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Trump urges people who have recovered from covid-19 to donate blood plasma

Thu, 2020-07-30 20:36 — mike kraft

Trump urges people who have recovered from covid-19 to donate blood plasma Blood plasma from people who have successfully recovered from coronavirus infection has been widely used in the United States, even though researchers are still gathering evidence to definitively show it works. Carolyn Y. Johnson Washington Post

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Costa Rica-made plasma shown to inhibit coronavirus, ready for clinical trials

Thu, 2020-07-30 11:46 — mike kraft

Costa Rica-made plasma shown to inhibit coronavirus, ready for clinical trials: UCR Alejandro Zúñiga The Tico Times Costa Rica

Costa Rica is set to begin clinical trials on antibody-rich plasma that has been extracted from horses with the purpose of treating COVID-19 patients.

Two versions of the plasma were shown to inhibit the infectivity of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in tests performed at the National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases in the United States.

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Where states reopened and cases spiked after the U.S. shutdown

Thu, 2020-07-30 09:23 — mike kraft

Map: Which states are reopening and closing again after coronavirus shutdown Hundreds of millions of people started moving around again. Now, a surge is here, with new restrictions. Washington Post Staff, Ann Gerhart, Thomas Johnson, Monica Ulmanu, Chris Alcantara, Matthew Callahan, Leslie Shapiro, Jacqueline Dupree Washington Post

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Worldwide map of the spread of the novel coronavirus

Thu, 2020-07-30 09:09 — mike kraft

Tracking the spread of the novel coronavirus Reuters maps all places where COVID-19 cases have been confirmed. Gurman Bhatia Reuters

At least 667,650 people globally have died from COVID-19 and 17,118,787 have been infected by the novel coronavirus that causes it, following an outbreak that started in Wuhan, China, in early December. The World Health Organization referred to it as a pandemic on March 11, 2020.

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County by county chart of COVID-19 in the U.S.

Thu, 2020-07-30 08:54 — mike kraft

The novel coronavirus in the U.S. How COVID-19 has spread across the U.S. Samuel Hart Reuters

Tracking the novel coronavirus in the U.S.

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UPDATE: California and Florida hit new daily record high coronavirus deaths

Thu, 2020-07-30 08:45 — mike kraft

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The Coronavirus Could Dodge Some Treatments, Study Suggests

Wed, 2020-07-29 18:45 — mike kraft

In a laboratory in New York City, researchers coaxed a key piece of the coronavirus — its infamous outer “spike” — to mutate so that it became invisible to disease-fighting antibodies, according to a new study that has not yet been published in a scientific journal.

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U.S. virus pandemic splintering into many pieces

Wed, 2020-07-29 15:54 — mike kraft

Once again, the coronavirus is ascendant. As infections mount across the country, it is dawning on Americans that the epidemic is now unstoppable, and that no corner of the nation will be left untouched.

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