Dr. Saskia Popescu
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The Trump Administration Shut a Vaccine Safety Office Last Year. What’s the Plan Now?
The office was dedicated to the long-term safety of vaccines. Experts say plans to track coronavirus vaccines are fragmented and “behind the eight ball.”
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🙃 The Trump Administration Shut a Vaccine Safety Office Last Year. What’s the Plan Now? - The New York Times
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It's time to map medicine's sexual and gender harassment iceberg - STAT
We should have been measured by the work we did. Instead we struck the "iceberg of sexual harassment," and it sank our careers.
Facial Masking for Covid-19 | NEJM
Correspondence from The New England Journal of Medicine — Facial Masking for Covid-19
The Price for Not Wearing Masks: Perhaps 130,000 Lives
The pandemic death toll could be lowered by next spring if more Americans wear masks, a new analysis finds.
The false promise of herd immunity for COVID-19
Why proposals to largely let the virus run its course — embraced by Donald Trump’s administration and others — could bring “untold death and suffering”.
Pandora Report: 10.23.2020
Tomorrow is World Polio Day! In 1988, the World Health Assembly pledged to prioritize polio eradication, and the virus was still present in 125 countries. By 2017, only 3 countries were reporting c…
Rapid Risk Assessment: Increased transmission of COVID-19 in the EU/EEA and the UK – thirteenth update
In this update, we assess the risk for the general population and vulnerable individuals in relation to the increase in COVID-19 notification rates in the EU/EEA and the UK.
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Rapid Risk Assessment: Increased transmission of COVID-19 in the EU/EEA and the UK – thirteenth update
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French PM Castex extends Covid-19 curfew to 38 more departments as cases surge
Six days after curfews came into effect in greater Paris and eight other metropolitan areas, French Prime Minister Jean Castex announced new measures to stem the spread of coronavirus as cases rise a…
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French PM Castex extends Covid-19 curfew to 38 more departments as cases surge
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High-density amplicon sequencing identifies community spread and ongoing evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in the Southern United States
SARS-CoV-2 is constantly evolving. Prior studies focused on high case-density locations, such as the U.S. Northern and Western metropolitan areas. Thi…
How to Handle the Holidays with Family and COVID-19
The holidays are approaching and you might be wondering how you can safely navigate the season with extended family while still dealing with all the safety precautions surrounding COVID-19.
Do I need to wear a mask if I’m 6 feet away from others?
Do I need to wear a mask if I’m 6 feet away from others? Health experts recommend wearing masks in public and keeping your distance from others in most cases, but whether you should do both...
Virus spikes have officials looking to shore up hospitals
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Hospitals across the United States are starting to buckle from a resurgence of COVID-19 cases, with several states setting records for the number of people hospitalized and...
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Covid-19 vaccine trials cannot tell us if they will save lives
Vaccines are being hailed as the solution to the covid-19 pandemic, but the vaccine trials currently underway are not designed to tell us if they will save lives, reports Peter Doshi, Associate Editor at The BMJ today.
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“None of the trials currently underway are designed to detect a reduction in any serious outcome such as hospitalisations, intensive care use, or deaths.” Covid-19 vaccine trials cannot tell us if they will save lives eurekalert.org/e/Jb84 via @bmj_company @EurekAlert
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‘All You Want Is to Be Believed’: The Impacts of Unconscious Bias in Health Care
One woman shares her experience trying to get care in a Bay Area hospital for COVID symptoms. At nearly every turn, a doctor dismissed her complaints. Is bias part of why people of color are dispro…
U.S. FDA meeting on COVID-19 vaccines to discuss criteria for emergency nod
The U.S. health regulator's criteria for allowing emergency use of a COVID-19 vaccine and plans to monitor its safety after a regulatory go-ahead, are among the topics to be discussed at a closely watched meeting scheduled for Thursday.
Can a pair of jeans kill the coronavirus?
Diesel and other brands are rolling out antimicrobial clothes. Experts say they miss the point.
We Finally Know What a Dinosaur’s Butthole Looks Like
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