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Shah said the patient’s battle with COVID-19 seriously damaged his lungs and may have also further damaged his heart. By September, the patient was critically ill with advanced heart and lung disease. He was referred to VUMC from the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

“He was slipping fast, in and out of the hospital and certainly by the time we operated on him, his heart was really done,” Shah said.

Bacchetta and Shah performed the transplant using both lungs and the heart from the same donor, which the hospital says is standard in dual transplants. VUMC says the organs were from a donor who had hepatitis C, and that the hospital is one of the first centers to use such organs for patients awaiting heart and lung transplants.

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An online app called Amica is now using artificial intelligence to help separating couples make parenting arrangements and divide their assets.

For many people, the coronavirus pandemic has put even the strongest of relationships to the test. A May survey conducted by Relationships Australia found 42% of 739 respondents experienced a negative change in their relationship with their partner under lockdown restrictions.

There has also been a surge in the number of couples seeking separation advice. The Australian government has backed the use of Amica for those in such circumstances. The chatbot uses artificial intelligence (AI) to make suggestions for how splitting couples can divide their money and property based on their circumstances.

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“Our DIY Covid-19 DNA vaccine showed neutralizing antibodies in all three individuals, Me, David Ishee Dariia Dantseva

That was exciting but our goal was to teach people how to test expression in human cells, perform ELISAs &c. and that was more important.

People wrongly think I am completely against the FDA. I’m not. They are good at what they do i.e. helping drug companies make money by making mass produced drugs that help the most amount of people and hurt the least amount of people.

The drug approval process is long and slow so people don’t get hurt. But in a pandemic, time equals lives lost and while they are moving fast on the FDA timescale it is slow on the human lives timescale.

Still there is so much more to drug development including individual outcomes that the FDA is terrible with.

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The world now has more than 36 million cases of the coronavirus.

According to figures compiled by Johns Hopkins University’s coronavirus tracking program, 36,166,574 people across the globe have been diagnosed with COVID-19, including more than 1 million deaths.

The United States leads in both categories with 7.5 million cases and nearly 212,000 deaths. India is a close second in the total number of cases with 6.8 million, while Brazil topped the 5 million mark Wednesday.

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