The first shots of COVID-19 vaccine are being delivered, but it will likely be months before doses are widely available for everyone at U.S. drugstores and doctor’s office. Details are still being worked out, but officials expect widespread availability by the middle of next year. A second coronavirus vaccine is being reviewed this week by […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a tough year for people across the globe, with billions facing at least one lockdown. And it’s not over—there may be further lockdowns needed in the new year. Luckily, researchers have been busy studying what effect they have—and how best to cope. Lockdowns are stressful because they create uncertainty, fear […]
Friday, December 11, 2020 U.S. FDA authorizes COVID-19 mRNA vaccine for emergency use; companies are prepared to deliver first doses in the U.S. immediately Pfizer and BioNTech previously announced an agreement with the U.S. Government to supply doses in 2020 & 2021 In collaboration with Operation Warp Speed, Pfizer and BioNTech, as well as other […]
Days before her 91st birthday, Margaret Keenan became the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine outside of clinical trials. Keenan, who was sporting a polka-dot cardigan over a festive shirt, was given the first dose of a two-dose vaccine at the University Hospital Coventry in England, setting off the first […]
Immune cells called “killer T cells,” also known as cytotoxic or cytolytic CD8 T cells, normally stay in the bloodstream and do not enter organs and other tissues, according to a new study from scientists in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The discovery, published in Cell, may help resolve many […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has once again highlighted the uncertainty inherent in science. The results of a Germany-wide study conducted by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Charite—Universitaetsmedizin Berlin show that most Germans want to be openly informed about this uncertainty. The results have now been published in the journal JAMA Network […]
COVID-19 has been found in conjunctival swabs and tears of infected patients, according to a new study published in The Ocular Surface. The discovery prompted a research team including Shahzad Mian, M.D., an ophthalmologist at Kellogg Eye Center, to analyze the prevalence of COVID-19 in human post-mortem ocular tissues. The results: the virus can infiltrate […]
With COVID-19 rates spiking in November, and talks of more shutdowns happening in December, the world is impatiently waiting for a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine. Since the beginning of the virus, researchers have been working on developing a vaccine, but May 15, 2020 marked the beginning of Operation Warp Speed (OWS)—our nation’s ambitious attempt […]
Start planking every day and your body won’t be the same. No matter what your personal journey with exercise is, just about everyone has tried some kind of workout routine at some point in their life. Maybe it was only in high school gym class, but it still counts. And because of that, you probably […]
This article originally appeared in the December 2020 issue of Men’s Health. YOU MAY not know the name Eric Goode, but he’s responsible for keeping you entertained and giving you something to talk about during the early part of the COVID-19 shelter-in-place. As as one of the directors of Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness, […]
