OLYMPIA — On Dec. 24 the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) released the latest statewide situation report on covid-19. The report shows substantial decreases in transmission that are still
Some scientists worry that coronavirus vaccines will not be as effective against the UK mutation (version B.1.1.7) that caused quite a stir over the weekend. The UK coronavirus mutation has been spreading rapidly in Great Britain and might be more infectious than its predecessors but there’s no evidence it can cause more severe COVID-19 or evade vaccines. Some experts think the vaccines might be less effective against this strain, saying that.
Health Department: COVID-19 transmission flattening, but not enough to reverse trends from early November Posted: December 24, 2020 774
Figure 1: Re estimates for eastern (pink) and western (green) WA, with 2 standard deviation error bars. Our most recent estimates show Re has decreased in both eastern and western Washington since peaks in late October (western Washington) and early November (eastern Washington) to values at or slightly above 1 . To reduce levels of cases and hospitalizations, Re needs to drop to a value substantially below 1 for a sustained period of time.
The Washington State Department of Health Thursday released the latest
statewide situation report on COVID-19. The report shows substantial decreases in transmission that are still not enough to return the state to the lower levels of disease activity seen earlier in the fall. Based on the timing of this trend, the plateaus may be due in part to the current restrictions on gatherings and certain b
Michael Worobey, a biologist at the University of Arizona, has seen more than 100,000 different strains of the virus that causes Covid-19. But when he saw the new variant from the UK, he noticed something different. “This is the first variant I’ve seen during the whole pandemic where I took a step back and said: ‘Whoa,’ “ he remembers.
Philosophers from outside the Arab world contributed to the first issue, specifically from Germany and the US
Updated 14 April 2021
April 13, 2021 23:11
JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia’s first philosophy journal has been issued, with its editor-in-chief saying that the country was witnessing a “tangible philosophical renaissance.”
The Saudi Journal of Philosophical Studies (SJPS) was launched by the cultural platform Mana, which was set up two years ago.
According to its editor in chief, Sarah Al-Rajhi, the principal aim of the journal was to help researchers in the Kingdom, the Arab world and the West to publish their work without any financial cost and in line with accurate scientific standards.