The disease caused by the novel coronavirus has a name: Covid-19. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, announced the name Tuesday, giving a specific identifier to a disease that has been confirmed in more than 42,000 people and caused more than 1,000 deaths in China. There have been fewer than 400 [...]
In this Let’s Talk Exascale podcast, Kathy Yelick and Lenny Oliker from LBNL describe how the ExaBiome project is developing computational tools to analyze microbial species—bacteria or viruses that typically live in communities of hundreds of different species. CC0 License, Pixabay Read and listen here… The post Podcast: Supercomputing the Human Microbiome appeared first on Healthier Environment Living [...]
It’s not clear how patients are screened or treated in China’s makeshift wards, nor even how long they are to remain. As the new coronavirus continued to spread unabated within the city of Wuhan, China, government officials last week imposed draconian measures. Workers in protective gear were instructed to go to every home in the city, removing infected [...]
Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) information, and list of all current EUAs The Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) authority allows FDA to help strengthen the nation’s public health protections against CBRN threats by facilitating the availability and use of MCMs needed during public health emergencies. Under section 564 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act), [...]
There is no definitive answer as to whether the novel coronavirus can be transmitted via aerosols so far, according to medical expert on Sunday. Feng Luzhao, a researcher with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said that at a press conference that aerosol transmission refers to the mixing of the virus with droplets [...]
The country is scrambling to prevent a larger outbreak even as it prepares for the Tokyo Olympics. Japan already had several confirmed coronavirus cases when a giant cruise ship arrived at the port of Yokohama last week. Now, with the disclosure that 64 people from that ship have tested positive for the virus, Japan is [...]
Lessons From Previous Epidemics Transmissibility and severity are the 2 most critical factors that determine the effect of an epidemic. Neither the 2009 pandemic influenza A(H1N1) virus ([H1N1]pdm09) pandemic or the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) or the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) epidemics had the combination of both high transmissibility and severity. [...]
The coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China, has now been identified in 28 other countries as authorities scramble to contain the outbreak. Officials and volunteers at train stations and airports on country borders are at the front lines of screening individuals who could potentially spread the virus. (CC BY 2.0), flickr, DFID Read more… [...]
Precautionary move sparked by case of woman who lives on third floor of Hong Mei House at Cheung Hong Estate A string of newly confirmed cases citywide reported from Monday evening into the early hours of Tuesday brings local total to 42 Read more… The post Coronavirus: More than 100 Tsing Yi residents evacuated [...]
China’s novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) total grew by just over 3,000 new cases today, as an advance team from the World Health Organization (WHO) arrived in the country to lay the groundwork for an international joint mission with Chinese colleagues. In other developments, more illnesses were reported with links to a family cluster centered at a [...]
