We are entering our second calendar year of coronavirus lockdowns and panic. The economic damage resulting from arbitrary lockdowns has been so catastrophic, even New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is calling for the economy to reopen. “The cost is too high,” he tweeted. “We will have nothing left to open.”
A new website, Global.health, will collect and openly share granular data on individual Covid-19 cases around the world.
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Last January, Samuel Scarpino wasn’t sure what to make of Covid-19. The director of Northeastern University’s Emergent Epidemics Lab, he, along with every other epidemiologist in the world, was trying to interpret the earliest data on the new virus.
He was soon pulled into working on a spreadsheet, started by a group of international epidemiologists, to collect and openly share granular data on individual Covid-19 cases around the world. Today, that project launched its complete website, Global.health, which will enable open access to more than 5 million anonymized Covid-19 records from 160 countries. Each record can contain dozens of data points about the case, including demographics, travel history, testing dates, and outcomes.
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U.K. to Test COVID Vaccine Mixing By Ralph Ellis
Feb. 5, 2021 The United Kingdom says it has launched the world’s first study on whether giving a person different COVID-19 vaccines in a two-dose regimen is safe and provides more protection against the coronavirus.
Eight hundred people over 50 years old will be given the Oxford/AstraZeneca and the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines in different combinations and at different intervals, the U.K. Department of Health and Social Care said in a news release.
If vaccine mixing works, it would give health authorities a new advantage in fighting the pandemic that has killed more almost 2.3 million people worldwide, including 110,000 in the United Kingdom.
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