Top news of the week: 05.05.2020.
World Health Organization, Health care, Arabian Peninsula, The Economist, Patient, RNA interference
Coronavirus
Remdesivir was once consigned to the pharmaceutical scrap heap. Here’s how the drug gained approval as a treatment for coronavirus patients. https://t.co/4U4Yo4qMZn
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.
We will not give up. It’s what @DrTedros said Wednesday at the 3-month mark of @WHO’s global public health emergency declaration. But I remember the weeks before that, when we were telling countries to prepare: https://t.co/0D6nHUDS7U https://t.co/9q9D4NC5c3
OpenWHO Director-General's opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 - 29 April 2020
On the same day, WHO also issued its first public Disease Outbreak News, publishing technical information for the scientific and public health communities, as well as the world’s …
Terrific look at the Covid-19 Riddle: Why Does the Virus Wallop Some Places and Spare Others? https://t.co/vd1CkZCl1K by @hkbeech, @alissanyt and @ruthmaclean
OpenThe Covid-19 Riddle: Why Does the Virus Wallop Some Places and Spare Others?
Experts are trying to figure out why the coronavirus is so capricious. The answers could determine how to best protect ourselves and how long we have to.
RT @declanwalsh: Update to yesterday's story on Yemen's first coronavirus cluster - the health minister says that two of the five cases have died. An ominous sign. https://t.co/9s8i8pl8R3
OpenAs Fighting Surges, Yemen Is Hit With 1st Cluster of Covid-19 Infections
A handful of coronavirus cases in Aden appeared to confirm fears that the virus has been spreading, stoking concerns of an outbreak that could quickly overwhelm Yemen’s devastated health ...
Commentary: "While everyone else is fleeing from COVID-19, my ICU teammates and I come in to confront that pestilence every workday," writes @epictetusMD.
"Exceptional, yes, but also ordinary. That’s just our job." https://t.co/s7EJVf5in2
OpenDedication And Donuts: The Extraordinary And The Everyday In The COVID-19 ICU
"Life in the intensive care unit always blends the extraordinary with the everyday. That is true now more than ever. "
RT @DrSenait: “Be fast. Have no regrets. You must be the first mover. The virus will always get you if you don’t move quickly. If you need to be right before you move, you will never win … Speed trumps perfection.”
@DrMikeRyan
#COVID19
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Open10 key lessons for the future to be learned from fighting Covid-19
A picture is emerging of the kind of society needed to withstand the future outbreaks scientists say are inevitable
Only 5% of 482 covid-19 patients who came to the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris between February 28th and April 9th were daily smokers https://t.co/bS4ldNTafd
OpenCovid-19 Smokers seem less likely than non-smokers to fall ill with covid-19
That may point towards a way of treating it
The average “price-to-book” ratio of DAX firms’ market capitalisation is now hovering barely above one https://t.co/kLnxhoWJZI
OpenDespondent DAX The covid-19 crisis exposes the frailties of Germany’s biggest firms
The main German stockmarket index holds up a mirror to the world’s fourth-biggest economy