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Trump's beloved hydroxychloroquine actually worsens the coronavirus

On April 24, the Food and Drug Administration cautioned against the use of hydroxychloroquine "outside of the hospital setting or a clinical trial due to risk...

A hairstylist worked while symptomatic and exposed 91 people to coronavirus

The salon was allowed to operate under the now-expired "Stay Home Missouri" implemented by Republican Governor Mike Parson from April 6 until May 3. Goddard s...

Keep cleaning surfaces, but coronavirus mainly spreads person-to-person — CDC

From touching surfaces or objects . The guide previously stated the virus spreads by touching surfaces or objects. From animals to people . From people ...

President Trump Sides With Churches Asserting A Right To Reopen

As McEnany held the cheque to show it to the reporters on Friday, it not only had the Dollars 100,000 amount to be given to the HHS but also displayed the pre...

Drug touted by Trump as virus treatment increases death risk

The study examined 96,000 hospitalized coronavirus patients on six continents and found that people who took it had a higher risk of death compared to those ...

New CDC guidance states coronavirus "doesn't spread easily" from surfaces

The agency is clarifying its guidance after a change to its website triggered news reports. "Efforts are underway to address the knowledge gap of transmissi...

Sees First Case of Rare Childhood Syndrome Linked to COVID-19

Children have accounted for 5 per cent of COVID-19 cases in Canada, and one per cent of hospitalizations, Dr. Karim Kurji said. "Kawasaki syndrome does not ...

U.S. Justice Department backs lawsuit challenging IL coronavirus restrictions

Bailey, a Republican from Xenia, gained national attention earlier this month when he sued Pritzker , then won a temporary restraining order that exempted only...

Hydroxychloroquine ups death risk, warns Indian-origin researcher in Lancet study

The authors estimated that the drugs put patients at up to 45 per cent higher risk of dying from Covid-19 compared with underlying health issues. She reiterat...

Lawrence County among those going to green phase of reopening

All remaining counties-Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Lackawanna, Lancaster, Lehigh, Northampton, Montgomery, and Philadelphia-will be moved to yellow on June...

Brazil jumps to No. 2 in worldwide coronavirus cases, behind the US

Brazil overtook Russia Friday as the country with the second-highest number of coronavirus infections worldwide behind the United States , as the Americas emer...

Hydroxychloroquine shows no virus benefit, raises death risk

The drugs are approved for treating lupus and rheumatoid arthritis and for preventing and treating malaria, but no large rigorous tests have found them safe or ...

Overseas Health Workers Exempt From NHS Surcharge Fees

Former Conservative Party vice-chairman Sir Roger Gale had warned Mr Johnson that not to waive the current surcharge "would rightly be perceived as mean-spirite...

Human trials of British coronavirus vaccine to widen to 10000

The phase one trial involves giving vaccines in development to a limited number of people to see if it's safe and effective enough to move to wider trials. Bu...

No new cases of COVID-19 today

The case on Friday was linked to the St Margaret's Rest Home cluster in Auckland. The county also received nearly 1,994 diagnostic tests results for the nov...

World Health Organization says 80 million babies are missing out on routine childhood vaccines

Routine childhood immunizations in at least 68 countries have been put on hold due to the unprecedented spread of COVID-19 worldwide, making children under th...

Rare skinny gene predisposes some to being thin

All people in the study were considered to be "healthy, thin and normal weight", UBC said . In a study published Thursday in the journal Cell , a group of g...

CDC says virus does not spread easily from contaminated surfaces

The CDC says people should continue to clean and disinfect dirty surfaces that could be harboring the virus. 5 Live is KTLA's digital-only newscast and stre...

USA not to shut down in case of 2nd coronavirus wave

A church in Northern California that defied the governor's orders and held a service on Mother's Day was attended by a person who later tested positive for th...

Almost 200 more NI coronavirus deaths than previously reported

Separate analyses based on the date of death registration, shows that the provisional number of total deaths registered in Northern Ireland in the week ending 1...

China's COVID-19 vaccine trial shows promising results -- The Lancet

The study, conducted in Wuhan, China , by the Beijing Institute of Biotechnology tested different doses of the vaccine in 108 healthy adults who did not have t...

Hydroxychloroquine Linked to Deaths, Heart Risks in Covid Study

Mehra and his team analyzed data from more than 96,000 patients hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 - the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 illne...

On China, Voters Trust Joe Biden More Than Donald Trump

The poll, which recently surveyed more than 1,200 randomly selected registered voters, comes as Democratic and Republican leaders and the Trump administration h...

NYC physician who worked on frontlines dies of COVID-19

Prior to his death, Dr. Mahoney served his community for nearly 40 years and was nearing retirement when he chose to continue practicing in order to take COVID-...

Hydroxychloroquine linked to increased risk of death in COVID-19 patients

Kim, from Wisconsin, has taken the anti-malarial drug for 19 years to help treat the pain caused by her lupus. People sick enough to be hospitalized with the c...

New York Governor Cuomo Permits Resumption of Religious Gatherings, With Strict Restrictions

Daily new hospitalizations across New York state for the novel coronavirus are below rates seen prior to its March lockdown, further evidence the state hit hard...

Premier wants Ontario to be a global leader on COVID-19 research

Ontario's research will expand the global understanding of COVID-19 and further the capacity in the health care, artificial intelligence, and supply chain secto...

Trump Campaign To Unleashes Huge New Ad Campaign Against Biden

Those questioned ended up showing support for Biden at 48 percent, with 40 percent for Trump and a further 11 percent still said to be undecided. The exit pol...

Washington COVID-19 death toll may be higher

Because of the speed that DOH is reporting and processing deaths there's "a variation in the accuracy of it", Hutchinson said. "We do have some deaths that ar...

LA Death Toll from the Coronavirus Has Passed 2000

County Department of Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said at the daily press briefing. On Tuesday, at the second convening of the Los Angeles County...