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AI’s infiltration of pharma: How COVID-19 accelerated change

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In January, Google DeepMind debuted AlphaFold, a deep-learning system that predicts the structure of several under-studied proteins, including those associated with COVID-19. These chatbots can nurse and triage patients. In the future we could see virtual nursing assistants become commonplace to support care.

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Research Roundup: Healthcare Workers Highest Risk for COVID-19 and More

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A study out of Rutgers University found that healthcare staffers, especially nurses, have a higher prevalence of COVID-19 than non-healthcare workers. Of the 40 healthcare workers who tested positive of the study group, 25 were nurses. It may also improve the immune response that protects the connections between neurons.

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Flu Vaccine May Offer Unexpected Health Benefits Aside from Immunity

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As with older adults, the same percentage of nursing home residents were vaccinated, while 9.5 Providing people with a flu vaccine may be a safe way to introduce those proteins that could help prepare the body to fight off the disease. percent of the general population received the flu vaccine that year, just 1.8

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Emotional empathy is driving brand equity

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million to small businesses to support the Local Initiatives Support Corporation and has offered special prices for nurses and teachers. One Pfizer brand getting plenty of attention is Xeljanz, their blockbuster anti-JAK rheumatoid arthritis pill that could damp down the massive immune response that overwhelms some COVID-19 patients.

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Regeneron Announces Encouraging Initial Data from COVID-19 Antibody Cocktail Trial in Hospitalized Patients on Low-flow Oxygen

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The analysis was prospectively designed to focus on patients who had not yet mounted their own immune response to SARS-CoV-2 (i.e., Nursing Mothers: There is currently no clinical experience in use of casirivimab and imdevimab injection in COVID-19 patients who are breastfeeding. futility analysis). .

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New England Journal of Medicine Publishes Positive Initial Regeneron Antibody Cocktail Results in Non-hospitalized Patients with COVID-19

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To develop this novel medicine, Regeneron scientists evaluated thousands of fully-human antibodies produced by the company’s VelocImmune ® mice, which have been genetically modified to have a human immune system, as well as antibodies identified from humans who have recovered from COVID-19.

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Regeneron’s Casirivimab and Imdevimab Antibody Cocktail for COVID-19 is First Combination Therapy to Receive FDA Emergency Use Authorization

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The clinical evidence from Regeneron’s outpatient trial suggests that monoclonal antibodies such as casirivimab and imdevimab have the greatest benefit when given early after diagnosis and in patients who have not yet mounted their own immune response or who have high viral load. About Regeneron.