Pandemic Timeline

Month: November 2020

Johns Hopkins researchers introduce “Theragrippers”

Inspired by a parasitic worm, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine and Johns Hopkins Engineering team up to design “theragrippers” to deliver medicine to GI tract. Problem: extended-release drugs pass too quickly thru GI tract. Solution: Johns Hopkins Medicine and Johns Hopkins Engineering design dust-sized machines that snap to colonic walls and release medicine gradually. Once…

Patent US11107588: Methods and systems of prioritizing treatments, vaccination, testing and/or activities while protecting the privacy of individuals

This Pfizer patent application was approved August 31st, 2021, and is the very first patent that shows up in a list of over 18500 for the purpose of remote contact tracing of all vaccinated humans worldwide who will be or are now connected to the “internet of things” by a quantum link of pulsating microwave…