Do Monoclonal Antibodies Help COVID Patients?

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September 27, 2021

Medicine Do Monoclonal Antibodies Help COVID Patients? Experts explain what this treatment involves, who needs it and how to get it By Sara Reardon

Electronics All Small Electronics Should Have the Same Charging Ports, New E.U. Rule Says In a bid to reduce waste, a proposed regulation would require phones and other small electronics to switch to USB-C By Sophie Bushwick

Epidemiology Even Mild Cases of COVID May Leave a Mark on the Brain The new findings, although preliminary, are raising concerns about the potential long-term effects of COVID-19 By Jessica Bernard,The Conversation US

Agriculture Living 'Bee Fences' Protect Farmers from Elephants, and Vice Versa A string of hives between posts can fend off the pachyderms better than other deterrents, research shows By Cari Shane

Public Health The Pandemic's Hidden Toll Is Revealed in Excess Death Counts Many of the unexpected deaths in rural U.S. counties last year were not recorded as caused by COVID By Tanya Lewis,Amanda Montañez

Weather Hurricane Sam Is Latest Monster in Active Storm Season Tropical cyclones are becoming more intense, but not necessarily more frequent, with climate change By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Extraterrestrial Life How to Search for Life as We Don't Know It Much of astrobiology is focused on looking for organisms with chemistry similar to ours—but there could well be other kinds By Avi Loeb

Transportation 'Self-Driving' Cars Begin to Emerge from a Cloud of Hype Developers try to overcome a multitude of technical challenges before vehicles drive on their own By Steven E. Shladover

Consciousness Death, Physics and Wishful Thinking Fear of mortality might underlie physicists' fondness for the anthropic principle, multiverses, superdeterminism and other shaky ideas By John Horgan

Arts A Plot Twist for Climate Change, the Power of Occam's Razor, and Other New Books Recommendations from the editors of Scientific American By Amy Brady

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Why Monoclonal Antibody COVID Therapies Have Not Lived Up to Expectations The drugs used to treat Donald Trump have not been widely administered to other patients, but they still have a role to play By Carlos del Rio | May 2021

QUOTE OF THE DAY "Unfortunately, the vaccine has become so political that some people would prefer monoclonal antibodies because of the way they're being promoted...The vaccine is just so clearly a better step one." Susanne Doblecki-Lewis, infectious disease physician at the University of Miami

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