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43 new Covid-19 deaths confirmed in Ireland, 724 new cases

Dr. Tony Holohan, the chief medical officer at the Department of Health, said health officials are "increasingly confident" the coronavirus pandemic was being...

Quality Care offers COVID-19 testing on site

The tests look for two kinds of antibodies: immunoglobulin M (IgM) and G (IgG). "So, the initial antibody is the IGM and that's the one that will start to devel...

Social distancing may be needed until 2022

Harvard researchers said that they project that recurrent wintertime outbreaks will likely continue. The researchers also say the United States could see...

Expert says United Kingdom likely has Europe’s highest virus death rate

Under questioning from lawmakers, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the rate of deaths due to COVID-19 in care homes was higher than 2%, adding he was concer...

Ontario Hospitals ready to share resources in COVID-19 fight

There have now been 8,961 cases of COVID-19 confirmed through lab testing in Ontario. The death toll increased today by 38 deaths, yesterday was the highest o...

Coronavirus: Sweden's Princess Sofia dons scrubs to help healthcare

Prince Carl Philip's wife, 35, was pictured wearing blue and white scrubs on her first day at work at Sophiahemmet hospital in Stockholm on Thursday. "In the c...

The COVID-19 vaccine may have already existed for 100 years

The only vaccine, BCG , is used mainly in high-risk areas to protect babies from one form of the disease. Researchers believe it is too early to tell if it h...

Dr. Oz Steps In It With Coronavirus Comments

Any, you know, any life is a life lost, but...that might be a tradeoff some folks would consider". It probably didn't help that Oz went on Fox & Friends Thurs...

Uganda: COVID-19 Recoveries Rise to 20 as 8 Patients are Discharged

However, DAILY POST reported yesterday that the Enugu State Ministry of Health announced that one patient had been discharged. According to a modelling study ...

China: Wuhan revises coronavirus death toll up by 50%

What was the update? . For weeks, the response of western countries to the coronavirus crisis was nearly entirely informed by figures produced by China. "We ...

70 coronavirus vaccines are in development globally

Sorrento Therapeutics is in the process of creating three vaccines and is hoping to have at least one ready by the end of the year. In the global race to...

Penn State Health using blood from recovered patients to treat COVID-19

An expanded access program allows access to certain investigational new drugs or therapies, like convalescent plasma, and is made available outside of clinical ...

Drug Seems to Be Helping 'Severe' Coronavirus Patients

The researcher, infectious disease professor Kathleen Mullane, said that most patients had been discharged from the hospital and only two had died, according to...

Sweden’s Princess Sofia joins Stockholm hospital to help medical professionals

Sofia - wife to Prince Carl Philip - has worked closely with the hospital in the past, serving as Honorary Chair since 2016 . The princess' role won't invo...

COVID-19 to have 'profound' mental health fallout

The 24 report authors write: "It is already evident that the direct and indirect psychological and social effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19)...

COVID-19: Why Americans may stay at home till 2022 - Harvard researchers

Chan School of Public Health. The study was the first of its kind to use data from two other closely related coronaviruses , the HKU1 and the OC43, to pred...

Two more cases of COVID-19 reported in northern B.C.

Recently, a movement was afoot to get Fluevog to create a shoe named for Henry, and today the designer announced he's doing just that. There are now four peop...

First Saliva Test for COVID-19 Approved by FDA

This is the first diagnostic for SARS-CoV-2 infection which uses a saliva-based collection method to be granted authorization by the FDA. New rapid-response t...

Province provides additional $53 million for mental health supports

As reported by Medscape Medical News , a recent national survey by the American Psychiatric Association showed COVID-19 is seriously affecting Americans' men...

Maharashtra, Delhi and TN top three states for corona casses in India

Of the total 392 deaths, Maharashtra tops the tally with 178 fatalities, followed by Madhya Pradesh at 53, Delhi and Gujarat at 30 each and Telengana at 18. On ...

Premier calls on doctors to help at understaffed long-term care homes

There are 1,018 people being treated for COVID-19 in Quebec hospitals as of Thursday, up 34 from the 984 reported Wednesday; of those in a hospital, 209 are in ...

Social distancing due to COVID-19 necessary into 2022

So in the absence of other interventions we're seeing this resurgence in COVID-19, which could lead to restarting social distancing . Their study would also ...

197 dead of COVID-19; 1,121 hospitalized

Officers were investigating a tip about a corpse in a shed. Outlining a timetable of events, Perschilli said that late Saturday that authorities received a re...

Differences between the Brazilian and S.D. hydroxychloroquine drug trials

While lab studies had earlier shown promising results for HCQ in this regard, the scientists said their current findings are contrary. It also shows no signs ...

Prisma Health blood drive created to help COVID-19 patients

The researchers used modeling systems to estimate viral transmission and found that 44% of the coronavirus cases were transmitted during the pre-symptomatic sta...

United States scientists warn social distancing may have to remain till 2022

The study , published in the journal Science , uses data from recorded cases of COVID-19 and other types of coronaviruses that previously caused outbreaks. ...

Elon Musk's promised ventilators never delivered to California hospitals, governor's office says

Gavin Newsom hailed as "heroic". Discussing whether Musk's tweet was representing Tesla , Chen wrote that Musk "was in fact speaking as the CEO of Tesla w...

India's COVID-19 tally mounts to 13,387; 437 fatalities

West Bengal has registered seven deaths. With 1,076 new COVID-19 cases reported in the last 24 hours, India's tally of coronavirus cases has risen to 11,439, ...

Coronavirus: Eight residents die of suspected COVID-19 at Merseyside care home

England's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty said 13.5% of care homes have been affected by the virus , admitting that he would like to see testing i...

Lockdown to continue for at least three more weeks

Current restrictions on movement of people within the United Kingdom to try and contain the spread of the coronavirus will remain in force for at least a furthe...