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Remdesivir Vs. COVID: Encouraging Developments And A Very Strange Case Show It’s A Viable Fix

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Remdesivir Vs. COVID: Encouraging Developments And A Very Strange Case Show It’s A Viable Fix
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Remdesivir For COVID-19, A Strange Case Illustrates Potential Fix:
So one of the biggest problems with the Coronavirus pandemic is the lack of work done ahead of time.

As Dr. Michael Osterholm warned us earlier in the year, a vaccine could have been started 16+ years ago during the SARS outbreak.

Governments continued to ignore the threat even when the next big version of COVID came along in MERS.

Well a strange case just gave us a huge data point for one of the few treatments we have that’s a left-over from a previous virus problem…

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New Coronavirus Waves Coming Even With Vaccine Imminent, Don’t Let Your Guard Down. Winter Is Coming!

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New Coronavirus Waves Coming Even With Vaccine Imminent, Don’t Let Your Guard Down. Winter Is Coming!
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New Coronavirus Waves. Two Vaccines Means We’re Saved, Right?:
Now that we have two coronavirus vaccines, and possibly a third if AstraZeneca can get their data straight,

You’d think that the worst is now behind us, and that we can all relax.

But that’s just not true because carriers are still spreading the disease.

Or even people who have mild symptoms they don’t recognize and then turn into non-ironic “Karen”-style reviews of scented-candles!

Because especially for this pandemic, as the saying goes: things will still get worse before they get better…

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Pfizer & BioNTech’s COVID-19 Vaccine. A New Hope. 90% Effective, Coming Soon To A Medical Theater Near You?

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Pfizer & BioNTech’s COVID-19 Vaccine. A New Hope. 90% Effective, Coming Soon To A Medical Theater Near You?
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Pfizer’s Coronavirus Vaccine. A New Hope, With Some Caveats:
So we got our miracle! A Coronavirus vaccine!

What this constitutes in medicine really is kind of amazing.

Even the incredible work done on Ebola was based on elements that had been in the pipeline for years, so this work is like bottled-lightning!

There would have been absolutely nobody in March of this year who guessed a working vaccine by year’s end would be possible or even likely.

But here we are, and although more good news is coming, we are in the phase Tom Petty once said was the hardest part. Waiting…

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COVID-19 Antibody Duration: The Horror Of Coronavirus Immunity Limited To 3 Months. Or Is It?

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COVID-19 Antibody Duration: The Horror Of Coronavirus Immunity Limited To 3 Months. Or Is It?
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Lifespan Of Coronavirus Antibodies. Do We Really Get Just 3 Months?:
We’ve recently gotten two more pieces of bad news.

One was that coronavirus can survive on surfaces a lot longer than we used to think, especially in cold weather.

The second just came along a short while ago in a British study stating what many doctors feared.

For some reason contrary to other diseases, antibodies to coronavirus don’t stick around longer than three months.

Pretty spooky. But a team at Mount Sinai just found some more encouraging results…

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Coronavirus On Surfaces: It May Stick Around Longer Than You Think. -Especially This Winter. +Infographic

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Coronavirus On Surfaces: It May Stick Around Longer Than You Think. -Especially This Winter. +Infographic
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Covid-19 On Surfaces. It Could Stick Around Awhile In Cold Weather:
One of the scariest elements of a new situation is not knowing what to do.

Virus-hunter docs bridged some of that gap by figuring out and demonstrating that coronavirus spreads through the air.

And mask-wearers everywhere are disappointed by those who refuse to wear them.

But as time goes on, researchers are finding out increasingly-frightening information that makes messy people look even more dangerous.

And part of that is related to COVID also spreading like another disease we’re afraid of…

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Preventing COVID-19 Infection: Actual Scientific Evidence Suggests Dietary Supplement May Reduce Your Risk

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Preventing COVID-19 Infection: Actual Scientific Evidence Suggests Dietary Supplement May Reduce Your Risk
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Preventing Covid-19 Can A Supplement Really Help?:
Until a cure arrives, most of us are looking for anything we can do to stay healthy,

Because one of the scariest things a person can do is to be in the middle of a pandemic without a vaccine.

Especially given how easily the virus droplets can get to you.

So we’ve previously talked about how to prevent COVID-19 with masks & behavior,

And even social-activities that could aggravate the spread.

But other than behavioral-changes, is there anything else you can do? A Boston University team would say yes…

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Real-Time Sanitizers + Coronavirus: Can Ultraviolet Light Save The World Economy Before A Vaccine?

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Real-Time Sanitizers + Coronavirus: Can Ultraviolet Light Save The World Economy Before A Vaccine?
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Can Ultraviolet Disinfectants Save The World Before A Vaccine?:
The coronavirus pandemic has turned the world upside down.

And we’re all looking for some time out in the future when we can escape purgatory and just get back to “normal”.

To survive until then we all wear our masks, some of us poorly, and also try to socially-distance as best we can, too.

One of the other things we do to kill the bug is to clean both hands and surfaces,

But a crafty-team at Columbia found out we might be able to do a lot more than that until the vaccine arrives…

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Coronavirus Activity Risk: Which Of Them Are Safe During A Pandemic? Disease-Experts Create Simple Guide

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Coronavirus Activity Risk: Which Of Them Are Safe During A Pandemic? Disease-Experts Create Simple Guide
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Which Activities Are Risky Or Safe During A Pandemic?:
So one of the biggest problems we have right now is there isn’t much that’s normal.

And even as things reopen and we try to reestablish some normality, we know there are new rules to follow.

Nowhere is this more apparent than in the continued closings of places like Restaurants, Bars, & Gyms.

But Restaurants do have one exception: Outdoor Dining while it’s warm enough to do so.

Why is that? Well disease experts in Arizona set out to answer everybody’s questions on that type of thing…

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