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This month, the world should get the first results from a clinical trial testing the drug remdesivir against Covid-19. They will get a lot of attention.
Remdesivir, made by the California biotech Gilead Sciences, is one of the potential Covid-19 therapies that is furthest along in the development process. The results, from studies in China, could signal whether the drug can effectively combat the infection — and under which circumstances. So far, there is no proven treatment for the coronavirus.
But just how much can be gleaned from these announcements? Will they be the final word on remdesivir? And how can the company supply the drug to patients around the world who might need it?
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Eventually we will have some digital certificates to show who has recovered or been tested recently or when we have a vaccine who has received it.
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An Invisible Quantum Dot 'Tattoo' Could Be Used to ID Vaccinated Kids
According to a Scientific American story, the project came about following a direct request from Microsoft founder Bill Gates himself.
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MIT engineers have developed a way to store medical information under the skin, using a quantum dot dye that is delivered, along with a vaccine, by a microneedle patch. The dye, which is invisible to the naked eye, can be read later using a specially adapted smartphone.
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Element, Inc: An AI-powered, software-only solution for biometric recognition that runs offline on mobile devices.
Ona Open Smart Register Platform (OpenSRP): A digital health card technology allowing frontline health workers to electronically register and track health services.
iCivil Africa: A mobile solution that sends the details of every new-born baby’s birth to a government health worker via coded SMS.
Simprints: A biometric innovation that solves challenges to immunisation coverage by linking children to health records through their fingerprints.
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The Need for Good Digital ID is Universal
originally posted by: tetra50
testing, testing, testing. it's all we talk about, from Dr. Facci on. I no longer know what to believe. Once you've tested positive, I think they follow your movements. This is necessarily a constitutional problem challenging our native human rights, to get us to give up everything for safety's sake
tetra
originally posted by: Byrd
originally posted by: MonkeyBalls2
originally posted by: Byrd
originally posted by: Irishhaf
So odd thoughts, shouldn't we be just as worried about our eyes as breathing in the virus? I seem to remember from chem warfare training that biological weapons could get in through eyes, ears, mouth, and any openings on the skin.
Could obviously be wildly off base, just a random thought as I left the commissary and some retired guy was giving the airmen at the door heck for not letting him in without a mask.
It's a respiratory virus. It can't get in via the digestive system, ears, eyes, or pores on the skin.
Your eyes are connected to your nose, iirc.
It would probably take liquid transfer though, not just floating particles wafting in the air.
Uhm... no. Eyes and nose aren't connected
The nasolacrimal drainage system serves as a conduit for tear flow from the external eye to the nasal cavity. This system consists of the puncta, canaliculi, lacrimal sac, and nasolacrimal duct (
originally posted by: Byrd
originally posted by: tetra50
testing, testing, testing. it's all we talk about, from Dr. Facci on. I no longer know what to believe. Once you've tested positive, I think they follow your movements. This is necessarily a constitutional problem challenging our native human rights, to get us to give up everything for safety's sake
tetra
Our modern methods are much better than what our founding fathers used to with a smallpox outbreak during the Revolutionary War (1775-1782) At one time (and in some places) they would grab the victim and make them go to the "pest house" to live or die.
Most of our laws on quarantine date to the founding of the US (and were in place when the Constitution was written : www.pbs.org...
originally posted by: tetra50
originally posted by: Byrd
originally posted by: tetra50
testing, testing, testing. it's all we talk about, from Dr. Facci on. I no longer know what to believe. Once you've tested positive, I think they follow your movements. This is necessarily a constitutional problem challenging our native human rights, to get us to give up everything for safety's sake
tetra
Our modern methods are much better than what our founding fathers used to with a smallpox outbreak during the Revolutionary War (1775-1782) At one time (and in some places) they would grab the victim and make them go to the "pest house" to live or die.
Most of our laws on quarantine date to the founding of the US (and were in place when the Constitution was written : www.pbs.org...
Hey Byrd. So are you giving me a constitutional lesson that this is what should be going on, per our constitution.
Britain could suffer the WORST coronavirus death rate in EUROPE, higher than Italy or Spain, warns top scientist who says future outbreaks are 'inevitable' unless a successful vaccine is developed
The UK's death toll is expected to crash through the 10,000 mark when figures are released this afternoon. The country is now seeing daily rates match the worst recorded by Europe's hardest-hit nations, Italy and Spain, after recording nearly 1,000 new fatalities in each of the last two days. Spain has now recorded 16,972 deaths from COVID-19, including 619 today, while Italy has had just under 19,500, behind only the United States in confirmed deaths worldwide.
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
a reply to: CrazeeWorld777
The death rates are low but at what cost, multiply the long term health costs with the loss of confidence and it looks pretty grim.