Pandemic Timeline

Month: February 2021

Morningside Foundation gifts $500,000 to Emory University

Emory University and the Morningside Foundation have deepened their long partnership by collaborating on a multidisciplinary international student competition aimed at addressing real-world, critical global health challenges. The Morningside Foundation has awarded a $500,000 grant to support the Emory Global Health Institute’s (EGHI) International Emory Global Health Case Competition. The contest has been renamed the…

Antibody-Dependent Enhancement (ADE)

ADE is also called Immune Enhancement or Pathogenic Priming. It is an overpriming of the immune system so that when the person is exposed again to a general coronavirus in the environment such as the common cold, the body may overreact. This problem was seen with vaccines produced for SARS-CoV-1 back in 2005 in the…