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Battling COVID: Weekly Update

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

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Illustrative image: A lab technician processes blood samples. (AP/Taimy Alvarez)

Optimism over Pfizer vaccine bodes well for Israel’s COVID shot, experts say

By Nathan Jeffay

Israeli virologists heartened by fact American immunization uses similar tech to homegrown effort, targets the same protein on coronavirus

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the inauguration of a COVID-19 rapid testing center at Ben Gurion International Airport in Lod on November 9, 2020. (Atef Safadi/ Pool/AFP)

Netanyahu hails Pfizer breakthrough, says in talks to bring vaccine to Israel

By ToI Staff and AP

A new vaccine on display at the Nikolai Gamaleya National Center of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Moscow, Russia, August 6, 2020. (Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr/ Russian Direct Investment Fund via AP)

Hadassah hospital orders 1.5 million as-yet-unproven Russian virus vaccines

Wally the llama, source of llama antibodies for COVID-19. (courtesy of Dina Schneidman-Duhovny)

Wally the llama’s antibodies, analyzed in J’lem, may help millions through COVID

By Nathan Jeffay

‘They are highly potent,’ says Israeli researcher who scrutinized the Massachusetts llama’s ‘nanobodies’ to pave the way for an inhaler intended to help patients fight virus

Mask-clad Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with a coronavirus swab sampling booth technician during the inauguration of a COVID-19 coronavirus rapid testing center at Ben Gurion International Airport in Lod on November 9, 2020. (ATEF SAFADI / POOL / AFP)

Israel opens virus testing center at Ben Gurion Airport

By AFP

Travelers can now give samples on-site, with option for express or slower testing; Netanyahu inaugurates lab but declines test: ‘I gave at the office’

Culled mink in Karup, Denmark, on November 8, 2020. (Bo Amstrup/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP/Denmark OUT)

3 who arrived from Denmark said showing symptoms amid mink virus mutation scare

By ToI Staff and AFP

Vials of a potential coronavirus vaccine are seen on an assembly line, in a photograph released by the Israel Institute for Biological Research, on October 25, 2020. (Defense Ministry)

How long will it take for coronavirus vaccines to get to market?

By LAURAN NEERGAARD

Analysis

Lockdown accelerates aging, causes ‘deterioration that can kill’ – geriatrician

Isolation is fast eroding cognitive function, memory and physical ability, says top Jerusalem doctor, urging government to overhaul attitude to elderly

A man in isolation at home during the pandemic (PIKSEL via iStock by Getty Images)

People shop on the first day of the reopening of street shops on Jaffa Street in downtown Jerusalem on November 8, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Street shops reopen after long closure, but some businesses succumb to virus

Illustrative: Police and medical personnel at the scene where police were investigating a suspected murder-suicide in Petah Tikva, January 17, 2020. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Medics warn of rise in deaths by suicide, with 13 in past 11 days

Illustrative image: Wedding rings with facemasks (iStock)

Couple at illegal wedding had COVID-19, didn’t know; 3 guests died — TV report

Former deputy Shin Bet chief said among fatalities linked to event in September, which was held against health rules; super-spreading couple was pre-symptomatic

Illustrative photo of a banquet buffet. (KatarzynaBialasiewicz, istockphoto, Getty Images)

Food waste ‘could have funded a fifth of Israel’s COVID-19 aid budget’ – expert

Israel continues to dump a third of food it produces, says report by Leket Israel and Environment Ministry; waste contributes 6% of country’s global warming gases

An employee working at Nirometal Ltd., a maker of equipment for professional kitchens; Nov. 5, 2020 (Courtesy)

Israel’s coronavirus unpaid-leave plan may keep people jobless, experts warn

By Shoshanna Solomon

US President Donald Trump waves to supporters as he departs after playing golf at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling Va., Sunday Nov. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Trump accuses FDA, Pfizer of deliberately delaying vaccine news until after vote

By ToI Staff and AP

President falsely suggests federal body, drugmaker conspired with Democrats to postpone announcement because they ‘didn’t want to have me get a Vaccine WIN’

Exterior view of the headquarters of the German biotechnology company "BioNTech" pictured in Mainz, Germany, Monday, Nov. 9, 2020. (Arne Dedert/dpa via AP)

From our archivesMeet BioNTech, the German upstart behind the Pfizer COVID vaccine technology

By Sophie MAKRIS

Sao Paulo Governor Joao Doria, left, and Butantan Institute Director Dimas Covas hold up a box of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine that is being tested in partnership with China's pharmaceutical company Sinovac during a press conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Brazil’s health regulator suspends Chinese-made vaccine trials

By Mauricio SAVARESE and David Biller

More Headlines

A man turns on LED candles at a memorial for Israel's victims of COVID-19, in Jerusalem, November 8, 2020. (AP Photo/ Oded Balilty)

Global coronavirus cases top 50 million, with 1.2 million dead

By AP

In this October 4, 2020, photo, an Orthodox Jewish family crosses a street during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot in the Borough Park neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Restrictions on Brooklyn Jewish neighborhoods reduced as COVID-19 rates drop

This photo provided by Eli Lilly shows the drug bamlanivimab. On Monday, November 9, 2020, the Food and Drug Administration cleared emergency use of bamlanivimab, the first antibody drug to help the immune system fight COVID-19. The drug is for people 12 and older with mild or moderate COVID-19 not requiring hospitalization. (Courtesy of Eli Lilly via AP)

US approves first emergency use of a COVID-19 antibody drug

By MATTHEW PERRONE

A technician demonstrates on an airport staffer how samples are taken, at a new on-site COVID-19 testing facility at Ben Gurion International Airport, November 9, 2020. (Maya Alleruzzo/AP)

Number of active virus patients again rises over 8,000 as 710 new cases found

People stand in line outside stores in Jerusalem after they were permitted to reopen following a national lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak, on November 8, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Health official warns no further easing of lockdown if virus spread keeps rising

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Itamar Grotto at a press conference about the coronavirus COVID-19, at the Health Ministry in Jerusalem on May 31, 2020. (Flash90)

Health Ministry deputy chief announces his resignation

Tomer Hertz (right) supervising a clinical trial for the new pooling method for coronavirus test labs (Dani Machlis/Ben Gurion University)

Israeli lab uses math hack to roll out speedy one-stage pooled virus test

By Nathan Jeffay

Hotels along the beach in the resort city of Eilat, October 21, 2015. (Moshe Shai/ FLASH90)

Mid-vote, health minister yanks bid to turn Eilat, Dead Sea into tourist islands

Prof. Ronni Gamzu speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at his office near the central Israeli city of Lod, September 24, 2020 (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Virus czar says he would have liked to force Israelis to get tested

Israeli police officers try to contain a crowd of yeshiva students during the funeral of late Rabbi David Feinstein on November 9, 2020, in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Flouting rules, thousands attend Jerusalem funeral for US Rabbi Dovid Feinstein

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