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Over the coming weeks, Ohio will award $1 million to five residents who received a COVID-19 shot, in a lottery aimed at boosting the vaccination rate across the state. (
CBS News)
As of Thursday at 8:00 a.m. EDT, the unofficial U.S. COVID-19 toll reached 32,815,408 cases and 583,690 deaths, increases of 35,994 and 842, respectively, since this time yesterday.
A report from the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response said the world s failures allowed the pandemic to turn into a catastrophic human crisis, and suggested a top-to-bottom overhaul. (
Science)
More than 4,000 people in India have died for the second day in a row, as the country s raging COVID-19 crisis spreads to rural villages. It is a hell out here, said one patient at a hospital in northern Uttar Pradesh. (
For decades, a rare disease crawled across Papua New Guinea. When scientists realized what was behind kuru, it caught everyone by surprise. But similar diseases can still be transmitted through food.
The ongoing revision of the European legislation on blood, tissues, and cells offers an opportunity to tackle the highly problematic dependency on plasma collected in the US for manufacturing plasma-derived medicinal products (PDMPs), according to an EU health official.
The head of the sector for substances of human origin at the Commission’s DG SANTE, Stefaan Van der Spiegel, recalled at a recent virtual event how Europe excessively depends on US plasma imports.
“Europe and the whole planet is quite dependent on the plasma collected in the US. That means that 5% of the world population is collecting 60% of plasma,” he said.