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Corona Vaccine experiments gets started in US.

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T he vaccine was fast-tracked to human trials, but before it's ready for public use it will still be some time. A healthy volunteer in Seattle is the first person in the U.S to receive a dose of an coronavirus vaccine as part of a new clinical trial, government health officials announced yesterday March 16. T he National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) allowed the new vaccine to be fast-tracked into clinical trials without thorough testing in animal models, which usually stands as a strict prerequisite to human testing. While making the jump to human trials could bring the vaccine to market faster, this is only step one. O ver the next six weeks, researchers plan to enroll 45-participants in the trial, which will test the safety of the vaccine as well as its ability to induce an immune response in the volunteers. The trial will take place at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute (KPWHRI) in Seattle. N ew drugs must pass through thre...
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Small Businesses Need to Survive the Coronavirus Crisis

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   As State governments issue shelter-in-place orders, asking residents to remain home for all but essential errands, businesses - especially small local businesses - across the U.S. are facing difficult decisions. These institutions are crucial to our nation’s economy, employing 59 million people in the United States, or about 47.5% of the total private sector workforce. Their GDP contribution measured $5.9 trillion in 2014, the most recent year for which small business GDP data is available. The company, FASTSIGNS International, is included in these measures. We are a franchise brand with individual units owned and operated by local entrepreneurs. Businesses like ours support other businesses and organizations by providing signage and visual graphics for conferences, trade shows, events, point of purchase displays, and promotional advertisements. Suddenly - but understandably - demand for these services has dropped. Our business isn’t alone. I am also the chair of the Int...
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Hantavirus: Man dies from hantavirus on bus in China, other passengers tested positive

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A man from China’s Yunnan Province, who tested positive for hantavirus, died on a chartered bus on Monday even as the coronavirus outbreak has overtaken the entire world. The Epicentre of Covid-19 a disease that coronavirus causes is also said to be China. The first cases of Covid-19 were spotted in the wet city of Wuhan. Hantavirus is a virus that normally infects rodents, but does not cause diseases in them. Humans may become infected with Hantavirus through contact with rodent urine, saliva, or faeces. A person from Yunnan Province died while on his way back to Shandong Province for work on a chartered bus on Monday. He was tested positive for #hantavirus. Other 32 people on bus were tested. According to China’s Global Times, all 32 co-passengers that the infected person travelled with by a bus have been tested positive. It, in the US, is known as “New World” hantavirus, while in Europe and Asia, it is known as “Old World” hantavirus. New World hantavirus may cause hant...
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