A University of Queensland coronavirus vaccine is showing promising results with UQ researchers one of up to 100 teams working to find a cure.
While there is currently no proven vaccine available, purported vaccines made up about 6 per cent of all listings. Personal protective equipment such as masks, sanitisers, gowns and gloves accounted for nearly half of all unique listings and more than a third of total listings. COVID-19 test kits, industrial thermometers and even a single ventilator, priced at $2000, were among the other products being sold.
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Fake vaccines, antivirals and purported cures for COVID-19 on dark webMany of the purported vaccines being sold were likely to be material stolen from trials under way, Professor Roderic Broadhurst says.
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Australian opera singer among those hit by COVID-19 blood clot mysteryWhen Australian opera singer Helena Dix was rushed to hospital with COVID-19 complications late last month, doctors told her she was famous - not for her high notes, but the size of the blood clot in her lungs. Nothing to do with her diet and weight right? COV-19 stepping in for another cause of death I see. Stop this bs fear mongering. What kind of virus supposedly 10 x worse than the regular flu only kills 88 out of 25,499,884 people? p_hannam Wow, if an opera singer's lungs struggle with Rona we mere mortals are in trouble
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Elective surgery performed on dozens of West Australians after month-long COVID-19 delay - ABC NewsAfter a 'draining' month-long wait, David Hiscock has been able to have the prostate cancer surgery which was put on hold when COVID-19 forced the cancellation of 'non-urgent' elective procedures across the country. How awesome! And the reason elective surgery was delayed was... media hysteria? Look at the figures & prove me wrong. I'll wait... How can cancer surgery be classed as 'elective?'
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Without a vaccine, experts turn to data to help treat COVID-19 patientsResearchers from universities around the country are collecting data about the most critically ill coronavirus patients in a bid to improve their treatment. rachelclun Critically ill, on ventilators, are at 90% risk of DYING... can't we push through the ASX:MSB SOLUTION, FOR THEM... As it APPEARS to reverse the stats, so 90% SURVIVE being on ventilator COVID19 SHUTDOWN demands we REDUCE death rate. coronavirus ANSWERS NEEDED, economy DYING. rachelclun 1. The data from overwhelmed hospitals/ICUs may not be reliable, or generalisable. 2. Australian ICU survival figures for COVID patients are vastly better than those reported for countries with mass fatalities. 1/ rachelclun bullshit !
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COVID-19 drug trial on health workers could begin in May | Sky News AustraliaInfectious diseases professor Marc Pellegrini says it would be bad to suggest the anti-malarial drug Hydroxychloroquine works against COVID-19, but it would be 'equally bad to suggest the drug doesn't work' until proper trials are conducted.\n\nProfessor Pelligrini is the infectious diseases and immune defence division head at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research where a clinical trial of Hydroxychloroquine on medical workers is expected to begin in May.\n\nHe told Sky News host Chris Kenny there is no data on the drug's use as a preventative agent, but there is a 'tiny bit of evidence around its use to treat COVID-19,' but there has not been 'robust testing of this drug in a clinical scenario'.\n\nThere is a huge amount of confusion around the drug's use to combat coronavirus and the 'only way to really solve it is through a proper, randomised, control, trial'.\n\nImage: AP Drinking bleach needs clinical trials too. There have been many many studies done on this all over the world and when combined with the antibiotic and zinc it has massive potential Sorry : This really doesn't make sense. Given the continuing expectations of low number of CV19 cases in Aust' how are they going to conduct studies on medical staff? For a start you need to two, one of them being control. To have a realistic sample size need say 100 people
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Young women catching COVID-19 more than any other group in NSWFemales in their twenties have been infected with COVID-19 more than any other demographic in New South Wales, according to latest state government data. 9News Why young only here ? Females may have been infected more (I'll believe it when full data comes out) but they obviously recover fully too, which is not what your tweet suggests. Stop fear porn.
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