The UK government recently hosted a virtual Global Vaccine Summit, to raise funds for vaccination programs in the fight against infectious diseases. The summit was Gavi’s third pledging conference, following the success of the Berlin summit held back in January 2015. The new pledges made during the Global Vaccine Summit will allow Gavi to protect […]
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Robots replacing journalists and editorial workers for news coverage in Microsoft’s major news outlets, MSN, Microsoft News, and Microsoft Edge. The company has been introducing AI into their work in the past few months, encouraging their staff to utilize the technology. Recently, automation has even filled more permanent roles in the US and UK. Microsoft […]
The deployment of 5G has causes several concerns amongst people, to such an extent that anti-5G movements have sparked across various countries, and several 5G conspiracy theories started gaining momentum on social media. Some far right-wing people have even developed 5G conspiracy theories linking 5G to the current COVID-19 pandemic. Other activists went as far […]
iBio, Inc. a biologics contract manufacturing organization and a biotechnology innovator recently announced the initiation of preclinical immunization studies for their second vaccine platform against COVID-19. The new vaccine “IBIO-201” merges antigens from the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein with their patented lichenase booster molecule “LicKM” that is designed to optimize immune response. The addition of the […]
Tech start-ups are rushing to develop immunity passports. These are official certificates that are given to people that have recovered from COVID-19 or were asymptomatic before. The idea is that people link their identity to a coronavirus test result and then share their status with third parties such as employers, restaurants and airports. That’s how […]
Future medical technology is nowhere near floatation tubes or de-aging machines. What the world is seeing however, is a shift towards the beginnings of technologies unearthed by the ongoing pandemic that could act as seeds for more radical innovations later on. As some countries attempt to ease certain areas of the lockdown to pump some […]
WHO Academy, the esteemed learning center scheduled to launch early next year, is set to amplify learning for impact through several digital and face to face courses, reaching millions of healthcare workers and others worldwide via the latest technologies and advancements in learning science. As a fundamental part of their efforts, WHO Academy is working […]
As the pandemic continues spreading, the coronavirus is now disrupting lifesaving immunization services around the globe, and putting millions of children at risk of diseases like measles, diphtheria, and polio. This warning comes jointly from WHO the World Health Organization, Gavi the Vaccine Alliance, and UNICEF. The warning came just before the Global Vaccine Summit […]
37 nations have agreed to sign the C-TAP initiative aimed at developing vaccines, treatments, tests and other health technologies to fight coronavirus, accessible to all. C-TAP short for COVID-19 Technology Access Pool, was proposed early in March by Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado who joined WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus during the video launch […]
Malaria drug, hydroxychloroquine, has been sent to Brazil at the behest of US President Donald Trump. The president is pitching the drug as a possible cure or treatment for Covid-19 and dispatching it to one of the hardest hit countries. The problem is that the medication has yet not been backed up by enough clinical […]