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We spoke to immunologist Dr. Arturo Casadevall about convalescent plasma therapy for COVID-19 to find out what it is and why it holds promise.
Some researchers and doctors have started using plasma from people recovering from COVID-19 to treat others who have developed the disease. Medical News Today spoke to Dr. Arturo Casadevall, from Johns Hopkins University, to learn more about this approach. In the search for an effective treatment for COVID-19, an old method of fighting infectious diseases has recently resurfaced: transfusions with convalescent plasma. Plasma is a component of blood. This method has a simple premise. The blood of people who have recovered from an infection contains antibodies. Antibodies are molecules that have learned to recognize and fight the pathogens, such as viruses, that have caused disease. Doctors can separate plasma, one of the blood components that contain such antibodies, and administer it to...
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Bienvenue dans notre sélection des meilleurs ordinateurs portables de 2020. Dans ce guide, vous trouverez le meilleur ordinateur portable correspondant à vos besoins, quil sagisse dun Ultrabook, dun Chromebook, dun MacBook, dun PC Gamer ou dun 2-en-1. Lannée 2020 remet à plat le classement des meilleurs ordinateurs portables au monde, favorable depuis des années à Dell et à son XPS 13. Aujourdhui, la première marche du podium se joue face à HP et sa réédition du Spectre x360. Nous entrons désormais dans une course aux performances et aux mises à jour fréquentes. Comme vous le verrez dans les descriptions ci-dessous, les modèles 2020 rivalisent daméliorations conséquentes. Cependant, les Dell XPS 13 et HP Spectre x360 ne sont pas forcément des ordinateurs parfaits pour tout le monde. Il ...
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Pregnant people have make an in-person visit to pick up the pill — even if they’ve already seen a provider about getting an abortion.
As the coronavirus pandemic ground almost every U.S. industry to a standstill, the Trump administration urged healthcare professionals to use telemedicine to see patients remotely and stem the spread of COVID-19. But the administration didn't really extend that advice to one big group: abortion providers. Abortion rights advocates are trying to change that. On Wednesday, the American Civil Liberties Union sued the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services, accusing the agencies of jeopardizing public safety by refusing to let doctors dispense abortion-inducing drugs remotely in the middle of a deadly pandemic. In a medication abortion, people take doses of two drugs several hours apart. The first drug, mifepristone, has long been regulated by whats ...
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“I never ever, ever knew that the Republican leadership of this state would put so many of us at risk for partisanship to cover up a lie,” said one Pennsylvania state House member.
Pennsylvania Democrats are furious after a Republican House lawmaker announced hed tested positive for coronavirus over a week ago but didnt tell them. State representative Andrew Lewis, a 33-year-old who represents a district partially encompassing the capital Harrisburg, revealed he tested positive for COVID-19 in a Facebook post on Wednesday afternoon. Lewis said his positive test came back on May 20 and that every [legislative] member or staff member who met the criteria for exposure was immediately contacted and required to self-isolate for 14 days from their date of possible exposure. Lewis cited privacy concerns for not disclosing his diagnosis. Out of respect for my family, and those who I may have exposed, I chose to keep my positive case private, Lewis continued. Now that I h...
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Ah, The Sopranos. Did you ever have more love for such a despicable group of conmen, thieves, and murderers? Tony, Carmela, Christopher, Uncle Junior, Janice, Silvio, Paulie Walnuts, Artie, Dr. Melfi... OK, come to think of it, there are a couple of players in there who aren't conmen, thieves, or murderers, but they are few and far between, and their complicated relationships with the mobsters they know (and sometimes love) help to layer the dense world of the iconic series created by David Chase.Binge It! HBO's Rome Was Big-Budget TV Before Game of Thrones The thing about Tony Soprano is that the character, as personified by the late, great James Gandolfini, is so identifiable to regular folks in so many ways that it's often difficult to not get behind him, even when he's committing crav...
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Après près d'un an et demi de tests bêta, la nouvelle mise à jour majeure de Windows 10 est enfin disponible en téléchargement. Cette actualisation, également connue sous le nom de Windows 10 version 2004, apporte une foule de nouvelles fonctionnalités remarquables au sein du système d'exploitation de Microsoft. Parmi celles-ci figurent un tout nouvel explorateur de fichiers, une barre de recherche améliorée, la prise en charge de connexions sans mot de passe et une nouvelle interface Cortana, l'assistant numérique se retrouvant transformé en une application distincte tout en offrant davantage d'interactions conversationnelles. Parmi les autres ajouts, citons une option de téléchargement dans le cloud pour faciliter la réinitialisation de Windows 10 à sa configuration dusine, ainsi que de...
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Gab users have been instructed to tweet at and write to the president urging him to join the network, which is filled with conspiracy theories, racism, and antisemitism.
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. As President Donald Trump fumes at Twitters decision to fact-check two of his tweets this week, a ready-made replacement social network is trying to convince him to join. Gab, a far-right social network that is filled with conspiracy theories, racism and antisemitism, is rolling out the red carpet for the president, with a verified account that has already amassed over 27,000 followers. The account, which has the same handle and profile picture as Trumps Twitter account, has a blue tick to show its a verified account. The holding page also claims Trump has been a member since 2016, even though he has yet to actually join and Gab itself only launched in 2017. In an email sent to its members on Wednesday night, Gab said...
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Because Cuccinelli's USCIS position was designated initially as "first assistant" to the USCIS director, the Trump administration reasoned that Cuccinelli could become acting chief under a provision of the 1998 Federal Vacancies Reform Act. But Moss wrote that Cuccinelli's appointment did not comply with the FVRA because "he never did and never will serve in a subordinate role that is, as an 'assistant' to any other USCIS official." Rather, Cuccinelli was "assigned the role of principal on day-one," Moss wrote. The order strikes down directives from Cuccinelli that sped up asylum-seekers' initial screenings limited extensions of those hearings, on the grounds that Cuccinelli lacked authority to issue them. When Cuccinelli was promoted to No. 2 at DHS he told the staff he would be succee...
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