USFDA Tuesday issued an emergency use authorisation to Lucira Health Inc.’s rapid-result Covid test, the first that can be used at home. Here's all you'd like to know about it.
While some Covid tests allow people to to mail in samples collected at home, this is the first that can be fully self-administered & provides results at home in 30 minutes or less.
At a time when the FDA needs the public’s trust more than ever, the US agency has been dragged into the political fray in a series of compounding incidents.
FDA's decision set off a media firestorm, with politicians, public-health officials & medical professionals insisting that the Trump administration was playing politics with science.
FDA had earlier said smokers may have worse outcomes from Covid-19, but hadn’t been explicit about whether that included chances of infection in the first place.
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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