Sunday, April 5, 2020

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Coronavirus Update: Get the Latest News Here

The U.S. now has the most cases in the world, with more than 300,000. The CDC is advising that people use cloth masks or face coverings in public. Here's what you need to know.
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THE ROLE OF A.I. &SUPER COMPUTERS IN COVID/CORONA vaccine and medicine


Mar 6, 2020 - The British AI start-up, owned by Google's parent company Alphabet, ... can take months but the use of machine learning could speed up that ... Scientists racing to create a potent vaccine against the virus need as ... It comes as the number of cases of coronavirus across the world ... Use our tool to find out ...
Mar 23, 2020 - How AI can help develop a drug to treat coronavirus ... In recent weeks, researchers at London-based BenevolentAI have been ... The likes of Sanofi, the French pharmaceutical giant, are now rolling out clinical trials for Covid-19 ... "The opportunity for AI to speed up the discovery of vaccines, drugs and ...
Mar 21, 2020 - AI is speeding up drug research. At the end of the day, the war on the novel coronavirus is not over until we develop a vaccine that can immunize ...
Mar 17, 2020 - Naturally, some believe that artificial intelligence may help. ... drugs, to the genetic properties of the virus and efforts to develop vaccines. ... The hope is that AI will accelerate insights into the novel coronavirus by ... publishers to open up research on the coronavirus, a number of big ... Require Opt-Out.
Mar 16, 2020 - Artificial intelligence can see "signals" in data earlier than humans, says the ... and researchers are speeding to discover, test and deploy a vaccine. ... we're we're kind of woefully unprepared for these novel viruses that come up, ... I think people will say there's a lot of opportunity here to figure out these ...
Mar 27, 2020 - The technology is being used to speed up the development of testing kits and ... AI experts to develop new data mining techniques that can help the scientific ... “We need to come together as companies, governments, and scientists ... drugs that could be used to treat coronavirus patients before a vaccine ...
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Can distributed computing help speed up the coronavirus ...


https://www.weforum.org › covid-19-distributed-computing-vaccine
Mar 17, 2020 - A virtual supercomputer could speed up the search for a vaccine for COVID-19. ... “This is where you come in,” say the FAH researchers.
Mar 20, 2020 - This could help scientists create the most effective vaccine. ... The speed at which the virus spreads means they must accelerate their research.
Mar 24, 2020 - The consortium will be using an "unprecedented amount of computing power" to look at finding new COVID-19 treatments and ultimately vaccines ...
Mar 22, 2020 - ... at least 16 supercomputers to help speed the discovery of vaccines and ... will allow approved researchers to use powerful computing ... The announcement comes as health-care and government officials ... out, it has been downloaded over 18,000 times by researchers who ... Speed Up Your Home Wi-Fi.
Mar 14, 2020 - Scientists are using IBM's Summit, the world's fastest supercomputer, to help find promising candidate drugs to fight the coronavirus epidemic. ... Using the computer's muscle, researchers digitally simulated how 8,000 different ... GPUs can carry out more simultaneous operations than a CPU can, so leaning ...
Mar 27, 2020 - The announcement of this consortium comes on the coattails of the ... entire research community is ready, willing and eager to help assist ... Researchers can apply for access to the computers to run AI-assisted ... Another supercomputer collective that is taking on COVID-19 is the ... E-Newsletter Sign-up.
Mar 17, 2020 - Supercomputer-aided development of possible antiviral therapies, rapid lab ... and grants to develop new vaccine technologies: Coronavirus responses such as ... protein spikes on the outside of the virus make it look like the sun's corona. ... “Because we've seen what can come of similar co-operation and ...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2020

The Food and Drug Administration approval for testing kit by Bodysphere Inc. result for COVID-19 in 2 minutes.

The Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency approval Tuesday for a serological testing kit produced by Bodysphere Inc. that can detect a positive or negative result for COVID-19 in two minutes.

Why it matters: Access to testing has improved in the U.S. thanks to commercial labs, but the average wait time for a patient's results is four to five days — with some reports of it taking more than a week.
These antibody tests could help people know if they are able to go back to work, as well as aid researchers in tracking the scale and death rate of the disease — key data for current and future pandemic policies.
They're especially useful for determining whether health care workers have some immunity and are at lower risk if they go back to work.

Yes, but: The Bodysphere two-minute test can only detect the coronavirus in people who have had the infection for several days, meaning the test can't be used too early on when the body hasn't produced enough antibodies.
The big picture: The FDA has been rushing to approve tests from companies that promise quicker results.
Abbott Laboratories received emergency authorization last week to produce portable coronavirus tests, which the company indicates can detect the virus within five minutes.

