Dec 18, 2020
Well, now experts are suggesting you do a little “self test” in the morning – by seeing if you can smell the coffee.
As we all know by now, one of the symptoms of COVID-19 is losing your sense of taste and smell. Well, now experts are suggesting you do a little “self test” in the morning – by seeing if you can smell the coffee. According to James Schwob, a professor of developmental, molecular, and chemical biology at Tufts University School of Medicine, One of the things that can be done pretty easily, pretty objectively by someone at home would be to take some ground coffee and see how far away you can hold it and still smell it. (
Expert panel votes FDA SHOULD give Moderna s COVID-19 vaccine emergency approval amid hopes the U.S will soon have a second shot to help get 20 million Americans vaccinated by the end of 2020
A panel of FDA experts voted that the agency should approve Moderna s coronavirus vaccine and recommend whether the shot should be approved
With their endorsement, Moderna s shot will almost certainly get emergency approval tonight or tomorrow
Two people in Moderna s trial had severe allergic reactions: one who got a placebo, and a vaccine recipient who had anaphylactic shock 63 days later
Moderna determined neither were linked to the shot, and allergic reactions are generally immediate, not months later
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On Dec. 14, the Sanford and Susan Greenberg Prize to End Blindness honored 13 scientists who have made extraordinary headway in the worldwide battle against blindness. Among them was James G. Fujimoto, the Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical Engineering within MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS).
Recipients of the Greenberg Prize are honored in two categories: the Outstanding Achievement Prize, highlighting strides toward treating and curing blindness, and the Visionary Prize, providing funding for scientists whose research exhibits significant potential in ending this debilitating condition. Fujimoto, a principal investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), was awarded the Visionary Prize for his research, which focuses upon the areas of biomedical imaging, optical coherence tomography, and advance