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Problem at Roche warehouse raises fears over UK COVID tests

October 7, 2020
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LONDON (AP) — Swiss pharmaceutical firm Roche said Wednesday that problems at a U.K. warehouse are delaying shipments of testing products to clinics and hospitals, triggering concerns that COVID-19 testing may be disrupted as infection rates rise around Britain.

Roche informed doctors about the problem at its U.K. distribution center in Sussex, southern England, in a letter that advised customers to “prioritize essential services only.”

Roche said the problem arose after it moved to a new automatic warehouse in September.

The company said that it was “prioritizing the dispatch of COVID-19 PCR and antibody tests and doing everything we can to ensure there is no impact on the supply of these” to the National Health Service.


The glitch affects materials needed to conduct blood tests and screening for diseases including diabetes and cancer. Roche said it could take two weeks to fix the problem.

British doctors have already raised concerns

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Ethicists say Trump special treatment raises fairness issues

October 7, 2020
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The special treatment President Donald Trump received to access an experimental COVID-19 drug raises fairness issues that start with the flawed health care system many Americans endure and end with the public’s right to know more about his condition, ethics and medical experts say.

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. revealed on Tuesday how rare it was for anyone to get the drug it gave Trump outside of studies testing its safety and effectiveness. The drug, which supplies antibodies to help the immune system clear the coronavirus, is widely viewed as very promising.

Trump also received the antiviral remdesivir and the steroid dexamethasone, and it’s impossible to know whether any of these drugs did him any good.

“He deserves special treatment by virtue of his office,” said George Annas, who heads Boston University’s center for law and health ethics. “The question is whether it’s good treatment.”

These drugs are unproven for mild illness

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Pizza-making robot startup Picnic raises $3M as pandemic puts spotlight on food automation

October 6, 2020
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Picnic’s pizza-making robot at CES earlier this year. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper)

Seattle startup Picnic raised an additional $3 million from existing investors as it gears up for a commercial rollout of its pizza-making robot.

Vulcan Capital, Flying Fish Partners, Creative Ventures, Arnold Venture Group, and others put more money behind Picnic, known for its automated food preparation device that can churn out up to 300 12-inch customized pizzas per hour. It follows a $5 million seed round in November.

The fresh cash will be used for product development, response to customer interest, new hires, and marketing. The company has seen increased demand for its machine during the pandemic from customers looking for ways to prepare food with less contact.

“This work is important because we’re supporting struggling restaurants who are looking for any advantage that will help them weather the storm of losing 60% of their sales,” CEO

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Donald Trump ‘Gasping for Air’ Video Raises Questions About President’s Health

October 6, 2020
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After President Donald Trump returned to the White House following his stay in the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, many social media users commented that he appeared to be struggling to breathe in footage of him standing on the Truman Balcony of the White House just after his arrival.



a man wearing a suit and tie: President Donald Trump stands on the Truman Balcony after returning to the White House from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on October 5.

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President Donald Trump stands on the Truman Balcony after returning to the White House from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on October 5.

Though Trump “may not entirely be out of the woods yet,” the president was discharged from the hospital as he “met or exceeded all standard hospital discharge criteria,” Dr. Sean Conley, the president’s physician, said at a press briefing Monday joined by the medical team treating the president.

Responding to the footage of Trump on the balcony, Congressman Ted Lieu, representative for California’s 33rd congressional district, tweeted: “If a picture is worth

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Trump steroid treatment for COVID-19 raises potential side effect risk

October 6, 2020
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By Carl O’Donnell and Deena Beasley

(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is being treated for COVID-19 with a steroid that is recommended for severe cases of the illness and that comes with risks of serious side effects, including mood swings, aggression and confusion.

Trump’s medical team on Sunday said the president was started on dexamethasone, a generic steroid long and widely used to reduce inflammation associated with other diseases. The steroid was begun after Trump experienced low oxygen levels.

White House officials have painted a rosy picture of Trump’s condition, saying he could be discharged from the hospital as soon as Monday. But dexamethasone has typically been reserved for more serious cases.

