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How to tell if your runny nose is due to COVID infection
16Nov By adminNo Comments
Entertainment

How to tell if your runny nose is due to COVID infection

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Katalin Karikó’s Nobel Prize Marks the Beginning of a Vaccine Revolution
2Oct By adminNo Comments
Technology

Katalin Karikó’s Nobel Prize Marks the Beginning of a Vaccine Revolution

No one expected the first Covid-19 vaccine to be as good as it was. “We were hoping for around 70 percent, that’s a success,” says Dr Ann Falsey, a professor of medicine at the University of Rochester, New York, who ran a 150-person trial site for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in 2020.Even Uğur Şahin, the co-founder and CEO of BioNTech, who had shepherded the drug from its earliest stages, had some doubts. All the preliminary laboratory tests looked good; having seen them, he would routinely tell people that “immunologically, this is a near-perfect vaccine.” But that doesn’t always mean it will work against “the beast, the thing out there” in the real world. It wasn’t until November 9, 2020, three months into the final clinical trial, that he finally got the good news. “More than 90 percent...
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