September 2020 CNN; A Covid-19 vaccine developed and tested in Russia generated neutralizing antibodies in dozens of study subjects, and while the vaccine often caused side effects such as fever, those side effects were mostly mild, according to data published Friday in the medical journal The Lancet. Russia drew criticism when it announced …

September 2020 YahooNews; Antibodies that people make to fight coronavirus last for at least four months after diagnosis and do not fade quickly as some earlier reports suggested, scientists have found. Tuesday’s report, from tests on more than 30,000 people in Iceland, is the most extensive work yet on the immune …

September 2020 Yahoo; The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told governors last week to prepare for the “large-scale” distribution of a coronavirus vaccine by Nov. 1, according to a letter obtained Wednesday by NBC News. In the Aug. 27 letter, the director, Dr. Robert Redfield, said …

August 2020 DailyNation; Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe and Principal Secretary Susan Mochache on Saturday pushed back against claims that they were complicit in the theft of funds allocated to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. After a week that saw Ministry of Health officials and management of Kenya Medical Supplies Agency …

August 2020 CNN; A 33-year-old man living in Hong Kong had Covid-19 twice this year, according to preliminary research out of China.  The pre-print study — which the University of Hong Kong said on Monday has been accepted to publish in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases — found that the man’s second case of …

August 2020 CNN; China has been using an experimental coronavirus vaccine on people who work in “high risk” professions since July, including front line medical professionals and border inspectors, a senior official from the national health commission revealed over the weekend. Zheng Zhongwei, director of the Science and Technology Development Center of the …

August 2020 BusinessInsider; Remdesivir is as close to famous as an antiviral treatment gets. The drug is the only one that has gotten emergency authorization from the FDA as a coronavirus treatment.  Gilead Sciences began developing remdesivir as a treatment for Ebola in 2009, and though it was never approved …

Chinese medical assistance is helping save the lives of many Ethiopians, an Ethiopian official said on Monday.Speaking to Xinhua, Jibril Abas, CEO of Trunesh Beijing Hospital, said the medical facility located in the southern outskirts of Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa has been able to give lifesaving medical treatment because of Chinese …

August 2020 DailyNation; The Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (Kemsa) has been left holding on to medical supplies worth Sh6 billion that it cannot move because they were bought at inflated prices in the guise of fighting Covid-19. The agency now claims that it is broke and is asking the government …

August 2020 NPR; By the second week in July, COVID-19 cases in North Carolina were climbing fast. With nearly 19,000 diagnoses over the previous two weeks, only five states recorded more new coronavirus cases than North Carolina did. “Today is our highest day of hospitalizations and our second-highest day of …