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16 junho 2020

Youth and COVID 19: Response, Recovery and Resilience - OECD: For young people, and especially for vulnerable youth, the COVID-19 crisis poses considerable risks in the fields of education, employment, mental health and disposable income. Moreover, while youth and future generations will shoulder much of the long-term economic and social consequences of the crisis, their well-being may be superseded by short-term economic and equity considerations.
UK funds human trials of potential COVID-19 vaccine from Imperial

15 junho 2020

Norway suspends virus-tracing app due to privacy concerns
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Retracted coronavirus (COVID-19) papers – Retraction Watch
Rare, super coronavirus antibodies likely to yield vaccine, say Stanford, UCSF experts: The discovery of antibodies that block the most infectious elements of the coronavirus is helping Bay Area scientists unlock the many mysteries of human immunity, and could be crucial in the development of a vaccine. Epidemiologists have found “neutralizing antibodies” in fewer than 5% of COVID-19 patients, but the ones they are now attempting to isolate are unique in their ability to prevent SARS-CoV-2 — the specific coronavirus that causes the illness — from entering human cells.
A Moderna coronavirus vaccine could only cover 6% of the world's population in a year: Yes, but: 1 billion vaccine doses may sound like a lot, but government and public health leaders would inevitably still have to make hard choices about who should get the vaccine first.