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By Lise Josefsen Hermann For journalists covering the coronavirus pandemic, getting the story comes with life and death risks. There is perhaps no place where that is more apparent than in Guayaquil, where at least 12 reporters have died during the pandemic, and more...
Sunday was clean-up day in Cuenca following Saturday's floods. On Saturday, emergency responders were called to three neighborhoods to evacuate families as rivers overflowed following two days of heavy rain. According to the Cuenca fire and rescue service, damaging...
By Josh Bloom, Ph.D It's only one trial, and we don't even know if the report is correct. But a leaked draft report indicated that remdesivir was ineffective in its first controlled trial. Let's assume that this is true and we see the same from other trials. If so,...
By Sam Moxon Recent studies on COVID-19 mutation rates have revealed promising data that has given scientists across the globe a boost in the fight against the virus. The world is in the midst of a pandemic and casualties continue to mount across most nations. People...
A former pensions minister has warned that people over the age of 70 would “rebel” and “risk going to prison” if the government mandates they must continue self-isolating even after the lockdown has lifted. Baroness Ros Altmann, a Tory peer, told Sophy Ridge on Sky...
Yes, we are all still in lockdown, part of the "huddled masses yearning to breathe free," holding out hope that there really is light at the end of the tunnel. Some of our friends up north keep reminding us that we need to stop complaining, we are in paradise. So...
By John Koetsier Bye-bye shelter-in-place. Hello re-opening. Apple’s Mobility Trends report shows that traffic in the U.S. and other countries like Germany has pretty much doubled in the past three weeks. It had been down up to 72%. And location data provider...
There will be no changes to the Covid-19 health emergency restrictions in Cuenca until at least May 17. The city joined all but five of the country's 221 municipalities Friday in deciding to delay changes to the current "red light" status. "It is not yet the time to...
By Giovanni Cambizaca When I drive out of the city towards home, I often think that the foothills of the Cajas look a little bit like Switzerland. If I could put bells on the cows, the effect would be almost complete. When we think about Switzerland, I suppose...
Author’s note: Fat is a controversial topic but let’s cut through the chatter and delve into fat facts. This is the first of an updated three-part series about dietary fats. I'm not writing about "diets" per se, in this column. As reported by the Harvard School of...
By Anthony J. Castiglia, M.D. After reviewing the various information on the Covid-19 virus issues, I am submitting this opinion based on the content herein. The opinion is not to denigrate information currently gathered but rather to motivate inquiries to...
The coronavirus pandemic is likely to last as long as two years and won't be controlled until about two-thirds of the world's population is immune, a group of experts said in a report. Because of its ability to spread from people who don't appear to be ill, the virus...
Jueves, 30/4/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Alcaldes plantean que semáforo siga hasta el 17 de mayo (Mayors propose that traffic light continues until May 17) - Not one mayor in the country is willing to leave the isolation phase or...
American intelligence officials said Thursday that they agree with "the wide scientific consensus that the Covid-19 virus was not man-made or genetically modified," and that it was originally transmitted from animals to humans. Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump...
By Catesby Holmes All over the world – in China, Italy, the United States and Australia – many more men than women are dying from COVID-19. Why? Is it genes, hormones, the immune system – or behaviour – that makes men more susceptible to the disease? I see it as an...
A privately funded project aims to get Cuenca and Azuay Province back to "normal living and back to work" through mass Covid-19 testing of the population. The Trust Fund for Cuenca's Proof for Life is raising funds to administer tens-of-thousands of tests to allow the...
Miércoles, 29/4/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Digital publications - The Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar has put books and magazines on line at http://repositorio.uasb.edu.ec. The material is in the area of law and society and includes...
By Dave Sherwood Chile will push ahead with previously announced “release certificates” for recovered COVID-19 patients despite a World Health Organization warning that there was no evidence they are protected from a second coronavirus infection. Paula Daza,...
Telecoms engineers have told Radio 1 Newsbeat they're being threatened and harassed by people who believe they're working on 5G, which has been wrongly linked to coronavirus. Claims about any link have been branded complete rubbish by scientists. But the union and...
Researchers at a Hong Kong university say they have developed an antiviral coating which could provide 90 days of “significant” protection against bacteria and viruses such as the one causing COVID-19. The coating, called MAP-1, took 10 years to develop and can be...
