WHO launches a chatbot on Facebook Messenger to combat COVID-19 misinformation

Published on April 20, 2020

In an effort to better inform the world about CODIV-19, the WHO has launched a Facebook Messenger version of its WHO Health Alert platform – offering instant and accurate information about COVID-19– via Facebook’s global reach. WHO

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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation approach to COVID-19 in Africa

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The bulk of the work has been focused since the outbreak are helping stand up Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs), working with partners like the World Bank Group and the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa. They’ve also assisted in scaling up local disease surveillance and testing in the past several weeks. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Investigational chimp adenovirus MERS-CoV vaccine protects monkeys

April 20, 2020
An investigational vaccine called ChAdOx1 MERS protected two groups of rhesus macaques from disease caused by Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). ChAdOx1 MERS, which uses a replication-deficient chimpanzee adenovirus to deliver a MERS-CoV protein in recipients, also worked against six different strains of MERS-CoV when tested in mice as a single vaccination. NIH