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Social distancing: MIT study shows 23 to 27 feet is needed for Covid-19 protection, 4 times longer than CDC guideline of 6-foot human separation, 8 times longer than WHO recommendation of 3-foot separation
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Overwhelmed by demand for its promising Covid19 drug Remdesivir , Gilead paused emergency access to switch to a broader access program. The drug received FDA orphan drug status
The company says it will switch to a broader approach for its experimental drug, remdesivir. But it was overwhelmed by demand for a potential treatment promoted by President Trump
Neil Ferguson & Imperial College London grim report on virus made UK to abandon 'Herd Immunity' policy and US to take drastic action
It wasn’t so much the numbers themselves, frightening though they were, as who reported them: Imperial College London
Biotech Regeneron is developing a two-pronged drug to fight Covid-19: a 'passive-vaccine' antibody to prevent infection, or, antibody treatment for infected people at higher dose. The Company has succeeded for Ebola virus using the same technology
"We are optimistic, because we've done this approach to treat many human diseases," the company's CEO says
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