FDA Approves Anti-Malarial Drugs Chloroquine And Hydroxychloroquine For Coronavirus Treatment

FDA Approves Anti-Malarial Drugs Chloroquine And Hydroxychloroquine For Emergency Coronavirus Treatment

Rachel Sandler
Updated: 3/31/20 at 7:45 p.m. PST
Topline: The Food and Drug Administration on Sunday issued an emergency authorization for experimental coronavirus treatments using chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, anti-malaria drugs touted by President Donald Trump despite inconclusive clinical proof of their efficacy. 
  • The Department of Health and Human Services said Sunday hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine products can be distributed and prescribed by doctors through the Strategic National Stockpile “to hospitalized teen and adult patients with COVID-19, as appropriate, when a clinical trial is not available or feasible.”
  • HHS said Germany’s Sandoz has already given 30 million doses of hydroxychloroquine to the Strategic National Stockpile, the federal government’s inventory of medical supplies for public health emergencies, while Bayer has donated a million doses of chloroquine.
  • The agency is fast-tracking a process that usually takes years while the FDA conducts clinical trials in New York, a hot spot for the virus. 
  • HHS said the emergency authorization was issued because the potential benefits of the product outweigh the risks and acknowledged that “anecdotal reports suggest that these drugs may offer some benefit in the treatment of hospitalized COVID-19 patients,” but cautioned that “clinical trials are needed to provide scientific evidence that these treatments are effective.”
  • Trump had falsely claimed that the FDA had approved the drugs for coronavirus treatment before Sunday. 
  • Confusion over their use has led some Americans to seek over-the-counter replacements, such as an Arizona man who bought a nonpharmaceutical form of chloroquine phosphate, a common chemical used to clean fish tanks, which killed him and landed his now-widow in intensive care. 
  • The CDC warns against taking nonpharmaceutical chloroquine phosphate without a prescription and the supervision of a healthcare provider because it “can cause serious health consequences, including death.”
Chief critic: Some in the scientific community are concerned there hasn’t been enough testing of the drugs.
“It’s a difficult issue because it’s an emotional issue. With people having no other options available, it’s hard to say that if there’s something that seems like it may work, they should be denied the option to try it. The part that makes this more complicated is that there was an irresponsible, in my opinion, expression that this actually is effective when there is no real scientific evidence that it is,” Dr. Kenneth Kaitin, director of the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, told Forbes.
Today In: Forbes
Key background: Trump continues to praise the anti-malarial drugs in daily press briefings, Fox News has devoted segments to the drugs’ potential benefits, and others, including the president’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and Turning Points USA founder Charlie Kirk, have promoted chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as coronavirus cures. Twitter eventually removed a Giuliani tweet that falsely said “hydroxychloroquine has been shown to have a 100% effective rate treating COVID-19.” There is no proven cure or vaccine for the coronavirus.
News peg: Scientists hope chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine—decades-old drugs that are used to treat malaria, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis—may be used to treat the coronavirus, but early studies have provided mixed evidence proving their effectiveness and the drugs may entail risks such as vision problems or cardiac arrest. The frenzy surrounding the treatment has caused some doctors to hoard hydroxychloroquine—which is sold under the brand name Plaquenil—by writing prescriptions for themselves or for their families. Some state pharmacy boards have issued rules limiting prescriptions, including Texas, Louisiana, Ohio and North Carolina.

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

WebMD; News Brief:-FDA Authorizes Rapid-Result (within 5 minutes.)Coronavirus Test

FDA Authorizes Rapid-Result Coronavirus Test

Coronavirus March 30, 2020 - The FDA has authorized a coronavirus test that the manufacturer says can tell if someone is infected with the virus within 5 minutes.
The test is meant to be used in places like a doctor's office, emergency room, or urgent care center. The test will provide results through a platform currently used by many of those locations for tests like flu and strep, instead of sending the throat or nasal swab to a lab for analysis.
The FDA's emergency use authorization (EUA), issued on Friday, does not mean that the FDA has approved the test, but that it is allowing its use because of the coronavirus outbreak.
In a news release, Abbott Diagnostics Scarborough in Illinois said the test can tell if a person has the coronavirus in as little as 5 minutes and tell if someone doesn't have the virus in 13 minutes.
A shortage of tests has hindered efforts to contain the virus in the U.S, which leads the world with more than 100,000 cases of COVID-19. Testing has been focused on priority groups, such as hospitalized patients and health care professionals with symptoms, according to CDC guidelines.
Abbott said it will make the tests available to health care providers next week and work with the government to send the tests to areas where they're most needed.

Sunday, March 29, 2020

use 3Dprinting tech:to mass produce mask&ventilator


use 3Dprinting tech:to mass produce mask&ventilator 


 FIRST 3D PRINT NEW 3D PRINTERS ;
THEN USE THE 3D PRINTERS TO MASS PRODUCE MASKS ;GLOVES;VENTILATORS


3D-printer companies build face shields, masks, more to fight ...


5 days ago - Most 3D printers today are best suited to making plastic parts, not cloth or filters used in face masks. Based in Redwood City, California, Carbon is ...
5 days ago - HP 3D Printed Masks for COVID-19 response; Designed by research institute CIIRC CVUT ... A single print can produce 300 test swabs at a time enabling ... frequently reviewing 3Dprinters and sharing his technical expertise.
Mar 20, 2020 - Manufacturers such as Vauxhall and Airbus are planning to repurpose their factories and utilize 3D-printing technology to create parts for ventilators to treat patients with the coronavirus. Prime Minister Boris Johnson appealed to companies to help in a “wartime” effort to ...

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