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ASK YOURSELF THIS? Do we have a Cure for the following: Common Cold FLU, AIDS, CANCER Why do some people think we will have a CURE for Covid by the FALL 2020? It is important to understand, developing a vaccine cannot be hurried. Here are the steps towards that and the timeline.  I come from a pharma background. Our family is in the medical. pharmaceutical and surgical areas. Clinical trials almost never succeed. We’ve never released a coronavirus vaccine for humans before. Our record for developing an entirely new vaccine is at least four years — more time than the public or the economy can tolerate social-distancing orders.

What doctors and parents should watch for when COVID-19 affects children, including 'COVID toes' Social Sharing LinkedIn Discoloration that resembles frostbite should trigger self-isolation Amina Zafar  ·  CBC News  ·  Posted: Apr 29, 2020 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: 2 hours ago Dermatologists, pediatricians and family physicians are on the lookout for "COVID toes" in children who contract the coronavirus illness. (NBC ) The COVID-19 illness is not hitting children in Canada or other countries as hard as adults, but doctors who care for children are on the lookout for unusual symptoms, including "COVID toes." In a study set to be published online in the  journal Pediatrics , researchers in China found that of 2,135 cases reported in January and February, only about six per cent of the children's cases were severe or critical compared to nearly 19 per cent for adults. The Public Health Agency of Canada's data show a si

  BY   SUDEEP REDDY   AND   RENUKA RAYASAM Presented by Matt Wuerker/POLITICO RUNNING IN PLACE   — On Sunday, President Donald Trump propelled the   #FireFauci movement . On Monday, he threatened to   seize power from the states . On Tuesday, he unveiled a   new advisory counci l with little to show for it. On Wednesday, he threatened to seize   power from Congress . On Thursday, he   kicked power back   to the states. And today, he   encouraged protesters   to agitate for their states to open up — contrary to his own guidelines released a day earlier. There was a new White House message every day this week, but also one unchanging worry throughout the noise: how and when will the U.S. reach the scale of mass testing that could bridge a path to a more functional economy. The coronavirus task force emerged tonight with a   new pledge   : to ensure enough testing will be available to let states take the first steps toward opening up. It's perhaps the most cr

Claim: ‘Face masks don’t work’ Wearing a face mask is certainly not an iron-clad guarantee that you won’t get sick – viruses can also transmit through the eyes and tiny viral particles, known as aerosols, can penetrate masks. However, masks are effective at capturing droplets, which is a main transmission route of coronavirus, and some studies have estimated a roughly fivefold protection versus no barrier alone (although others have found lower levels of effectiveness). If you are likely to be in close contact with someone infected, a mask cuts the chance of the disease being passed on. If you’re showing symptoms of coronavirus, or have been diagnosed, wearing a mask can also protect others. So masks are crucial for health and social care workers looking after patients and are also recommended for family members who need to care for someone who is ill – ideally, both the patient and carer should have a mask. However, masks will probably make little difference i

World will need more than one Covid-19 vaccine, GSK chief The world will need more than one Covid-19 vaccine so drug companies must partner in the race to develop the weapons to fight the coronavirus, the GlaxoSmithKline chief executive officer, Emma Walmsley, said on Wednesday. GlaxoSmithKline Plc and Sanofi SA said on Tuesday they would develop a vaccine to fight the fast-spreading coronavirus.  The drugmakers said they expect to start clinical trials for the vaccine in the second half of this year. If successful, the vaccine would be available in the second half of 2021. Walmsley said GSK’s partnership with Sanofi brings scale to the attempt to get a Covid-19 vaccine but that there was still an enormous amount of work to do.   Emma Walmsley, CEO of GlaxoSmithKline, said the vaccine GSK is developing with Sanofi could be available in 2021. Photograph: REX/Shutterstock “The world’s going to definitely need more than one vaccine when you think about demand in this hugel

distancing may need to continue until 2022, say experts   A security guard controls the distance between commuters on escalators at Catalunya station in Barcelona. Photograph: Jordi Boixareu/Zuma/Rex/Shutterstock Physical distancing measures may need to be in place intermittently until 2022, scientists have warned in an analysis that suggests there could be resurgences of Covid-19 for years to come. The paper, published in the journal  Science , concludes that a one-time lockdown will not be sufficient to bring the pandemic under control and that secondary peaks could be larger than the current one without continued restrictions. One scenario predicted a resurgence could occur as far in the future as 2025 in the absence of a vaccine or effective treatment. Marc Lipsitch, a professor of epidemiology at Harvard and co-author of the study, said: “Infections spread when there are two things: infected people and susceptible people. Unless there is some enor