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America’s New Monkeypox Vaccine Strategy Rests on a Single Study

Once again, the United States is messing up its approach to vaccines. Three months into its monkeypox outbreak, just 620,000 doses of the two-injection Jynneos shot—the nation’s current best immune defense against the virus—have been shipped to states, not nearly enough to immunize the 1.6 million to 1.7 million Americans that the CDC considers at highest risk. The next deliveries from the…

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Trump announces authorization of plasma treatment for COVID-19

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President Trump on Sunday announced an emergency authorization for convalescent plasma to be used as a coronavirus treatment, dubbing it a “truly historic” declaration.

The designation by the Food and Drug Administration will make it easier for some COVID-19 patients to obtain the treatment — which utilizes the antibody-rich blood plasma of those who have recovered from the virus — as clinical trials and studies continue.

“I’m pleased to make a truly historic announcement in our battle against the China virus that will save countless lives,” Trump said at a press conference with Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and FDA Director Stephen Hahn.

“Today’s action will dramatically expand access to this treatment.”

Sunday’s announcement comes after the FDA last week halted an emergency approval for the approach to allow for more data to be reviewed.

This prompted Trump to accuse the agency of deliberately slow-walking coronavirus treatments and therapeutics before the November election.

Hahn said Sunday that the treatment is “safe and shows promising efficacy.”

It’s not clear whether the FDA has received any additional data from clinical trials in the last week.

The new action is based primarily on preliminary data from a Mayo Clinic-led study that was part of an “expanded-access program” sponsored by the FDA to speed up access to experimental therapy.

More than 70,000 coronavirus patients in the US have been treated with blood plasma. Preliminary data from 35,000 of them found there were fewer deaths among those given the treatment within the first three days of diagnosis and also among those given plasma with the highest levels of virus-fighting antibodies.

“If you donate plasma you could save a life,” Azar said Sunday.

In a letter describing the emergency authorization, the chief scientist for the FDA, Denise Hinton, noted: “COVID-19 convalescent plasma should not be considered a new standard of care for the treatment of patients with COVID-19.”

“Additional data will be forthcoming from other analyses and ongoing, well-controlled clinical trials in the coming months.”

On Sunday, Hahn said FDA staffers were working day and night to “cut through red tape” when it comes to coronavirus treatments and therapeutics, at the president’s behest.

Just one other drug, remdesivir, so far has been approved for emergency use by the agency.

With Post wires

डब्ल्यूएचओ की मुख्य वैज्ञानिक ने कहा, कोरोना को काबू करने में लग सकते हैं पांच साल

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विश्व स्वास्थ्य संगठन की मुख्य वैज्ञानिक का कहना है कि कोविड-19 महीमारी को नियंत्रित करने में चार से पांच साल का समय लग सकता है। मगर उम्मीद है कि एक प्रभावी टीके से वायरस का अंत हो सकता है। वहीं अन्य विशेषज्ञों ने वायरस पर अंकुश लगाने की…

Chief Scientist: we need to transform our world into a sustainable ‘electric planet’

Alan Finkel, Office of the Chief Scientist

I want you to imagine a highway exclusively devoted to delivering the world’s energy.

Each lane is restricted to trucks that carry one of the world’s seven large-scale sources of primary energy: coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, hydro, solar and wind.

Our current energy security comes at a price, the carbon dioxide emissions from the trucks in the three…

Wanna naturally lighten your hair? Grab a lemon (but there’s a catch)

https://www.wellandgood.com/good-looks/how-to-naturally-lighten-your-hair/

In high school, the name of the game was to use Sun-in, AKA that hair spray that somehow magically lightens your strands a shade or two as the summer months pass by. These days, as a grown-up, I’ve been looking for tips on how to naturally lighten hair that are more, well, modern.

The method I’m seeing everywhere?…

WASHINGTON | Scary warming at poles showing up at weird times, places

WASHINGTON — Scientists are seeing surprising melting in Earth’s polar regions at times they don’t expect, like winter, and in places they don’t expect, like eastern Antarctica.

New studies and reports issued this week at a major Earth sciences conference paint one of the bleakest pictures yet of dramatic warming in the Arctic and Antarctica. Alaskan scientists described to The Associated Press…