India's Covid cases passed 18m after another world record daily infection and death tally and as the govt rejected reports of problems with its vaccine campaign.
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The US government told its citizens to leave India after the country reported another record number of daily infections and deaths on Thursday.
The country has confirmed 18.4 million Covid-19 cases and more than
204,000 deaths.
New cases rose globally for a ninth week as a surge in India outweighed declines in most regions, according to the World Health Organisation. India’s Covid outbreak is a humanitarian crisis, US Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren said on Twitter.
India’s COVID outbreak is a humanitarian crisis. I’m leading a letter to @moderna tx, @Pfizer, and @jnjnews to find out what steps they’re taking to expand global access to their vaccines to save lives and prevent variants from spreading around the world. https://t.co/d4qW6CkrBwpic.twitter.com/vhbUwGjHrr – Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren)
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BOSTON - After patients with cancer undergo surgery to remove a tumor and sometimes additional chemotherapy, tools are used to identify patients at highest risk of recurrence. Non-invasive tools to detect microscopic disease are of especially high value. In a new study published in
Clinical Cancer Research, a team led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has evaluated the first tumor-uninformed test that detects cancer DNA circulating in the blood of patients following treatment.
The test, called Guardant Reveal, developed by precision oncology company Guardant Health, is tumor-uninformed because, unlike previous tests for circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in the blood, this test does not require knowing the particular mutations that were present in the patient s tumor.
India reported 379,257 new COVID-19 cases and 3,645 new deaths on Thursday, according to health ministry data. It was the deadliest day so far for any country hit by the pandemic.
India’s best hope to curb its second deadly wave of COVID-19 was to vaccinate its vast population, said experts, and on Wednesday it opened registrations for everyone above the age of 18 to be given jabs from Saturday.
But the country, which is one of the world’s biggest producers of vaccines, does not have the stocks for the estimated 600 million people becoming eligible.
Many people who tried to sign up said they failed, complaining on social media that they could not get a slot or they simply could not get online to register as the website repeatedly crashed.
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BOSTON The foods people buy at a workplace cafeteria may not always be chosen to satisfy an individual craving or taste for a particular food. When co-workers are eating together, individuals are more likely to select foods that are as healthy or unhealthy as the food selections on their fellow employees trays. We found that individuals tend to mirror the food choices of others in their social circles, which may explain one way obesity spreads through social networks, says Douglas Levy, PhD, an investigator at the Mongan Institute Health Policy Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and first author of new research published in