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Professor Calum Semple awarded OBE for COVID-19 efforts
The University of Liverpool’s Professor Calum Semple has been recognised with an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for his services to the COVID-19 response.
As a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), Professor Semple has played a key role in advising the UK Government…
Healthy Returns: The path forward with Dr. Mark Kortepeter
Dr. Mark Kortepeter, infectious disease expert and “Inside the Hot Zone” author, about testing, vaccines, and why 6 months into lockdown, we still haven’t contained the coronavirus.
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Why is Covid-19 More Deadly Than Ebola? An Infectious Disease Doctor Explains
In the pantheon of infectious disease killers, Ebola virus stands out as one of the deadliest. The Zaire species of Ebola kills somewhere between 40% to 90% of its victims, and usually upwards of 60% of infected people die. Only a handful of infectious diseases can...
An Infectious Disease Doctor Explains why Coronavirus Cases are Skyrocketing
After months of maintaining a plateau, new Covid-19 cases in the United States are skyrocketing in certain states: Texas, California, Arizona, and Florida, to name a few. Put simply, we are losing the war with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. What is going on? During an...
Did Covid-19 Come from a Lab? Was it Deliberate Bioterrorism? A Biodefense Expert Explores the Clues
Mother nature is a very efficient “bioterrorist.” We have seen this time and time again as new diseases have emerged, like Ebola, SARS, and henipaviruses. During the current pandemic, it’s been alleged that people created a new pathogen in the Wuhan lab - and even...
Why America’s Nurses Were Not Prepared for the Coronavirus Pandemic
As Covid-19 continues to spread across the United States, it has become evident that the country was woefully unprepared to staff, mobilize and protect our nation’s nurses in order to meet the surge of patients presenting with a severe and contagious respiratory...
Can You Get Covid-19 Twice? An Infectious Disease Doctor Explores The Possibility
Whenever I lecture on the Covid-19 outbreak, someone always asks me, “Can I get infected twice?” This is a natural concern. After all, if someone suffers through the prolonged fever, hacking cough, and profound weakness and misery caused by the virus, one small...
Scientists Researching Type of Coronavirus in Uganda
Dr. Julius Lutwama comments on the rapid variations emerging in the COVID-19 outbreak. Read the story by Tonny Abet published in the Monitor