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The U of M is tracking COVID-19 in sewage across the state, and using it to develop an early warning system.

other viruses and basically insert the code into the mRNA construct. "This is new technology that will make it more direct, more straightforward to design vaccines for other infectious diseases and tumors," Schacker said. Schacker says he already knows of groups using this method to work on a vaccine for HIV. "I think that's probably where a lot of the focus will go and I think influenza is another target that people are working on," he said. Schacker says there are two big advantages to mRNA vaccines. First, they seem to trigger a better immune response, which likely makes them more effectiv...

Advertisement Her family searched frantically for medical care, but hospitals were deluged and oxygen tanks were selling for $660 on the black market — $260 more than what Khan’s husband earns in a month. The family pooled resources to buy a tank, and then made a desperate decision. They were planning to travel nearly 700 miles to a private hospital where a friend works in hopes that Khan would be able to receive treatment there. “I’ve never seen a humanitarian crisis of this proportion in India,” said Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and...

Bodies pile up as vaccine campaigns sputter and COVID-19 variants spread Kate Linthicum, David Pierson, Emily Baumgaertner © Provided by The LA Times A COVID-19 patient sits inside a car and breathes with the help of oxygen provided by a Gurdwara, a Sikh house of worship, in New Delhi, India, on Saturday. India's medical oxygen shortage has become so dire that this gurdwara began offering free breathing sessions with shared tanks to COVID-19 patients waiting for a hospital bed. (Altaf Qadri / Associated Press) In India, bodies of COVID-19 victims are piling up so fast that ...

Walz blasts Trump administration for lack of vaccine stockpile Gov. Walz said the federal government has "botched" the rollout, with the latest news about the lack of a promised stockpile. Author: Danny Spewak Updated: 10:14 PM CST January 15, 2021 ST PAUL, Minn. — Gov. Tim Walz on Friday blasted the Trump administration for a “botched” vaccine rollout plan, accusing the federal government of misleading states about the existence of a federal stockpile to provide second-dose immunity.   Three days ago, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar releas...