Dr. Offit explains that it is not the raw event numbers, but the distribution across arms that matter; one could have a significant trial even with few events, “assuming that you have just a handful or fewer people in your vaccine group who were ill.” And again, Offit replies, “I ...
More than a third of them hadn’t returned to their usual state of health 2 to 3 weeks after testing positive, the researcherswrotein theMorbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The older the patients, the more likely they were to say they their pre–COVID-19 health hadn’t come back. But...
Death Rate = (number of deaths / number of cases) = probability of dying if infected by the virus (%). This probability differs depending on sex. When reading these numbers, it must be taken into account that smoking in China is much more prevalent among males. Smoking increases the risks...
Seasonal flu is a huge killer and you’ve probably seen the numbers, it makes the Wuhan virus look a bit wimpy, that’s simply because of the sheer number of people that flu infects every year. And if the Wuhan virus started spreading ...
Restructuring economic development requires large numbers of educated and skilled talents, but this effort comes at a time when the size of China’s domestic workforce is shrinking. In response, both national and regional governments in China have been keen to encourage overseas Chinese talents and ...
During the state of emergency, the strongest requests were made for a defined period throughout the country or in areas with particularly large numbers of new infections. The state of emergency was declared by the government and a team of experts based on the infection rate and the ...
"Today, we have seven new cases," government spokesperson for all coronavirus-related matters Achmad Yurianto said at the State Palace in Jakarta, adding that all were imported cases. Yurianto said earlier that one patient tested positive for the virus died Wednesday at around 2 a.m. local ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen a surge in the numbers of preprints submitted by researchers [97]. While 807 preprints were deposited on medRxiv in the six-month period between 1st July 2019 and 31st December 2019, 6,771 preprints were submitted in the next six months (between 1st January...
The virus continues to spread at an unprecedented pace, largely driven by the highly transmissible Omicron variant (B.1.1.529), which is now present in 27 states. The daily case numbers are yet to match last year's enormous figures seen during the brutal second wave of COVID-19, while th...
government has set out a roadmap for reopening the country once it has fully vaccinated 80 per cent of its population. In New South Wales, the state with the highest vaccination rate, authorities hope to reach the target by the end of October. Victoria expects to reach the target by mid-...