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Mar 20, 2020

Check Out The Senators Who Voted Against the Coronavirus Relief Package on Wednesday

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Marsha Blackburn (R-TN); Jim Inhofe (R-OK); James Lankford (R-OK); Mike Lee (R-UT); Rand Paul (R-KY); Ben Sasse (R-NE); Tim Scott (R-SC), and Ron Johnson (R-WI).

Also presented without comment: Sasse and Inhofe will run for re-election this fall.

Mar 20, 2020

Vitamin D supplementation to prevent acute respiratory tract infections: systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data

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Vitamin D may be effective in helping to prevent Covid-19:


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Mar 20, 2020

Teva donates potential coronavirus treatment to hospitals across the US

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

This Is-Real!!! Israeli pharmaceutical company, Teva, has announced that they will donate more than 6 million tablets through wholesalers to hospitals across the United States, from March 31.


As the coronavirus is spreading across the world, and the number of people infected is increasing everyday, there is an urgent need to find treatments against COVID-19 that could reduce complications and improve recovery. Recently, the Israeli Health Ministry has approved multiple experiment treatments, and companies worldwide are attempting to determine what could be used to treat COVID-19.

As such, Israeli pharmaceutical company, Teva, has announced that they will donate more than 6 million doses of hydroxychloroquine sulfate tablets through wholesalers to hospitals across the United States, from March 31. Over 10 million tablets are expected to be shipped within a month.

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Mar 20, 2020

Teva to send US millions of malaria pills with potential to help COVID-19

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Hydroxychloroquine one of several drugs cited in recent days as being possibly effective against coronavirus; Israeli firm says it will provide as many as possible at no cost.

The company said six million doses will be delivered to US hospitals by March 31, and more than ten million in a month.


Israeli generic drug giant Teva announced Friday that it will provide ten million doses of its anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine, which could potentially prove effective in fighting the coronavirus pandemic, to US hospitals free of charge. The company said six million doses will be delivered to US hospitals by March 31, and more than ten million in a month. “We are committed to helping to supply as many tablets as possible as demand for this treatment accelerates at no cost,” Teva executive vice president Brendan O’Grady said. Get The Times of Israel’s Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up.

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Mar 20, 2020

Scientists Develop World’s First ‘Unhackable’ Encryption System

Posted by in categories: computing, encryption

Circa 2019


Makers of Titanic claimed that it is ‘unsinkable’ and we know how it went down in history. Now, researchers from the University of St Andrews have claimed to have developed an ‘unhackable’ encryption system that stores data in the form of light.

The chip designed by the researchers generates one-time-only key when data is sent through it. The data is stored as light and passed through a specially designed chip that bends and refracts the light to scramble the information.

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Mar 20, 2020

Magnetars are the most powerful magnets in the universe

Posted by in categories: cosmology, nuclear energy

:ooooo These could make great fusion devices.


Magnetars are the bizarre super-dense remnants of supernova explosions and the strongest magnets known in the universe.

Mar 20, 2020

The Posthuman Enlightenment

Posted by in category: neuroscience

https://paper.li/e-1437691924


What does it take to think beyond the human? Can we imagine our human selves in other lives? And should we? While contemporary answers to these questions have highlighted the desirability and necessity of imagining ourselves as animals, plants, and even objects, others argue that such acts of the imagination are fundamentally flawed. The human, Lynn Festa argues in Fiction without Humanity, is really all we get access to.

The 21st century has seen the rise of what are often lumped together as a variety of “posthumanist” critical approaches: thing theory and “new materialism” (see Bill Brown’s Other Things and Jane Bennett’s Vibrant Matter), animal studies (see Jacques Derrida’s The Animal That Therefore I Am and Donna Haraway’s When Species Meet), and even a burgeoning plant studies (see Jeffrey T. Nealon’s Plant Theory: Biopower and Vegetable Life). Each of these approaches has asked us to broaden the range of what Miguel Tamen calls “interpretable objects” well beyond the human; to consider what forms of signification, consciousness, or meaning might belong to animals, plants, and objects.1

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Mar 20, 2020

Chloroquine for the 2019 novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2

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2020, Antiviral Research

Mar 20, 2020

How the Coronavirus May Force Doctors to Decide Who Can Live and Who Dies

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

In the face of overwhelming demand and limited resources, health care would need to be rationed, with agonizing decisions.

Mar 20, 2020

Colorado distilleries switch to making hand sanitizer, and they’re giving it away free

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As the coronavirus spreads through Colorado, local distilleries like Spirit Hound have begun making hand sanitizer.