A study in June that was hailed as a breakthrough showed that use of the steroid reduced death rates by around a third among the most severely ill hospitalized COVID-19 patients.

Dexamethasone is used to treat immune

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Trump’s COVID-19 treatment raises red flags in medical community

October 6, 2020
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Overlake Medical Center’s director of pulmonary care said the medicine President Trump is being given is reserved for COVID-19 patients needing oxygen.

BELLEVUE, Wash. — President Donald Trump briefly ventured out in a motorcade on Sunday to salute cheering supporters outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, a move that disregarded precautions meant to contain the deadly virus that has forced his hospitalization and killed more than 209,000 Americans.

“They’ve been out there for a long time and they’ve got Trump flags – they love our country,” Trump said in a Twitter video.

But the move drew criticism on social media about the president putting those in the SUV with him at risk of contracting the virus. Secret Service agents inside the vehicle could be seen in masks and other protective gear.

The president tweeted that he would be discharged Monday night from the military hospital. White House officials said

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Seattle startup HDT Bio raises $3M to support development of COVID-19 vaccine

October 5, 2020
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Steve Reed, CEO of HDT Bio. (HDT Bio Photo)

Seattle-based biotech company HDT Bio closed a seed round totaling roughly $3 million to support work on its COVID-19 vaccine candidate HDT-301.

Researchers from HDT Bio and the University of Washington in July published a rapid-release paper in the journal Science Translational Medicine reporting on promising early results from the vaccine as tested in mice and non-human primates.

HDT Bio’s team includes scientists focused in earlier phases of research, and the new funding will allow them to add staff who have experience in clinical disease trials, according to the company.

HDT-301 is a cutting-edge, replicating RNA vaccine. In this approach to preventing illness, the vaccine contains a string of RNA from the virus, which cells turn into protein, triggering an immune response. In traditional vaccines, the targeted virus or pathogen is inactivated and then injected into the body.

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Why The New Apple Watch Series 6 Raises Questions Around Data Ownership And Healthcare Outcomes

October 5, 2020
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In a year where healthcare and wellness took precedent in all of our lives, Apple’s
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 September keynote – where the company reveals new products and services – had the same focus. The big news centered around two key announcements: the launch of the Watch Series 6 and a new fitness service called Apple Fitness +.

These announcements demonstrate Apple’s continued activity in the more than $4-trillion-dollar global wellness market. However, when examined as part of a series of investments in research and partnerships with healthcare organizations, Apple’s new products signal a bigger play. The company is poised to take a bite from an even larger industry slated to be valued at more than 10 trillion dollars by

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Trump’s photo op raises new questions about how seriously he takes the virus

October 5, 2020
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In the midst of an aggressive course of treatment for coronavirus, President Donald Trump left the hospital with his security detail Sunday so he could ride in an SUV past supporters cheering him on outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.



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The short trip, where Trump waved to his supporters through the window while wearing a mask in the back of his SUV, was an attempted show of strength that displayed the President’s questionable judgment, his willingness to endanger his staff and the fact that he still does not seem to comprehend the seriousness of a highly contagious and deadly disease.

An attending physician at Walter Reed harshly criticized Trump’s movement as a risk to the lives of Secret Service agents who accompanied him in his SUV.

“Every single person in the vehicle during that completely unnecessary Presidential ‘drive-by’ just now has to be quarantined for 14

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Papaya Global raises $40M for a payroll and HR platform aimed at global workforces

September 30, 2020
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Workforces are getting more global, and people who work day in, day out for organizations don’t always sit day in, day out in a single office, in a single country, to get a job done. Today, one of the startups building HR to help companies provision services for and manage those global workers better is announcing a funding round to capitalise on a surge in business that it has seen in the last year — spurred in no small part by the global health pandemic, the impact it’s had on travel and the way it has focused the minds of companies to get their cloud services and workforce management in order.

Papaya Global, an Israeli startup that provides cloud-based payroll, as well as hiring, onboarding and compliance services for organizations that employ full-time, part-time, or contractors outside of their home country, has raised $40 million in a Series B round

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