Antibody tests key to ending COVID-19 lockdowns

Antibody tests key to ending COVID-19 lockdowns

Paris (AFP) – It’s the key that opens to door from total lockdown: serologic testing, which will show definitively who has contracted COVID-19 and is in theory safe to return to work. “Everyone’s waiting for serologic testing, the whole world,” said France’s Health Minister Olivier Veran. He said that the global research community was focussing …

Trump expects Russia, Saudis to agree 10M barrel oil output cut

Trump expects Russia, Saudis to agree 10M barrel oil output cut

Brent rises more than 30% as US president says he expects agreement for 10m barrel production cut Some market analysts have said the oil demand collapse is so severe, amid global lockdowns and travel bans, that any supply cuts from major producers would have a limited impact Some market analysts say the oil demand collapse …

Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine: Current evidence for their effectiveness in treating COVID-19

Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine: Current evidence for their effectiveness in treating COVID-19

Oxford COVID-19 Evidence Service Team Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences University of Oxford Nick Note:  I edited this document. I did not add or subtract from the parts i am reporting. I wanted to get you to the salient parts. If you would like to read the entire article …

Dow falls 400 pts after Fed’s pessimistic forecast

Dow falls 400 pts after Fed’s pessimistic forecast

San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Mary Daly claimed on Tuesday that the United States economy will “get worse” before it bounces back after the coronavirus pandemic. The Dow Jones Industrial Average index dropped 400 points on Tuesday after San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Mary Daly said that the national economy will “get worse” …

Italy Risks Losing Grip in South With Fear of Looting, Riots

Italy Risks Losing Grip in South With Fear of Looting, Riots

As Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte fights to hold Italian society together through a crippling nationwide lockdown, the depressed south is turning into a powder keg. Police have been deployed on the streets of Sicily’s capital, Palermo, amid reports gangs are using social media to plot attacks on stores. A bankrupt ferry company halted service to …

Dow closes up over 650 pts as Microsoft, J&J lead

Dow closes up over 650 pts as Microsoft, J&J lead

United States stock markets finished the trading session on Monday higher despite concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic. National guidelines for social distancing were extended last night until April 30 as United States President Donald Trump said: “We shouldn’t declare victory and then not have victory.” Trump also agreed with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin …

Nurses Die, Doctors Fall Sick and Panic Rises on Virus Front Lines

Nurses Die, Doctors Fall Sick and Panic Rises on Virus Front Lines

A supervisor urged surgeons at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in Manhattan to volunteer for the front lines because half the intensive-care staff had already been sickened by coronavirus. “ICU is EXPLODING,” she wrote in an email. A doctor at Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan described the unnerving experience of walking daily past an …

Trump: US extends social distancing guidelines until April 30

Trump: US extends social distancing guidelines until April 30

(CNN)The United States will extend its set of social distancing guidelines until April 30, President Trump said in a coronavirus news briefing at the White House on Sunday. “We will be extending our guidelines to April 30 to slow the spread,” the President said. “On Tuesday, we will be finalizing these plans and providing a …