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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) exhibits variable immunity responses among hosts based on symptom severity. Whether immunity in recovered individuals is effective for avoiding reinfection is poorly understood. Determination of immune memory status against SARS-CoV-2 helps identify reinfection risk and vaccine efficacy. Hence, after recovery from COVID-19, evaluation of protective effectiveness and durable immunity of prior disease could be significant. Recent reports...

The FDA issued the final guidance document for first-in-human trial designs that consist of both dose escalation as well as multiple expansion...

The FDA issued the final guidance document for first-in-human trial designs that consist of both dose escalation as well as multiple expansion...

Beyond issuing guidance documents, what actions has the FDA taken to ensure inclusion of relevant patient populations in cancer clinical trials? And...

Beyond issuing guidance documents, what actions has the FDA taken to ensure inclusion of relevant patient populations in cancer clinical trials? And...

But in some people it moves into the bloodstream. once it moves into the bloodstream its what we call bacteremia, what we call a blood infection. if it moves to the next step, thats sepsis and sepsis causes organ dysfunction, the kidney, the heart, the brain, the liver, they start having issues working like they should. if thats not treated quickly enough or well enough it turns into septic shock and thats the life threatening condition that this could have advanced to. as you get older its easi...

It stops and people can be stabilized very quickly and theyre only in the hospital for a few days. if it progresses even more it turns into sepsis, thats a life-threatening area where the organ dysfunction starts happening. in other words, the kidney, the live, the brain, the lungs, arent working as well as they ordinarily do and thats harder to treat. if its not treated as well as we would like to, then it can turn into septic shock which has a 40 or 50% mortality rate. thats where we dont want...

Do you think it could offer unvaccinated a false hope or would it give them an excuse not to get vaccinated? >> it really is one of those things. i think we in the united states became very obsessed with just the death count, unfortunately, and it is unfortunate. when we think about 700,000 people dying, we havent had that much death as far as a.i.d.s. in the united states since the 1980s and this happened within 18 months but when we talk about covid-19, there are more consequences than just ho...