We should have a device in every home in America to screen for disease.”
Second sero survey indicates reduction in infections in Mumbai slums
Mumbai is one of the worst-affected COVID-19 hotspots in the country with over two lakh cases and nearly 9,000 deaths so far.
Push to bring coronavirus vaccines to the poor faces trouble
In one of the biggest obstacles, rich countries have locked up most of the world’s potential vaccine supply through 2021, and the U.S. and others have refused to join the project, called Covax.
The supply of vaccines is not going to be there in the near term, and the money also isn’t there, warned Rohit Malpani, a public health consultant who previously worked for Doctors Without Borders.
Risk aversion sets in after Trump tests positive for coronavirus
Taking to Twitter, he wrote, “Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for Covid-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this together.
India’s coronavirus infections rise to 6.39 million
Deaths from coronavirus infections rose by 1,095 in the last 24 hours to 99,773, the ministry said.The total recoveries have surged to 53,52,078. There are 9,42,217 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country which comprises 14.74 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated.The COVID-19 case fatality rate was recorded at 1.56 per cent
COVID-19 controls turn Asia into global surveillance hotspot, analysts say
“Asia as a region risks sleep-walking into serious privacy breaches if there isn’t transparency when it comes to data use with respect to COVID-19 surveillance measures,” said Sofia Nazalya, a human rights analyst at Verisk Maplecroft.