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A randomized, multicenter, placebo-controlled trial amongst healthcare workers found that oral hydroxychloroquine did not help prevent COVID-19 infections when used as pre-exposure prophylaxis.
Ivermectin during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ivermectin is an antiparasitic drug that is well established for use in animals and people. [1] The World Health Organization (WHO), [2] the European Medicines Agency (EMA), [3] the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), [4] and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) [5] all advise ...
March 22 saw 67 new cases in the state, with most counties in the state ending up with a new case. [7] On July 9, the Mississippi statehouse was closed due to an outbreak in the legislature, as 26 lawmakers and 10 Capitol employees tested positive for COVID-19. Lt. Governor Delbert Hosemann and Speaker of the House Philip Gunn were infected.
Luc Montagnier (US: / ˌ m ɒ n t ən ˈ j eɪ, ˌ m oʊ n t ɑː n ˈ j eɪ / MON-tən-YAY, MOHN-tahn-YAY, French: [lyk mɔ̃taɲje]; 18 August 1932 – 8 February 2022) was a French virologist and joint recipient, with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Harald zur Hausen, of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus ().
Paul Elias Alexander is a Canadian independent scientist, [1] and a former Trump administration official at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Alexander was recruited from his part-time, unpaid position at McMaster University to serve as an aide to HHS assistant secretary for public affairs ...
During her career, she has worked on assessing the healthcare response to the 2009 flu pandemic that resulted from Influenza A virus subtype H1N1, the 2013-2016 Ebola virus epidemic, and the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Neil Ferguson headed the Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team.. In February 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, using statistical models that considered data on the number of deaths and recoveries inside China, travellers outside China and in those affected that had returned home, Ferguson, Azra Ghani and their team estimated that detected cases of COVID-19 had ...
The position was established in 2019 by the Trump administration. On February 2, 2019, former physician to the president Ronny Jackson was selected to serve as chief medical advisor and assistant to President Donald Trump. [1] Jackson's job included advising Trump on public health policy. [2] Jackson left at the end of 2019, and the Trump ...
The timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic lists the articles containing the chronology and epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2, [1] the virus that causes the coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19) and is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic . The first human cases of COVID-19 occurred in Wuhan, People's Republic of China, on or about 16 November 2019. [2]
COVID-19 is the deadliest pandemic in US history; [357] it was the third-leading cause of death in the US in 2020, behind heart disease and cancer. [358] From 2019 to 2020, US life expectancy dropped by 3 years for Hispanic Americans, 2.9 years for African Americans, and 1.2 years for white Americans. [359]