China has recently further relaxed its COVID-19 restrictions, a major shift from its "dynamic zero-COVID" policy. Experts said the symptoms of the prevalent Omicron variant were much milder than other strains despite being more contagious. As a result, the country's ...
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In particular, the Italian companies with a fast innovation reaction to COVID‐19 are not the ones that possess all the competencies internally but are rather those able to orchestrate internal and external resources by means of 'fast' and flat management. Internal commitment and a culture of ...
Dr Tromberg, who leads a project at the NIH which invests in new covid-19 testing technologies that can bescaled up rapidly to mass production, reckons the 22 products in his pipeline which are already at the manufacturing stage will add 2.5m tests a day by the end of this year—helpin...
A review of the funding, operational, technological, and regulatory factors that allowed for fast development of COVID-19 vaccines shows which will remain relevant for future efforts—and which won’t.
The FDA is looking to quickly approve Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine after it was unanimously backed by a panel of experts. Yesterday’s advisory panel meeting voted 20-0 in favour of approving Moderna’s vaccine and although the vote is non-binding, you could probably bet your house on t...
The COVID-19 pandemic caused more than 800,000 infections and 40,000 deaths by the end of March 2020. However, some of the basic epidemiological parameters, such as the exponential epidemic growth rate and R0 are debated. We developed an inference approach to control for confounding factors in...
Zhong's estimate followed a report in late April by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimating that more than 82 percent of the country's population had been infected by the coronavirus. Whether there are symptoms or not, if the antibody corresponding to COVID-19 in a ...
1) 19. COVID-19(新型冠状病毒肺炎) is spreading(传播) fastin our country. Tens of thousands of peoplehave been infected (感染). We should __ to prevent ourselves from getting infected.① wear a mask (口罩)when going out② often wash our hands③ play with friends outside④ go to a ...
Data from the central bank showed that China's new yuan-denominated loans totaled 1.4 trillion yuan ($206.5 billion) in December, up by 266.5 billion yuan year-on-year, indicating continuous credit support for the real economy. Wang said that China's economic recovery is expected to help boos...