The results of a pair of randomized controlled clinical trials were announced today, both showing antiviral drug Remdesivir to be effective in treating hospitalized COVID-19 patients. As a result, the FDA is expected to issue an emergency approval for Remdesivir very soon. It’s still unclear how much this will matter in the overall course of
There are now more than 3.2 million global cases. The US gained more than 27,000 since yesterday, for a total of 1,063,351. There have been over 2,300 deaths in the US in the last 24 hours. There have been nearly 228,000 deaths around the world from the pandemic virus. It’s possible that recovered COVID-19 patients
Drug shortages in the United States have begun. We don’t have a medication for treating coronavirus (and we might not have a vaccine for some time), but supply chain issues in the United States are making it hard for hospitals and patients to get their hands on diabetes and asthma medications patients need for chronic health
There are over 3.1 million global cases. Cases have grown by over 600,000 since this time last week. The US has over 1,000,000 cases with nearly 60,000 deaths. Nuclear risks thanks to the pandemic? Plants can’t operate properly if their workers are sick, and these plants require operations to run 24/7. The folks who run
Millions of Americans have received stimulus payments from the CARES Act, but many still haven’t. Here’s who’s eligible: US citizens, permanent residents, and qualifying resident aliens… …who aren’t claimed as dependents on another tax return… …have a valid Social Security Number, unless one half of a married couple is in the armed forces… …and whose
Tyson execs say the food supply chain is in danger, but I have questions. We may well be on the cusp of food shortages — many smart people I follow and talk to think we are, and I definitely think the risk is high enough that we should all prepare for it — but I
You haven’t left the house in a month, and you’d kill for some Chinese or Mexican. Relatable! But as bad as you crave restaurant food, you don’t want to take a chance on getting infected with COVID-19. Also relatable. I wish at this point I was able to say, “Here’s the good news!” Sadly, I
In a viral YouTube video that many on our social feeds are citing as proof that the lockdowns were a costly mistake, a California osteopath named Daniel Erickson uses testing results from his chain of emergent care clinics to make the following familiar (and wrong) claim: we don’t have to worry about COVID-19 because it’s
Global cases have grown by over 100,000 since yesterday for a total of over 2.8 million. The US has over 923,000 cases, up from 700,000 one week ago. Cases in the US have grown by over 223,000 in the last week. Are we facing another Great Depression? We have the makings for a depression equal
“Flattening the curve.” This popular phrase is one of many new additions COVID-19 has made to our cultural vocabulary. Hopefully, it’s something we’re all actively doing and not just talking about. But this curve flattening language is really just a new way to talk about an old practice — preppers have been flattening all kinds
This guest post was written by Margit Burmeister, a Professor of Neuroscience, Genetics, and Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics at the University of Michigan. Last month, one of my former students, Ari Allyn-Feuer, described three possible scenarios of for the ending of the coronavirus pandemic. Like SARS, we might manage to put the virus completely to
On the morning of April 9, a truck pulled up outside Kerry Mergen’s egg farm in Albany, Minnesota. Fifteen workers got out with hoses of carbon dioxide. They’d come to euthanize Mergen’s 61,000 chickens. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that Mergen got one day’s notice that the Daybreak Foods chickens he’d been charged with raising
There are now more than 2.6 million global cases. The US has over 837,000 of those cases. The US had over 1,400 deaths in the last 24 hours. Truck drivers keep the country moving, but truckers are getting hit by the downturn: Global famine? The UN warns that widespread famine is possible. The Middle East,
There are over 2.5 million global cases. Cases have grown by over 500,000 since this time last week. The US has over 800,000 cases with over 45,000 deaths. Wealthy Americans have bugged out to bunkers. New Zealand is a prime location, apparently. Many left before travel restrictions were enacted. There’s been a moratorium on non-resident
Writing in Vox, disaster experts Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, Gary Cecchine, and Craig Bond of the RAND Corporation, along with former FEMA head W. Craig Fugate, are warning of potential calamity when COVID-19 meets hurricane season in a few weeks. In short: An “above-normal” hurricane season is expected this summer, with a greater probability of hurricanes than
