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Nigeria born Babafemi Taiwo leading US search for COVID-19 drug

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began over four months ago, about 3.6 million people have been infected while 250,000 have died from the disease globally. For what started as a novel coronavirus largely unknown, scientists and countries world over still battle in search of drugs and vaccines to save human lives.

At the heart of the United States efforts to find a drug for COVID-19 is Babafemi Taiwo, a Nigerian-born doctor who played a leading role in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) clinical trial of remdesivir, an antiviral drug, which has now been found to be effective in treating COVID-19 patients.

As chief of infectious diseases at Northwestern Medicine, Taiwo, a professor of medicine, was in charge of Northwestern’s branch of the study which began few months ago. That feat was, however, only one of his numerous contributions to healthcare in the US and globally.

In 2005, Taiwo started out as an infectious diseases fellow at Northwestern Medicine, established to “consistently high standards of quality, academic and research excellence, cost-effectiveness and patient satisfaction, where the patient comes first.”

After joining the health centre, he rose through the ranks, publishing a lot of scholarly articles most of which proffered solutions to various infectious diseases ravaging the world. The high point of his time at Northwestern was in 2006 when he was named to lead its research and work as the chief of infectious diseases.

Taiwo had said: “Our goal in the Division of Infectious Diseases is to occupy the front line of patient-centred discovery in our field and deliver high-quality care and education every day.”

Douglas Vaughan, the institution’s head of medicine, described him as “an astute and respected clinician… an exceptionally effective educator, and an accomplished clinical investigator and international leader in anti-retroviral therapy and HIV-associated infectious maladies.”

GRADUATED FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN


Dr. Taiwo graduated from Nigeria’s first university in 1991.

Yes, you read that right. The medical doctor began his journey in Nigeria in the four walls of the University of Ibadan, where he obtained his medical degree in 1991. He then proceeded to Berkshire Medical Centre for his postgraduate resident training in internal medicine from where he finished in 1996 and in 2005, began his fellowship at the McGaw Medical Center at Northwestern University.

He currently holds board certification in internal medicine and infectious disease, and has published over 120 works on medicine and health.

Nigeria Amaka

Bilabong:
Nigeria Amaka

dnt start this tribal shiiit

devilmaycry:
dnt start this tribal shiiit

Over sabi... See how u jump into conclusion. Which tribe is Nigeria?

Dear COVID-19

It’s been over a month since you restricted all our activities, not minding what we all had in place prior to your outbreak. Initially i thought it was just a temporal stay, but days turned weeks, weeks turned months and we’re still waiting in uncertainty.

To say I’m not agitated on how things have turned out is laughable. I wish you never existed, at least not in my generation. What do you stand to benefit in The DEATHS, Those shocked businesses and business trips you’ve halted, those you’ve relieved off their jobs, the hunger and hardship you’ve brought, those exams you stopped not minding how well we’ve prepared for them.

But then I ask, will praying or lamenting bring a solution to this pandemic? “Tongue-tied” But I will keep praying for our front-liners.

Guns can kill but same guns can protect. Arrows can kill but can be used for hunting. Dear COVID-19, I ask again, among your numerous maladies, what advantage have you provided ? You’ve done enough, why not leave and allow us use the rest of the year in healing mentally, emotionally and physically? Living right now is scary. Dear Hunger you know we’ve come a long way, why not spare us for now while we focus on combating this stranger called COVID-19?

Where are the vaccines ? Oh Humanity! See what you’ve been reduced to. But there’s HOPE, whether sooner or later, Humanity will win the fight against this Virus

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Indeed when all these are over, I will appreciate life more and be down to earth. Because it’s obvious God is the giver of life and everyone is equal whether rich or poor. Caucasian or Negroid

so we heard ooo, may God support him.

The level of human resources we have in this this country is so astonishing but corruption would not allow them to express themselves.
I pray one day Nigeria will get the right leader she deserve.

Nigeria, a wonderful country misunderstood by its people, leaders and some other countries.
One day, just one day something will happen and other this will fall in place.