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Race Emerges as Vaccine Problem; U.S. Cases Slow: Virus Update Bloomberg 1/31/2021 (Bloomberg) -- Initial data from New York City show “profound” racial disparities in who is receiving the vaccine, Mayor Bill de Blasio said. New York state reported the fewest new cases in more than a month. Across the U.S., infections continue to slow. A top health adviser to President Joe Biden warned that a new variant of the coronavirus circulating in the U.K. will likely become the dominant strain in...

Race Emerges as Vaccine Problem; U.S. Cases Slow: Virus Update Bloomberg 1/31/2021 (Bloomberg) -- Initial data from New York City show “profound” racial disparities in who is receiving the vaccine, Mayor Bill de Blasio said. New York state reported the fewest new cases in more than a month. Across the U.S., infections continue to slow. A top health adviser to President Joe Biden warned that a new variant of the coronavirus circulating in the U.K. will likely become the dominant strain in...

Race Emerges as Vaccine Problem; U.S. Cases Slow: Virus Update This content was published on January 31, 2021 - 22:26 January 31, 2021 - 22:26 (Bloomberg) -- Initial data from New York City show “profound” racial disparities in who is receiving the vaccine, Mayor Bill de Blasio said. New York state reported the fewest new cases in more than a month. Across the U.S., infections continue to slow. A top health adviser to President Joe Biden warned that a new variant of the coronavirus circula...

Covid: the hidden burden of overloaded Swiss hospitals Significant hidden health costs lie behind the overloading of intensive care units (ICU), according to a recent Swiss study. © Wirestock | Dreamstime.com The study, done by Switzerland’s National COVID-19 Science Task Force, calculated that the number of non-Covid patients in ICU has more than halved since the beginning of the second wave of infections in Switzerland. “Decline in attendance of ICUs by ‘usual’ patients, and inabili...

Covid: schools to close in some Swiss cantons After consulting with the Swiss National COVID-19 Science Task Force, Switzerland’s scientific Covid advisory team, Switzerland’s federal government has decided to leave schools open. However, cantons can still decide to close them if they decide to and some have done so. © Jan Gajdosik | Dreamstime.com For the Task Force classroom teaching should only be prevented if the epidemiological situation becomes dangerous or very dangerous. The decisi...

Sunday press: government evaluating Covid measures for schools An older pupil in a school in canton Graubünden undergoes a voluntary corona test earlier this month Keystone / Gian Ehrenzeller The Swiss government is considering whether to tighten coronavirus measures for older pupils, according to a report in the NZZ am Sonntag. Meanwhile the debate over school closures continues, as concerns grow over the new virus variants. This content was published on January 17, 2021 - 16:19 January 1...

Covid: tension rises between Switzerland’s scientists and politicians Tension between Switzerland’s scientists and politicians is rising, according to RTS. © Petr Pohudka | Dreamstime.com On Saturday, Christian Althaus, an epidemiologist working for the Swiss National COVID-19 Science Task Force, Switzerland’s scientific Covid advisory team, announced his resignation and voiced his frustration on Twitter. “One of the reasons why I left the scientific task force this week. Politicians ...

© 2020 EPFL / Fred Merz 2020 was a year unlike any other. Here at EPFL, COVID-19 upended our plans in the areas of education, research and innovation. And while we will remember this past year for its pandemic-related headlines, our ten most-read news articles once again reflect the wide diversity of science. A transparent surgical mask to keep smiling The fully transparent surgical mask, called HelloMasks, combine transparency, resistance and porosity. They are small enough to filter out viru...

2021 set to be Year of the COVID-19 vaccine but production and delivery challenges remain Toggle share menu Advertisement 2021 set to be Year of the COVID-19 vaccine but production and delivery challenges remain A medical staff member holds a box while simulating to carry the COVID-19 vaccine during a drill days before starting the vaccination process from the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, in Mexico City 23 Dec 2020 04:44PM (Updated: 23 Dec 2020 05:09PM) ...

An extraordinary year is drawing to a close. ETH News takes a look back at the highlights that emerged amidst difficult and unsettling times, at ingenious ideas, fascinating science and solidarity in action during – and despite – the coronavirus pandemic. By playing the video you accept the privacy policy of YouTube.Learn moreOK (Video: Omar Zeroual / ETH Zurich) January New year, new inventions: ETH researchers created an 18-carat gold that is ten times lighter than nor...