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What Is Herd Immunity and Could It Help Prevent COVID-19?

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Written by Noreen Iftikhar, MD Source healthline.com Some leaders — for example, Boris Johnson, the prime minister of the United Kingdom — suggested it might be a good way to stop or control the spread of the new coronavirus, which causes COVID-19. Herd immunity is also called community immunity and herd or group protection. Herd immunity happens when so many people in a community become  immune  to an infectious disease that it stops the disease from spreading. This can happen in two ways: Many people contract the disease and in time build up an immune response to it (natural immunity). Many people are  vaccinated  against the disease to achieve immunity. Herd immunity can work against the spread of some diseases. There are several reasons why it often works. There are also many reasons why herd immunity won’t yet work to stop or slow the spread of  SARS-CoV-2  or COVID-19, the disease caused by an infection of the new  coronavir...

scientists believe they have a potential coronavirus vaccine

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Researchers from the  University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine  said they believe they have found a vaccine for the coronavirus after studying a similar viru What we have learned ? Scientists from  University of Pittsburgh  announced in a new study Thursday that they believe they could roll out a new vaccine quickly to “significantly impact the spread of disease.” You would get the vaccine through a patch about the size of your finger. The vaccine was tested on mice. It offered enough antibodies to defeat the virus. However, the  mice  were not tested for the long-term yet. There’s no clue what the side effects of the vaccine would be. These scientists said they have previously done research on coronaviruses like SARS and MERS, which led to the discovery. Dr.  Andrea Gambotto , associate professor of surgery at the Pitt School of Medicine,  said in a statement : “These two viruses, which are closely related to SARS-CoV-2, teach us th...

Dow Jones might sink another 20% as coronavirus numbers ticking up

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Halting a three-day winning streak, stocks tumbled Friday as investors appeared to sell the news on the House of Representatives passing the $2 trillion stimulus and as coronavirus case data grew increasingly ominous. The  S&P 500  slid 3.37% The  Dow Jones Industrial Average  lost 4.12% The  Nasdaq Composite  dropped 3.79% In a best-to-worst reversal,  Boeing (NYSE: BA ) was the Dow’s worst-performing name today after soaring on Wednesday and Thursday. Likely weighing on riskier assets Friday are reports that the COVID-19 case tally in the U.S. is now above 95,000, meaning the U.S. now has far more cases than China. Of course, that’s assuming China is publishing accurate numbers, which it probably isn’t, but that’s a conversation for another time and place. http://www.thetechnicaltraders.com/552.html Deaths in Italy, one of the epicenterof the coronavirus, surged about 10% in a day and the past 24 hours have been  deadlie...

Will coronavirus disappear in summer? May be not

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While the seasonal flu dissipates in the summer months as people stop congregating in close quarters, the same may not be true for COVID-19. Experts are looking to see how the virus spreads in the Southern Hemisphere, which is currently in summer, for clues.  At this point, experts are unsure whether COVID-19 will become an annual respiratory disease or if it can be stopped in time.  Could the severity of the new coronavirus (COVID-19), or its ability to spread, be less severe as temperatures warm up it the Northern Hemisphere?  A man from Brazil tested positive for the virus after recently traveling to Italy. His case made headlines because it showed that the virus is spreading into Latin America.  It also raised questions about how some countries are ill-equipped to deal with the epidemic, as well as how the virus may fare in warmer climates. Viruses can behave differently in different hemispheres, and this virus emerged in low temperatures.  Br...

Where the stock market heading with coronavirus monster?

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The stock market is reeling from north to south due to the hurricane called Corona, which struck it without warning. The world is worried and does not know when the end of this disturbing nightmare. Trump and his aides are trying to control this hidden genie, but to no avail. Investors are confused and do not find a satisfactory answer to their fears of a total collapse of the financial market in the whole world. In my opinion All what I see in the near term is that there will be a comprehensive global recession due to the weak production in China and the most important reason is the lack of consumer confidence in the safety of Chinese products and this will force American companies to search for other countries to manufacture their products, but this research will take a long time Applicable in addition to the Chinese consumer market loss, which will gradually weaken. For these reasons, I believe that American companies will suffer heavy losses in the short term and eventually will...
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Like Sherlock Holmes ... How Does Digital Forensics Track Corona Virus? In their attempt to solve crime cases, digital forensic  investigators in the public and private sectors use various methods and tools to identify, collect, and analyze data obtained from digital devices such as mobile phones. How can these methods be used to track the new Corona virus "Covid-19"? The Corona virus - which first appeared in Wuhan, China in December - killed more than 2,800 people, infected more than 85,000, and the World Health Organization officially declared a global health emergency. By analyzing the telephone records of people with diseases such as the Corona virus, digital forensics can determine the geographical areas of potential infection and outbreak. The best example of this is Steve Walsh. Steve Walsh is the man who caused 11 cases in the UK of Coronavirus, identified by using telephone records analysis. The 53-year-old has been described as a "great distributor"...
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The truth behind Coronavirus and stock market crash. If we look at the reality of what is happening now regarding the Coronavirus and the relationship with the stock market, we see that there is a clear correlation between the two sides, which manifests itself that certain parties want to disturb the issue of informing the stock price. The Coronavirus is considered dangerous without any doubt, but if we look at the statistics about it in comparison with the flu, we find that 60,000 have died because of it in the United States only last year and the media does not mention it, but only about 2500 people have died so far in China with a population of more 1300 million people and that considered as a fraction. Coronavirus like any other viruses kills the elderly people and who don’t have good immune system exactly like other viruses including the flu. It seems that the stock market was previously set to crash and was over heated and found corona as a main reason to do so.