Oxford Pauses Trial of AstraZeneca Covid-19 Vaccine in Children and Teenagers
With the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic rapidly spreading across several countries, including India, the incidence of cases among children turning is a serious concern. Providing some respite, a new study led by the University of Manitoba states that children may not be as infectious as adults in spreading the SARS-CoV-2coronavirus.
The study by a multi-disciplinary team of researchers found that the growth of the virus in cell cultures of nasopharyngeal swabs acquired from children were lower, and had lesser viral concentrations. Thus, the findings of the study can have crucial clinical and public health implications, the authors expressed.
The epidemiologist sitting before the cameras spoke with calm authority. It was late March, and as the coronavirus spread across the United States, it came as no surprise that journalists were turning to John Ioannidis. The Stanford University medical professor was famous for his rigorous assessments – and frequent debunking – of disease treatments. He was a consummate physician-researcher, combining fluency in the mathematical models that predict a pathogen s lines of attack with experience at the bedsides of patients suffering from Aids. The surprise came in what Ioannidis had to say. As many public health experts and US government officials were urging people to stay home to avoid infection, he speculated that the coronavirus might be less dangerous than assumed. News media were overhyping the disease. The greater risk lay not in Covid-19 but in overzealous lockdowns to prevent its spread.
A top scientist questioned virus lockdowns on Fox News. The backlash was fierce.
Peter Jamison, The Washington Post
Dec. 16, 2020
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The epidemiologist sitting before the cameras spoke with calm authority. It was late March, and as the coronavirus spread across the country, it came as no surprise that journalists were turning to John Ioannidis. The Stanford University medical professor was famous for his rigorous assessments - and frequent debunking - of disease treatments. He was a consummate physician-researcher, combining fluency in the mathematical models that predict a pathogen s lines of attack with experience at the bedsides of patients suffering from AIDS.
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