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Coronavirus
China lab rejects COVID-19 conspiracy claims, but virus origins still a mystery https://t.co/pJuYZAX1MY
OpenChina lab rejects COVID-19 conspiracy claims, but virus origins still a mystery
Claims that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan have no basis in fact, the head of the lab told Reuters, adding that there were still no ...
RT @JohnsHopkins: A new study by epidemiologists at @JohnsHopkinsSPH examines data from the CDC in Shenzhen, China, where extensive testing and contact tracing stopped the #coronavirus outbreak. https://t.co/GLGvgwTREz
OpenStudy of data from Shenzhen, China, provides key COVID-19 insights
Analysis of data from Shenzhen, China, shows how extensive testing and contact tracing stopped the outbreak in a southern Chinese megacity
“Remdesivir killed every known coronavirus in..tests. Then researchers..found that the drug also killed the viruses in infected animals..not just coronaviruses that cause the common cold, but also SARS and MERS — even a coronavirus that infects only mice” https://t.co/acgPOG9S1g
OpenHow Remdesivir, New Hope for Covid-19 Patients, Was Resurrected
The drug failed as a treatment for hepatitis and Ebola. With federal funding, scientists trained it on the coronavirus.
RT @eliowa: With states opening up before widespread testing is available and 2nd waves appearing in Singapore, Germany, etc. we need to consider Face Shields as PPE in the community to prevent second waves, save lives and rescue the economy
Not bad for $3 of plastic
https://t.co/paUukxeexn
OpenCommunity Use of Face Shields to Contain COVID-19
This Viewpoint discusses the prospect that face shields might be more effective than face masks at reducing community SARS-CoV-2 transmission and calls for rapid adoption of face ...
The 22-year-old Nigerian medical student who has experienced two epidemics in the past six years, here is the story of how he fight against COVID-19 in northeast China's Jilin Province https://t.co/aLzbxlKiNw https://t.co/dWmH5jW9Ki
OpenAn African medical student's fight against COVID-19 in China
Mustapha (L) helps a teacher to post anti-epidemic poster in Changchun University of Chinese Medicine in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province, April 27, 2020. Mustapha …
Serbia honors Chinese #COVID19 experts with military medals https://t.co/uxFdrRUd61 https://t.co/lHRziOHQsc
OpenSerbia honors Chinese COVID-19 experts with military medals
(Chinese medical expert team to Serbia/Handout via Xinhua) "When other great powers were fighting over every package of masks and gloves and shattered any sense of humanity and …
Beijing city will lower its emergency response to the novel coronavirus epidemic from the top level to the second level starting April 30 https://t.co/Cv9YZyE65o https://t.co/CW0xx9nxaL
OpenUpdate: Beijing city lowers COVID-19 emergency response level
161 High School in Beijing, capital of China, April 27, 2020. Senior high schools in Beijing on April 27 restarted classes for seniors, who will take the national college entrance …
China is one step closer to winning the battle against the COVID-19.
How has China done it?
The following key words may shed some light on this: https://t.co/dCh3PT3Lcl https://t.co/C7R2936wdj
OpenKey words in China's fight against COVID-19
BEIJING, May 1 (Xinhua) -- Hubei, the central China province hardest hit by novel coronavirus, is now clear of COVID-19 cases as the final 12 patients in its provincial capital of …